Talk:Luise Rainer

message: How many Academy Award winners of the past were older than Rainer is now? --RandomOrca2 19:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Only George Burns, who died at the age of 100 in 1996. John Mills died at the age Rainer is now (97) in 2005. This does not include Honary Academy Award winners (Bob Hope, Lillian Gish) nor winners outside the acting department. 84.87.228.147 11:28, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How many older?

message: I changed some. In the sentence "She began studying acting with Max Reinhardt, and by the time she was 16, there was already...", I changed 16 to 18, because in the interview article How Hollywood 'Discovered' Its Latest Foreign Star (referenced) it was mentioned she began acting at age 16, followed by the sentence: "Two years later Luise enrolled in the Max Reinhardt Theater in Vienna." Therefore, I changed the 16 to 18.
In the same 1935 article, it was said Rainer was discovered "a year ago". Because of that, I changed the "1935" in "She later appeared in several German language films before being discovered in 1935" to 1934.Moviefan (talk) 00:12, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates and ages

message: "Disenchanted with Hollywood, where she later said it was impossible to have an intellectual conversation,[1] she moved to New York City in 1940 to live with her husband, playwright Clifford Odets, whom she had married in 1937. Rainer and Odets were divorced three years later. Rainer had never made it a secret that she felt terrible as Odets' wife, and exclaimed in a 1938 interview: "All the acting I've done on the stage or screen has been nothing compared to the acting I did in New York, when I tried to make everyone think I was happy – and my heart was breaking."[38] She filed for divorce in mid-1938, but proceedings were delayed "to next October" when Odets fled to England.[39] The divorce was finalized on May 14, 1940."  
Does anyone else see how these dates (1937, 1940, 1943) can't possibly match up?  Which are correct? 
Also, regarding this: "Rainer had become an American citizen in the 1940s, but they had lived in the UK and Switzerland[36] for most of their marriage."  Who is this ("they") talking about? --69.251.209.87 (talk) 18:34, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome to Wikipedia!  The editing issues you mentioned are very typical throughout Wikipedia, especially where there are dozens of different sources used, some good, some bad.  For Rainer, you'll note that we're not even sure where she was born!  There are often debates on all parts of articles.  Remember too that there can be many dozens of small edits made by dozens of different people, and sometimes details are added without any valid source.  The way to handle these issues is to point out the problems and then try to fix them if you can. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 20:06, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistent Dates

message: The article doesn't really make it clear, if her father was Jewish as well. What do the cited books say? All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 00:56, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: They note only her mother's religion. But as they do go into detail on her parents' background, it can be implied that he was not Jewish, but only of German ancestry. Her father's name was Heinz Rainer. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 01:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. Biographical information I can find on her father mentions that he lived in Houston, Texas, with an uncle after he was orphaned. Indeed, I managed to find Henry Rainer (as he was known at the time) in some Texas records, including his passport application (born in Munich in 1875). Though those do not list religion. It appears that his uncle and aunt were Henry and Melinda or Malina Freund, both of whom were Jewish (listed in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry). My guess would be that Henry Freund was his mother's brother. That seems the most likely scenario. And thus, that Heinz Rainer (Henry Rainer) was Jewish. Spartacus SchoolNet lists Rainer as being born into a "Jewish family" - . All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 05:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was her father Jewish? 

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message: I've removed this sentence:
In World War II, she signed a visa affidavit to get Bertolt Brecht out of Germany because she "loved his poetry". In return, he wrote the role of Grusha Vashnadze in his 1944 play The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Rainer. However they had a disagreement and she never played it.
Besides the four year old "citation needed", there's the problem that Brecht left Germany in 1933; he came to the US from Finland in 1941. --jpgordon::==( o ) 04:04, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Perfectly justified removal. DerbyCountyinNZ  (Talk Contribs) 05:39, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Excellent work by jp. Quis separabit? 14:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  By the way, does anyone know what happened to her parents and/or extended family (I know she's an only child) during the Holocaust? No mention in article. She claimed her father was a naturalized US citizen but there's no indication that they moved to the US or anywhere, nor if/that they died before WWII. Thanks. Quis separabit? 19:38, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No, she's not an only child, at least according to my genealogical sources. She had two siblings, Robert and Fritz, but the geni.com information on them is quite sketchy (and of course could be wrong; the stuff is after all crowd-sourced.) Her Dad died in 1956 and her mom in 1961 (in Los Angeles.) Her Mom is my first cousin's wife's first cousin thrice removed's wife's first cousin once removed's husband's great nephew's wife's sister. (geni is so much fun and such a fine time waster -- but I got to thinking about her after watching The Great Ziegfeld last night.) --jpgordon::==( o ) 21:36, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the update. I am glad they survived. Quis separabit? 23:07, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Brecht visa

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message: The still from Combat! Finest Hour is of Luise Rainer with Ramon Novarro, not Maurice Marsac 203.220.204.68 (talk) 16:40, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Combat still