Fourth of July movies: A few recommended titles that should help you temporarily escape current global madness Two thousand and seventeen has been a weirder-than-usual year on the already pretty weird Planet Earth. Unsurprisingly, this Fourth of July, the day the United States celebrates its Declaration of Independence from the British Empire, has been an unusual one as well. Instead of fireworks, (at least some) people's attention has been turned to missiles – more specifically, a carefully timed North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile test indicating that Kim Jong-un could theoretically gain (or could already have?) the capacity to strike North America with nuclear weapons. Then there were right-wing trolls & history-deficient Twitter users berating National Public Radio for tweeting the Declaration of Independence, 140 characters at a time. Besides, a few days ago the current U.S. president retweeted a video of himself body-slamming and choking a representation of CNN – courtesy of a gif originally created by a far-right Internet...
- 7/5/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Luise Rainer, a star of cinema's golden era who won back-to-back Oscars but then walked away from a glittering Hollywood career, has died. She was 104. Rainer, whose roles ranged from the 1930s German stage to television's The Love Boat, died Tuesday at her home in London from pneumonia, said her only daughter, Francesca Knittel-Bowyer. "She was bigger than life and can charm the birds out of the trees," Knittel-Bowyer said. "If you saw her, you'd never forget her." The big-eyed, apple-cheeked Rainer gained Hollywood immortality by becoming the first person to win an acting Academy Award in consecutive years, taking...
- 12/30/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Luise Rainer, the actress best known for her roles in The Good Earth (1937) and The Great Ziegfeld (1936), passed away in her London home on Tuesday. She was 104.
The German-born actress' daughter Francesca Knittel-Bowyer tells The Associated Press that her mother died of pneumonia. "She was bigger than life and can charm the birds out of the trees," she told AP following her mother's passing. "If you saw her, you'd never forget her.”
Photos: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years
Born Jan. 12, 1910, Rainer was acting in Germany before she was discovered by a talent scout from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and sent to Hollywood. Her first U.S. film was Escapade (1935), but it would be her next roles that would really put her on the map.
Rainer became the first actor to ever win two consecutive Academy Awards. She won for her roles as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld and O-Lan in The Good Earth. The only four...
The German-born actress' daughter Francesca Knittel-Bowyer tells The Associated Press that her mother died of pneumonia. "She was bigger than life and can charm the birds out of the trees," she told AP following her mother's passing. "If you saw her, you'd never forget her.”
Photos: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years
Born Jan. 12, 1910, Rainer was acting in Germany before she was discovered by a talent scout from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and sent to Hollywood. Her first U.S. film was Escapade (1935), but it would be her next roles that would really put her on the map.
Rainer became the first actor to ever win two consecutive Academy Awards. She won for her roles as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld and O-Lan in The Good Earth. The only four...
- 12/30/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Luise Rainer dies at age 104: Rainer was first consecutive Oscar winner, first two-time winner in acting categories and oldest surviving winner (photo: MGM star Luise Rainer in the mid-'30s.) The first consecutive Academy Award winner, the first two-time winner in the acting categories, and, at age 104, the oldest surviving Oscar winner as well, Luise Rainer (Best Actress for The Great Ziegfeld, 1936, and The Good Earth, 1937) died at her London apartment on December 30 -- nearly two weeks before her 105th birthday. Below is an article originally posted in January 2014, at the time Rainer turned 104. I'll be sharing more Luise Rainer news later on Tuesday. January 17, 2014: Inevitably, the Transformers movies' director Michael Bay (who recently had an on-camera "meltdown" after a teleprompter stopped working at the Consumer Electronics Show) and the Transformers movies' star Shia Labeouf (who was recently accused of plagiarism) were mentioned -- or rather, blasted, in...
- 12/30/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
William Powell, Myrna Loy Myrna Loy Q&A Pt.1: Typecasting, Favorite Movies Myrna Loy claims that before Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland took Warner Bros. to court, she fought her own studio — in Loy's case MGM. What was that about? And did Loy's stance impact her film career in any way? Loy went on strike against MGM in 1935, partly because she had been miscast in a film called Escapade [Loy was replaced by newcomer Luise Rainer], and partly because she wanted more vacation time and more money after hitting pay dirt as Nora Charles. She did win more money and more time off, but MGM continued to under-utilize her talents and to stick with safe bets in casting her. Myrna Loy the Activist. How was she an activist? How did she become involved in social/political activism? And how did that affect her film career? World War II was a turning point for her. She...
- 3/12/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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