Double Oscar Winner Not Exactly A Fan

THE INDEPENDENT: Forgotten golden girl of the Oscars
In the 1930s Luise Rainer won Best Actress Oscars in successive years. Gerard Gilbert meets a movie legend
Friday, 20 February 2009

One former Academy Award winner who won't be watching the Oscars this Sunday – and not just because she is almost deaf and no longer bothers with television – is the 99-year-old actress Luise Rainer. "All that ballyhoo... all these long speeches, thanking the grandparents and the great-grandparents... No, I find it very boring", she says in her German-accented English. You can only feel thankful that Rainer was spared Kate Winslet's simpering breakdown at the Golden Globes last month.

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