# Luise Rainier, golden age star passes away **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576 "2014-12-30T23:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/1 "2014-12-30T23:44:00Z")
Luise Rainier, two-time oscar winner in the 1930s has died at the grand old age of 104. > **[Luise Rainer, Hollywood golden era Oscar winner, dies aged 104](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30631088)** > > Actress Luise Rainer, who became the first winner of consecutive Oscars in the 1930s, dies aged 104. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/2 "2014-12-31T02:23:46Z")
Olivia DeHaviland is still alive, although having outlasted Joan Fontaine, one wonders if she still cares. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/3 "2014-12-31T02:46:52Z")
Who else is left from the 30s and 40s? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/4 "2014-12-31T03:10:11Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > Who else is left from the 30s and 40s? Zsa Zsa Gabor hasn’t kicked the bucket yet (but she would fall over if she did). Technically she wasn’t famous until the 50’s Kirk Douglas is nearly 100. Still Living. I recently saw _Gaslight_ from 1944 . It was kind of funny to see Jessica Fletcher playing a trampy maid. Angela Lansbury is still around. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/5 "2014-12-31T04:05:07Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > Who else is left from the 30s and 40s? Lupita Tovar, who starred in the Spanish language version of _[Dracula](http://tczumwalt.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/spanish-drac.jpg)_ in 1931, is still alive at the age of 104. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/6 "2014-12-31T04:07:19Z")
Where’s **Eve** when you need her? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/7 "2014-12-31T04:37:52Z")
_The Good Earth_ was on television a few months ago. I’d forgotten how good she was in that. She won an Academy Award for her performance, in a role that can’t have had more than a minute’s dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/8 "2014-12-31T08:32:49Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > Luise Rainier, two-time oscar winner in the 1930s… YouTube conveniently has a glimpse of her at age 22 in a clip from [Sehnsucht 202](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfxXcZfPbFM). > [@jovan](#): > > Who else is left from the 30s and 40s? Here is a partial list that I collected from IMDb, and others can surely contribute more. Sorted by age, name, example movie/short/cartoon/TV from the 1930’s-1940’s… [ul] [li]100= [Norman Lloyd](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/); [Saboteur](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035279/), 1942[/li][li]97 = [Marsha Hunt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402554/); [The Virginia Judge](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027177/), 1935[/li][li]97 = [June Foray](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004931/); [Red Hot Riding Hood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036295/) (Tall Cigarette Girl (voice), 1948[/li][li]94 = [Noel Neill](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624747/); [Henry and Dizzy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034844/), 1942[/li][li]94 = [Maureen O’Hara](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000058/); [The Hunchback of Notre Dame](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031455/), 1939[/li][li]93 = [Louis Jourdan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431139/); [La comédie du bonheur](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032350/), 1940[/li][li]93 = [Nancy Reagan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004864/); [The Doctor and the Girl](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041300/), 1949[/li][li]92 = [Barbara Hale](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354853/); [The Falcon Out West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036809/), 1944[/li][li]92 = [Janis Paige](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656712/); [Bathing Beauty](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036628/), 1944[/li][li]92 = [Betty White](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924508/); [Time to Kill](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418240/), 1945[/li][li]91 = [Valentina Cortese](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181305/); [Thieves’ Highway](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041958/), 1949[/li][li]91 = [Rhonda Fleming](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281766/); [Out of the Past](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039689/), 1947[/li][li]90 = [Doris Day](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000013/); [Romance on the High Seas](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040745/), 1948[/li][li]90 = [Eva Marie Saint](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001693/); [A Christmas Carol](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225393/), 1947[/li][li]89 = [Dorothy Malone](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540416/); [The Big Sleep](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/), 1946[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/9 "2014-12-31T11:20:23Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I recently saw _Gaslight_ from 1944 . It was kind of funny to see Jessica Fletcher playing a trampy maid. Angela Lansbury is still around. She played quite a number of tramps and bitches back in the day. If I was in movies or on stage I’d love to play villains/tramps/bitches. I adored Sian Phillips as Livia in the BBC’s _I, Claudius._ ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/10 "2014-12-31T14:51:19Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Where’s **Eve** when you need her? That was my first thought too! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luise-rainier-golden-age-star-passes-away/708576/11 "2014-12-31T15:10:09Z")
Per Eve, she actually had a not-nice reputation as being hard to work with and not telling the whole story when recounting stories of her film days (i.e. poor me, bad them, when there was more to it). Bless her heart.