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
Katharine Blake (actress) "Armchair Theatre"; one of the first lesbian love affairs to be seen on UK television. Blake replaced Googie Withers as the Prison Governor in the ITV series Within These Walls in 1977, but only appeared in one season, leaving the role due to ill health. Katharine Blake is the maternal great-grandmother of American singer Lil Peep. She died long before he was born, and had no relationship with her daughter and her daughter's family. (reference Jenny Kastner, eldest daughter of Katharine Blake) Katharine Blake (actress) Katharine Blake (11 September 1921 – 1 March 1991) was a South African-born British actress,