Showing posts with label Luise Rainer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luise Rainer. Show all posts

Monday, February 21, 2011

Classic Spotlight: Academy Awards (Part 1)

Norma Shearer receiving her Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee from Conrad Nagel
Hello My Fellow Movie Buffs,

It is that time of year where we all get all excited about any and everything Academy Awards! We will on an annual basis celebrate the best of the best winners in Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Direcotr, Costume Designer, etc....

We will look at the various locations that the Academy Awards were held along with the magnitude of hosts through the years. We will look at the acceptance speeches, the red carpet arrivals and much much more. Basically this post will look at EVERYTHING the best regarding the Academy Awards.

From the classic movie guy:
In this post we will look at the past winners and locations that the ceremony was held in through lovely images. I absolutely love this new addition to this group and hope you do to...be on the lookout for more installments. This is coming from the guy ever since I can remember being a wee lad taking naps to stay up late with my mother to watch our version of the Super Bowel and having treats.....watching who wore what and see who won what....we loved it and still do! It is a tradition for me that I have and always will love to take part in...now if only I can get myself on the red carpet!!!!

SO LIGHTS...CAMERA....ACTION....let the event begin!!!!!!!


1936 luise rainer paul muni and frank capra



1939 Best Actor: Specert Tracey & Best Actress: Bette Davis


1940 Best Director Victor Fleming for Gone With The Wind


1940 Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel for her role in Gone With The Wind presented by Fay Bainte



1941 Best Actor: Jimmy Stewart & Best Actress: Ginger Rogers



1942 Best Actor: Gary Cooper Best Actress: Joan Fontaine Best Supporting Actress: Mary Astor Best Supporting Actor: Donald Crisp



1943 Best Actress: Greer Garson Best Actor: James Cagney



1945 Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman



1946 Best Score: Miklos Rozsa with presenter Ginger Rogers



1947 Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter



1950 22nd Annual Academy Awards @ Pantages Theatre



1951 Presenter Gloria Swanson along with Jose Ferrer and winner Judy Holliday


1952 Pantages Theatre Stage for the Academy Awards Ceremony



1959 Best Actor David Niven & Best Actress Susan Hayward



1961 Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor scene with Eddie Fisher @ the Governors Ball



Best Actres: Bette Davis


nineth annual award at biltmore hotel


Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan and Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard

Friday, December 24, 2010

In Pictures: Luise Rainer

In Pictures: Luise Rainer
Here is our fifth installment of this new feature to "Love Those Classic Movies!!!" where we simply enjoy via beautiful pictures some of our favorite golden age classic stars. Not a lot of writing at all or tid bits or extras just simply as it is stated, "in pictures!"

Hope you all enjoy Luise Rainer in pictures, cheers!!!!






Luise Rainer at the Academy Awards 1937 winning one of her wins as Best Actress

Williams Powell & Luise Rainer



















Frank Capra, Luise Rainer and George Jessel
William Powell & Luise Rainer

Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, William Powell, & Virginia Bruce (Great Ziegfeld cast)


Spencer Tracy & Luise Rainer



Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)


The Great Ziegfeld (1936) MGM Studios
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Starring: William Powell, Luise Rainer & Myrna Loy

Won 3 Oscars
One for Best Actress - Louise Rainer won her first of two wins Best Film
Best Dance Direction



Plot:
This very lavish film centers around the great Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (Powell) whom is marr...ied first to the lovely and Anna Held (Rainer) a French actress. Ziegfeld wants bigger and better sets of his Ziegfeld Follies in NYC and with this tests his relationships and meets the actress Billy Burke (Loy). Burke gets his heart going and puts her in his reviews which tests his marriage with Anna. This is one of my very fav film's of the 30's with perfectly casted and wonderfully staged musical numbers, a must see!!!!


















The Toy Wife (1938)


The Toy Wife (1938) MGM Studios
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Starring: Melvyn Douglas, Louise Rainer and Robert Young



Plot:
The story centers on a great young beauty Gilberte 'Frou Frou' Brigard (Rainer) whom lives in Louisiana. Gilberte meets her sister's fiance George (Douglas) and ends up stealing and marrying him. During this time she meets a young dashing man Andre (Young) whom potentially is the true love of her life. Will 'Frou Frou' the great beauty of the south take the heart of two men and which one will she ultimately be with....watch this beautifully done MGM costume period piece. If you enjoy classic films with lavish film sets along with costumes this is one up your alley.