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2014 Celebrity Death: Luise Rainer Died December 30 At The Age Of 104

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Luise Rainer, a star of cinema's golden era and the first person ever to win back-to-back acting Oscars, died of pneumonia Dec. 30 at her home in London. She was 104 and would have turned 105 on Jan. 12. The instinctive actress (pictured here with her Big City co-star Spencer Tracy) captured back-to-back Academy Awards for The Great Ziegfeld in 1936 and The Good Earth in 1937, then shockingly turned her back on Hollywood

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