List of the best Luise Rainer movies: The Great Waltz(1938), The Good Earth(1937), The Big City(1937) ... ...
Musical
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Poldi Vogelhuber
Luise Rainer Fernand Gravey Miliza Korjus Hugh Herbert Lionel Atwill Curt Bois Leonid Kinskey Al Shean Minna Gombell George Houston Bert Roach
composer wife opera singer father count publisher airy creative melodramatic vienna café theater street palace ambition romance music infidelity devotion rise
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
138 Minutes
Paul Muni Luise Rainer Walter Connolly Tilly Losch Charley Grapewin Jessie Ralph Soo Yong Keye Luke Roland Lui Ching Wah Lee Harold Huber
farmer wife pretty woman son emotional melodramatic china farm farming family poverty aspirations marriage love triangle transformation love sacrifice 1930s
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Drama
USA
1937
80 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Luise Rainer Charley Grapewin Janet Beecher Eddie Quillan Victor Varconi Oscar O'Shea Helen Troy William Demarest John Arledge Irving Bacon
cab driver husband wife brother immigrant mobster melodramatic new york city garage taxi ship hideout gangsters mistaken identity corruption bombing taxicab business deportation pursuit rivalry
Julius Trent, the founder and president of Trent Mills objects to the plans of his manager, Walford Andrews, to manufacture a synthetic wool called Woolex. Finding Julius behind the times, ... See full summary »