The following list of magazine and newspaper articles and/or interviews is in chronological order. Where available, click on the link to read the interview / article. Where articles appear on third party websites external links are provided; for the majority of articles, especially those of the 1930s and 1940s, I have transcribed them and made them available here, online 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
Stuttgarter Illustrierte / 22 January 1933 / Germany
Schauspielerinnen by Livio Rheydt
The Family Circle / 16 August 1935 / USA
One A La Viennese and Three A La U.S.A. by Harry Evans
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
Picturegoer / September 1936 / UK
Criticisms of the Latest Films: The Great Ziegfeld
Modern Screen / February 1937 / USA
Miss Rainer Regrets by Nanette Kutner
Film Weekly / 27 February 1937 / UK
Three Hour Musical [Review of The Great Ziegfeld]
Picturegoer / 27 February 1937 / UK
The Real Rainer
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
Film Weekly / Summer 1937 / UK
The Great Rainer by Freda Bruce Lockhart
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
Picturegoer / 18 December 1937 / UK
China Rises Out Of Hollywood
Rainer Fools Film City Again
The Muni Method
Drama Behind the Drama by Sidney Franklin
Tilly Really Is Timid
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
Picture Play / May 1938 / USA
What’s Become of Luise Rainer? by Laura Ellsworth Fitch
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
Picture Show / 15 October 1938 / UK
Frou-Frou: Our Complete Short Story
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
Film Weekly / 25 March 1939 / UK
Luise Rainer Says Goodbye by Freda Bruce Lockhart
Picture Post / 6 May 1939 / UK
Cover photograph only
Theatre World / June 1939 / UK
Review of Behold the Bride by David Fairweather
“Q” Theatre Programme / 26 June 1939 / UK
Miss Luise Rainer told me by Harold Downs
Movie Mirror / August 1939 / US
Luise Rainer Confesses An Amazing Masquerade by Charles Darnton
1940-1949
Filmski Žurnal / 19 July 1940 / Yugoslavia
Cover photo
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 (above) 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
Photoplay / July 1974 / UK
What Are They Doing Now?: Luise Rainer by Roy Pickard
People / 31 July 1978 / USA
Sequel: Hassled by Hollywood, Luise Rainer’s star is reborn as a painter by Fred Hauptfuhrer
Films In Review / June-July 1979 / USA
Interview with Harry Haun
1980-1989
Los Angeles Times / 14 October 1983 / USA
Rainer Still Part Of ‘Good Earth’ by Lawrence Christon
Los Angeles Times / 28 April 1987 / USA
Luise Rainer Revisits Her Old Domain by Charles Champlin
Los Angeles Times / 15 August 1989 / USA
For Luise Rainer, Possibly A Return To Hollywood by Charles Champlin
1990-1999
Hello! / 27 September 1997 / UK
Thirties Screen Legend Luise Rainer Makes Her Comeback After 50 Years by Richard Stirling
Los Angeles Times / 26 October 1997 / USA
Thirties Something by David Gritten
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
Los Angeles Times / 13 August 1999 / USA
‘Gambler’ Deftly Mixes Author’s Life and Writing by Kevin Thomas
MovieMaker / 2 September 1999 / US
Luise Rainer: She Did It Her Way by Kevin Lewis
2000-2009
Classic Images / October 2002 / USA
An Evening with Luise Rainer: report by Paul W. McMahon
Various outlets / February 2005 / International
The Aviator ‘Fails to Capture’ the Madness of Hughes
The Times / 24 February 2005 / UK
‘I wanted to live more than I wanted to act’, an interview by Christopher Wood
The Independent / 20 February 2009 / UK
Forgotten golden girl of the Oscars, an interview by Gerard Gilbert
2010-present
The Daily Telegraph / 22 October 2009 / UK
The Hollywood legend who turned her back on Oscars by Mick Brown [paywall]
The Scotsman / 5 January 2010 / UK
A Hollywood Legend at 100 (interview) by Richard Stirling
Los Angeles Times / 1 May 2010 / USA
Luise Rainer’s 100 Years of Fortitude by Susan King
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 [Luise’s final interview]
BBC News / 30 December 2014 / UK
Luise Rainer, Hollywood golden era Oscar winner, dies aged 104
The Guardian / 30 December 2014 / UK
Obituary by Ronald Bergan
Los Angeles Times / 30 December 2014 / USA
Obituary by Claudia Luther
Vanity Fair / 30 December 2014 / USA
Obituary by Gary Susman
Variety / 30 December 2014 / USA
Obituary by Carmel Dagan
New York Times / 31 December 2014 / USA
Obituary by Robert D. McFadden
CNN / 2 January 2015 / USA
Luise Rainer, back-to-back Oscar winner, dead at 104 by Todd Leopold
The Guardian / 6 January 2015 / UK
My friendship with Luise Rainer: art, advice, Einstein and champagne by Patrick Kennedy
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