Luise Rainer Net Worth is
$250,000

Mini Biography

Rainer returned to Holywood in the 1998 and 2013 Academy Honours wedding ceremony honoring previous Oscar winners and this year 2010 for the TCM Common Film Celebration. She was all smiles for the surveillance cameras, but her wounds hadn’t healed. “I hated Hollywood,” Rainer stated within an interview in 2001. “That is why I transformed my back onto it.” She acquired wanted to end up being Madame Currie, “but Mayer forbade me.” She wished to end up being Maria in “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” but Ingrid Bergman was presented with the function. “People discuss the 30s and 40s as an enjoyable experience, nonetheless it was also the glamour-puss period,” Rainer informed the Guardian paper in 1997. “I used to be hardly ever really that. Louis B. Mayer’s motto was, ‘Provide me an excellent looker and I’ll make her an celebrity,’ which if you ask me was an insult to my career.” Rainer’s frequently repeated accounts of her last ending up in Mayer may be the stuff of Hollywood tale. “Louis B. sent for me personally and stated, ‘I recognize that you intend to keep us?’ I stated, ‘Yes, Mr. Mayer, my resource is dry out.'” she stated, detailing that she had go out of motivation. “He viewed me and he stated, “What do you will need a resource for? Not have a movie director?” Rainer described, “What may i state? He appeared me at me for a long period, and he shipped his you’ll-never-work-in-Hollywood-again threat.” Rainer handled a dignified reply and remaining his office. Regardless of the brevity of her profession, Rainer earned a location in movie background as the to begin only five stars — Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Jason Robards and Tom Hanks who all adopted to earn consecutive Oscars. Rainer (pronounced rye-ner) was created January 12, 1910, in Dusseldorf, Germany. Later on explanations of her as the “Viennese teardrop” had been motivated by Mayer, who was simply Jewish and desired nothing in connection with Hitler’s Germany. Rainer’s dad was a well-to-do businessman and her mom was a pianist. Within an echo from the part Mayer would later on play in her existence, her dad dominated the family members. Her dad was infuriated by his daughter’s decision to be an celebrity. “He stated, ‘It is a minimal and vulgar occupation,” Rainer recalled to Vanity Good article writer Marie Brenner in 1998. “I had been thrown out of the home at age group 16 or 17, and I had formed to go on apples and eggs!” Fortunately, she experienced enormous skill, which quickly gained her a location in the stage in Germany and Austria, where she became a member of the theater business of renowned German stage movie director Utmost Reinhardt. By enough time she was 25 she have been discovered by an MGM skill scout and shortly found herself in the us putting your signature on a seven-year agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Rainer researched her British and strolled her dog in the seaside in Santa Monica. It had been using one such walk that she went into screenwriter Anita Loos, who informed her that Myrna Loy was falling out of “Escapade.” Within a short while the function in the 1935 film was Rainer’s. It had been the break the youthful celebrity required. Rainer’s “Escapade” co-star William Powell was therefore impressed with her that he informed Mayer, “You must star that female or I appear to be an idiot.” Rainer quickly became component of a Hollywood diadem that included Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Irene Dunne and Janet Gaynor. But she battled to find jobs that were worth her talent. In another of Hollywood’s even more well-known stories, Rainer had written the teary phone picture for “THE FANTASTIC Ziegfeld” but Mayer discovered it “dreary” and attempted to lower it. It really is broadly believed that picture clinched her initial Oscar. Mayer also compared her playing O-Lan, the part in “THE NICE Globe” that brought Rainer’s second Oscar. “He believed it was awful for a lady in her 20s to try out an old Chinese language female,” Rainer stated. Rather than the meaty functions she craved, Mayer solid her in films like 1938’s “The Plaything Wife,” which film critic Leonard Maltin referred to as an “inconsequential confection.” Like her profession, Rainer’s 1937 relationship to Clifford Odets, whom she 1st met in the Brownish Derby while dinning with George Gershwin and composer Harold Arlen, was also dropping aside — doomed maybe, right from the start. Writing in another of her popular diaries, Anais Nin, Rainer’s good friend for quite some time, described how around the morning following the celebrity wedded Odets, she went toward him going to jump into his hands. “He drew aside and allow her fall. Odets was frightened of her impetus,” Nin had written. “Great deal of thought today,” Rainer afterwards reflected, “I noticed that was symbolic of our entire relationship! He was under no circumstances there once i required him, or once i longed for closeness.” Odets cheated on her behalf and, she linked to Vanity Good, reacted therefore coldly to the news headlines that she was pregnant that she experienced an abortion. An awful battle with Odets ruined the night time of her second Oscar earn. She was crying so difficult that that they had to group the Hollywood Roosevelt Resort many times before she could compose herself to get her statuette. “I had been the most unsatisfied woman you could imagine,” she recalled in the Washington Post in 1982. “The honor meant nothing at all because I regarded as the performing was only a present. They made my entire life so difficult, therefore glamorous. And I used to be involved with this tragic, Strindbergian relationship. I couldn’t deal with it.” Rainer divorced Odets in 1940. Once Hollywood and her initial marriage had been over, Rainer transferred to NEW YORK, then back again to European countries. She sometimes ventured back to performing. Before “The Gambler,” she was pursued by Federico Fellini to be a part of “La Dolce Vita” in 1959, which some believe could have revived Rainer’s profession. However the Rome high temperature and Fellini’s insistence on the sex picture with Marcello Mastroianni soured her in the task. “In the long run, I strolled out,” she stated within a 1997 interview for THE DAYS, “I’m a walker-outer.” In the first 1980s, Rainer memorized all 900 lines of “Enoch Arden,” Tennyson’s epic poem, which she performed in European countries and america, including at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall. She spent her 90th birthday in 2000 “going swimming in the Deceased Sea, placing some life involved with it.” However she recognized what she experienced lost by strolling from Hollywood. “I’ve constantly experienced guilty about devoid of continued work. I will have produced 50 or even more movies,” she informed the LA Instances in 1987. “Personally i think like that music of Piaf. She dies and would go to heaven and Saint Peter won’t allow her in. She says, ‘Appear within my hands,’ and St. Peter appears and says, ‘Arrive in.’ He’ll take a look at me and state, ‘You haven’t also started. Return back.'”.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Luise Rainer
Net Worth	$1.5 Million
Date Of Birth	January 12, 1910
Died	December 30, 2014, London, United Kingdom
Height	1.63 m
Profession	Actor
Spouse	Robert Knittel, Clifford Odets
Children	Francesca Knittel-Bowyer
Parents	Emilie Königsberger, Heinrich Rainer
Awards	Academy Award for Best Actress
Movies	Escapade, The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth, Big City, The Emperor's Candlesticks, The Toy Wife, The Great Waltz, Dramatic School, Hostages, The Gambler, Sehnsucht 202
TV Shows	MGM: When the Lion Roars