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
Sylvie (actress) France. She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in "The Shameless Old Lady". Sylvie (actress) Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (January 3, 1883 – January 5, 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with "The Old Heidelberg". She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for Don Camillo (1952) , "The Shameless