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
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