The best Luise Rainer’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Luise Rainer’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Luise Rainer.
The Good Earth
7.5/10
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
The Great Ziegfeld
6.6/10
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
The Great Waltz
6.5/10
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Big City
6.4/10
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
8.5/10
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
That's Entertainment! III
7.5/10
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Frank Capra's American Dream
7.4/10
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Escapade
7.7/10
A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
The Emperor's Candlesticks
6.5/10
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Dramatic School
6.2/10
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and assembles gas meters at night.
The Romance of Celluloid
4.8/10
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.
Sehnsucht 202
6.9/10
After a mix-up with a newspaper advertisement, a shop-girl and a millionairess are mistaken for one another by two businessmen. A musical romantic comedy.
The Toy Wife
5.8/10
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
Heut' kommt's drauf an
A musical comedy centering around the competitors in the Golden Saxophone competition.
Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
8.1/10
100-year-old Oscar-winning actress Luise Rainer sits down with Robert Osborne at the 2010 TCM Classic Film Festival.
Ziegfeld on Film
5.7/10
A short documentary which features on the UK DVD release (2004) of the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which includes interviews with Ziegfeld's daughter Patricia, and one of the film's stars, Luise Rainer. They discuss Ziegfeld's life and the making of the movie respectively.
