The Golden Age of Hollywood...
Posted by: Kevin-W on 30 December 2014
...took another step into history, as opposed to living memory, today, with the death of Luise Rainer just a few days short of her 105th birthday.
Rainer only made about a dozen films, but she was a great actress and a great beauty, and was the first actor ever to win consecutive Oscars (for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth in 1936 and '37).
By my reckoning, that only leaves two of the greats from the 1930s and 40s left - Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland, who are both 98. After that, there's nobody left (there are second-tier stars, like Zsa Zsa Gabor [97], Danielle Darrieux [97], but no more A-listers apart from KD and OdH). Very sad.
Kirk had a stroke about 10 years ago Sniper, but he looks pretty good all things considered:
