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May 8, 2024 · Ida Lupino, English-born American film and television actress, director, and screenwriter who first gained fame through her portrayals of strong, worldly-wise characters and went on to become one of the first women to direct films in Hollywood.
Aug 5, 1995 · Ida Lupino, an earthy, intelligent movie actress who created a luminous gallery of worldly wise villainesses, gangster's molls and hand-wringing neurotics, died on Thursday night at her home in...
Mar 16, 2021 · Ida Lupino, Hollywood Renaissance Woman. The groundbreaking actor, writer, and filmmaker had an exceedingly colorful life, as captured by Ida Lupino: A Biography. By Hadley Hall Meares.
Jun 12, 2018 · Lupino’s characters sought a grander life, one removed from their small-town circumstances and the limitations of their gender, but they often paid for it in trauma, frustration, and death. Lupino’s first trapped character is the dance-hall girl Marie in 1941’s “High Sierra” (pictured above).
Feb 16, 2018 · Born Feb. 4, 1918, Ida Lupino would have been a good fit for 2018. Describing herself as “the poor man’s Bette Davis,” the actress turned down roles she didn’t want and spent the subsequent...
Nov 24, 2016 · Of all the actresses associated with film noir, Ida Lupino (1918-1995) seems the most complex. Ms. Lupino could be as sultry and sassy as Lauren Bacall while projecting an aching vulnerability....
Nov 8, 2018 · Ida Lupino, a star of the nineteen-forties, became a director in 1949—a great one, as seen in Film Forum’s retrospective (through Nov. 22) of her work on both sides of the camera.