The Resume

(January 12, 1910-December 30, 2014)
Won the 1936 Oscar for Best Actress (The Great Ziegfeld)
Won the 1937 Oscar for Best Actress (The Good Earth)
Acted in 'The Great Waltz,' 'Dramatic School,' 'Hostages,' 'The Big City' and 'The Gambler'

Why she might be annoying:

She won Oscars for two performances that weren't all that good.
After winning back-to-back Oscars, she never made another good film.
Her career stall after winning the Oscars resulted in the legend of 'The Oscar Jinx' that winning an Oscar could put a hex on an acting career.
She was a Viennese actress who won Oscars for playing a Chinese woman and a French woman.
Her husband playwright Clifford Odets decided having sex killed his creativity, so he stopped sleeping with her.
She divorced Odets after three years of marriage.
She spells Louise, 'Luise.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She said that her career going south had nothing to do with the Oscars, but because she made bad movies.
She was the first performer to win back-to-back Oscars.
She wasn't obsessed with her appearance, and would come to functions without makeup.

Credit: Jon Mullich

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Appeared in Yellow Face
• Best Actress Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1937)
• Best Actress Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1936)
• Box Office Poison
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Girl Talk [1963-70]
• I am from Vienna, Austria
• I Attended the Premiere of 'Marie Antoinette' [1938]
• I Boarded the Love Boat [R-Z]
• I Died in 2014 (Ranked: 104)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[R-T]
• I Lived to 100 (Ranked: 104)
• I Won My First Oscar Before Turning 30 (Ranked: 28)
• Jon Mullich's Profiles
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (Ranked: 1936)
• Profiles 4501-4750 (Ranked: 4601)
• Rolling Stone's 50 Worst Decisions in Movie History [2023] (Ranked: 22)
• Weather Names
• Women Who Kept Their Maiden Name After Marriage [Lucy Stoners]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 13 Votes: 76.92% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 348 Votes: 62.64% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 115 Votes: 66.09% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 50 Votes: 46.00% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 34 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 38 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 90 Votes: 45.56% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 101 Votes: 58.42% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 237 Votes: 54.43% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 372 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 524 Votes: 51.53% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 740 Votes: 55.00% Annoying