The following is a list of magazine and newspaper articles and/or interviews. The list is in chronological order, starting in the first column with the earliest article, from 1933, and continuing in the second column. It includes name of publication (or website), country and date of issue, article title and a brief note about the content. Where available, you can click on the link to read the interview / article. Many of these are now available online via Google News and other archive resources (some websites require registration and payment, these are noted below). For some of the most interesting older interviews I have transcribed the text for this website and they are published online here for the first time. You can now view a selection of magazine covers featuring Luise in the Magazine Covers gallery.
This page will be updated as new articles are added to my collection. I am grateful to any readers who wish to supply missing information regarding similar articles and interviews which can be added to this list. Any such information can be sent to me at the usual email address.
A note to readers: all of these interviews and articles have been transcribed exactly from the original newspaper or magazine in which they first appeared. Many of them, especially those from the 1930s, contain factual errors or contradictory information, as much of the details fed to the Press at this time was tailored by MGM to suit their commercial agenda (many will refer to Luise as a Viennese actress, for example, rather than of German origin). Please bear this in mind when reading these articles, which are, despite these inconsistencies, a source of useful information and entertainment.
1930-1939
Photoplay / July 1936 / USA
The Tempestuous Life Story of Luise Rainer by Adele Whiteley Fletcher
Film Pictorial / 1 January 1938 / UK
Cover photo with Paul Muni, from The Good Earth
Woman the Drudge – A poignant study by Luise Rainer in The Good Earth by Trevor Allen
Silver Screen / July 1938 / USA
No Glamour, Please! by Cyril Vandour
The Milwaukee Journal Screen and Radio / 25 September 1938 / USA
Cover photo as “Poldi” in The Great Waltz
Modern Movies / October 1938 / USA
Fighting for Freedom by Charles Darnton
Cine-Miroir / 20
January 1939 / France
La trop sensible Luise Rainer by Sunlight
Picture Post / 6 May 1939 / UK
Cover photograph only
“Q” Theatre Programme / 26 June 1939 / UK
Miss Luise Rainer told me by Harold Downs
1940-1949
France Illustration / 16 April 1949 / France
Cover photo posing for painter Dimitri Berea
The Billboard / 20 August 1949 / USA
Review of Lost Child by June Bundy
Radio Times / 25 November 1949 / UK
The Return of Luise Rainer by John Swift
Fairy Tale from the Vienna Woods by Lionel Hale
La Settimana Incom / 24 December 1949 / Italy
Luise Rainer detesta l’America by Ermanno Contini
2010-present
AnOther Magazine / Spring 2010 / UK
Luise, an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Vanity Fair / March 2010 / USA
The Proust Questionnaire
Entertainment Weekly / February 3-10 2012 / USA
The Oldest Oscar Winner Speaks by Rob Brunner
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