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 Ross Katharine Ross Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940) is an American film and stage actress. She had starring roles as Elaine Robinson in "The Graduate" (1967), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; as Etta Place in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress; and as Joanna Eberhart in "The Stepford Wives" (1975). She won a Golden Globe for "Voyage of the Damned" (1976). Ross was born in Hollywood, California, on January 29, 1940 (though many sources cite 1942 or 1943) when