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
Ann Williams (actress) (born on September 30, 1977). The four siblings later wrote a book about their family life after their parents' untimely deaths, "The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir" (Harmony/Random House, 2009). Ann Williams (actress) Ann Morgan Williams (May 18, 1935 – December 13, 1985) was an American television, soap opera and Broadway actress. A native of Washington, D.C., Williams' notable soap roles included stints on "The Doctors" as the first Dr. Maggie Fielding Powers and on "The Edge of Night" as television station owner Margo Huntington Dorn. Her most memorable role, however, for which she is best-remembered, was as the