Editing Luise Rainer (section)

===Early roles===
Rainer moved to Hollywood in 1935 as a hopeful new star.<ref name="Monush">Monush, Barry. ''Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors'', Hal Leonard Corp. (2003) p. 618</ref> Biographer [[Charles Higham (biographer)|Charles Higham]] notes that MGM studio head [[Louis B. Mayer]] and story editor [[Samuel Marx]] had seen footage of Rainer before she came to Hollywood, and both felt she had the looks, charm, and especially a "certain tender vulnerability" that Mayer admired in female stars.<ref name="Higham">[[Charles Higham (biographer)|Higham, Charles]]. ''Merchant of Dreams: Louis B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood'', Donald I. Fine, Inc. (1993)</ref> Because of her poor command of English, Mayer assigned actress [[Constance Collier]] to train her in correct speech and dramatic modulation, and Rainer's English improved rapidly.<ref name="Higham" />

Her first film role in Hollywood was in ''[[Escapade (1935 film)|Escapade]]'' (1935), a remake of one of her Austrian films, co-starring [[William Powell]].<ref name="Worsley">Worsley, Sue Dwiggins, and Ziarko, Charles. ''From Oz to E.T.: Wally Worsley's Half-century in Hollywood'', Scarecrow Press (1997) p. 16</ref> She received the part after [[Myrna Loy]] gave up her role halfway through filming.<ref name="Thomson" /> After seeing the preview, Rainer ran out of the cinema displeased with how she appeared: "On the screen, I looked so big and full of face, it was awful."<ref name="dietz">"Lady Puck Stirs a Tempest in Filmland" by Edith Dietz, ''[[The Oakland Tribune]]'', 25 August 1935, p. 32</ref> The film generated immense publicity for Rainer, who was hailed as "Hollywood's next sensation."<ref name="lacrosse">"Luise Rainer, Quick on English, Doesn't Talk Hollywood Language", ''[[La Crosse Tribune]]'', 12 July 1935, p. 2</ref> However, she did not like giving interviews, explaining:

<blockquote>Stars are not important, only what they do as a part of their work is important. Artists need quiet in which to grow. It seems Hollywood does not like to give them this quiet. Stardom is bad because Hollywood makes too much of it, there is too much 'bowing down' before stars. Stardom is weight pressing down over the head&nbsp;— and one must grow upward or not at all.<ref name="lacrosse" /></blockquote>