Luise Rainer humble Chinese peasant subservient to her husband and speaking little during the entire film. Her comparative muteness, stated historian Andrew Sarris, was "an astounding tour de force after her hysterically chattering telephone scene in "The Great Ziegfeld"", and contributed to her winning her second Best Actress Oscar. The award made her the first actress to win two consecutive Oscars, a feat not matched until Katharine Hepburn's two wins thirty years later. In later years, however, Rainer felt that winning the two Oscars so early may have been the "worst possible thing" to befall her career. She said that it made
Sylvie (actress) France. She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in "The Shameless Old Lady". Sylvie (actress) Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (January 3, 1883 – January 5, 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with "The Old Heidelberg". She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for Don Camillo (1952) , "The Shameless