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
Amanda Foreman (actress) Amanda Foreman (actress) Amanda Foreman (born July 15, 1966) is an American actress best known for her role as Meghan Rotundi on the college drama series "Felicity" which ran from 1998-2002 Foreman was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Linda Lawson, an actress, and John Foreman, a producer. She is the younger sister of Julie Foreman, an actress. Foreman has worked on four series produced and/or created by J.J. Abrams. On "Felicity, "she played Felicity's college roommate, Meghan Rotundi, a Wiccan who — in "Help for the Lovelorn" (January 23, 2000), an homage to "The Twilight Zone" —