Happy birthday to the oldest living Oscar winner, Luise Rainer
"The Good Earth" and "The Great Ziegfeld"May she live to be as old as she wants to!
Luise was the first actress to become a double Oscar winner (36/37) and the first thespian to do it back-to-back though Spencer Tracy repeated her trick immediately (37/38); Katharine Hepburn (67/68), Jason Robards (76/77) and Tom Hanks (93/94) followed suit.
Tonight
TCM is airing interviews with Luise
OLDEST LIVING OSCAR NOMINEES
- LUISE RAINER (two time Best Actress winner), now 101.
- NORMAN CORWIN (nominee, wrote Lust for Life) is 100 1/2.
- DOUGLAS SLOCOMBE (3-time nominee, shot Raiders of the Lost Ark) is 98 next month.
- ELMO WILLIAMS (Oscar winner, editing High Noon) is 98 in April.
- OSWALD MORRIS (Oscar winner, shot Fiddler on the Roof) recently turned 95.
- OLIVIA deHAVILLAND (two time Best Actress winner and featured in fav actresses gallery) is 94
- KIRK DOUGLAS (Michael Douglas pappy and 3 time nominee) just turned 94.
- ERNEST BORGNINE (Best Actor winner, Marty) turns 94 this month. He was last seen in the action comedy Red (2010).
- CELESTE HOLM (Best Supporting Actress winner for Gentleman's Agreement which we were just discussing and the best thing about a million movies, don'cha think?) is 93.
- JOAN FONTAINE (Best Actress winner, Suspicion) is 93.
lots more here though I can never decide if the keeping of this list is too morbid or appropriately celebratory of longevity. Wouldn't it be great if they asked ANY of them to present an Oscar this year? Nah, they'll probably ask Miley Cyrus again instead, DAMNIT.