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Usually running time 45 minutes Actress Luise Rainer celebrates her 100th birthday in January. In a specially extended Platform she reflects on an extraordinary career: discovered by Max Reinhardt and serenaded by Charlie Chaplin, she was the first person to win back-to-back Best Actress Academy Awards in the 1930s for The Great Zeigfeld and The Good Earth, married playwright Clifford Odets, and campaigned for Brecht to leave Nazi Germany. She also discusses the political and social changes she has witnessed over the course of a century, with Christopher Frayling. (1hr 15mins)