The following is a list of magazine and newspaper articles and/or interviews. The list is in chronological order. 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.
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 / October 1935 / USA
Know Luise Rainer by Kirtley Baskette
Film Weekly / 1 November 1935 / UK
The Romance of Luise Rainer by Leonard Wallace
What – And What Not – To See: Escapade by John Gammie
Photoplay / July 1936 / USA
The Tempestuous Life Story of Luise Rainer by Adele Whiteley Fletcher
Modern Screen / February 1937 / USA
Miss Rainer Regrets by Nanette Kutner
Chinese Digest / March 1937 / USA
Who’s Who Among The Chinese In “The Good Earth”
An Inside View of a Motion Picture Studio by Lim P. Lee
Picture Show / 6 March 1937 / UK
The Life Story of Luise Rainer
Modern Screen / July 1937 / USA
Rainer – The Rebel by Ida Zeitlin
Picturegoer / 10 July 1937 / UK
Garbo’s Greatest Rival by Malcolm Phillips
Boy’s Cinema / 13 November 1937 / UK
The story of The Emperor’s Candlesticks, with front cover photo montage
Boy’s Cinema / 11 December 1937 / UK
The story of Big City, with front cover photo montage
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
Screen Book / January 1938 / USA
The Truth About Luise Rainer by Mary Hilliard
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
Cine-Mundial / October 1938 / USA
Cover illustration by Jose M. Recoder
Modern Movies / October 1938 / USA
Fighting for Freedom by Charles Darnton
The Family Circle / 16 December 1938 / USA
The Reel Dope, a review of The Great Waltz
Picturegoer / 31 December 1938 / UK
Living the Part with Luise by Jack Chandler
The Family Circle / 6 January 1939 / USA
Those Flickers In Our Eyes, a review of Dramatic School
Cine-Miroir / 20 January 1939 / France
La trop sensible Luise Rainer by Sunlight
Movie Mirror / February 1939 / USA
No Sacrifice Is Too Great For Love by Sonia Lee
Theatre World / February 1939 / UK
The Film World (Review of The Great Waltz) by David Fairweather
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
Theatre Arts / May 1942 / USA
Moon Down, Theatre Rises: Broadway in Review by Rosamond Gilder
Picture Show / 11 March 1944 / UK
Cover photo, with Arturo de Cordova for Hostages, with pictorial and story of the film
Cinémonde / 27 August 1946 / France
Tableau de Famille A Orly by J.-D. V
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
1970-1979
People / 31 July 1978 / USA
Sequel: Hassled by Hollywood, Luise Rainer’s star is reborn as a painter by Fred Hauptfuhrer
1990-1999
Sight and Sound / November 1997 / UK
The Gambler review by Julian Graffy
Vanity Fair / April 1998 / US
The Last Goddess by Marie Brenner, with photographs by Annie Liebovitz
2000-2009
Various outlets / February 2005 / International
The Aviator ‘Fails to Capture’ the Madness of Hughes
The Independent / 20 February 2009 / UK
Forgotten golden girl of the Oscars, an interview by Gerard Gilbert
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
