Irving Thalberg as a Chinese peasant, she was required to act totally subservient to her husband, being perpetually huddled in submission, and barely spoke a word of dialogue during the entire film. Rainer recalls that Mayer did not approve of the film being produced or her part in it: "He was horrified at Irving Thalberg's insistence for me to play O-lan, the poor uncomely little Chinese peasant." However, she again won the Oscar for Best Actress, becoming the first actress to win two consecutive Oscars, a feat not matched until Katharine Hepburn's two Oscar wins thirty years later. Besides bringing a distinctive
Seema (actress) Seema (actress) Seema (born 22 May 1957) is an Indian film actress. She has performed in approximately 250 films in Malayalam, 20 in Tamil, seven in Telugu, three in Kannada and one in Hindi. She began her career in Tamil film at the age of 14 as a dancer. She debuted as an actress in director Lisa Baby's "Nizhale Nee Sakshi", but this film was shelved. (It was later completed with Vidhubala as heroine.) Veteran actor Vijayan rechristened her Seema during the filming of "Nizhale Nee Sakshi". At the age of 19, Seema starred as the heroine in her first