Who won the Oscar for Best Actress of 1936?
The German-born star Luise Rainer received the 1936 Academy
Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the real-life stage
actress Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld." She won the Best Actress
Oscar again for her performance as Chinese peasant O-Lan in the
1937 film version of "The Good Earth." Rainer, who died in December
2014 at the age of 104, was the first person to win back-to-back
Oscars for acting.