Miss Rainer, who also won the Academy Award for the Best Actress of 1936, is shown at the banquet with her famous playwright husband, Clifford Odets. She was at home in her house slippers when the academy committee phoned to tell her she'd won another "Oscar." So she changed into an evening gown and pumps and hastened downtown to receive her little gilt doll. Odets, leftist author, stormed the citadel of white ties and tails in a business suit.
Odets, Clifford,--1906-1963 Rainer, Luise,--1910-2014 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards (Motion pictures) Motion picture actors and actresses--United States Screenwriters--United States Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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