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Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was a British actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948.
Actress: High Sierra. Ida was born in London to a show business family. In 1932, her mother took Ida with her to an audition and Ida got the part her mother wanted. The picture was Her First Affaire (1932). Ida, a bleached blonde, went to Hollywood in 1934 playing small, insignificant parts.
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.
Ida Lupino. Actress: High Sierra. Ida was born in London to a show business family. In 1932, her mother took Ida with her to an audition and Ida got the part her mother wanted. The picture was Her First Affaire (1932).
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.
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...
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).
Jan 28, 2019 · Ida Lupino’s bold, subversive films tackled social issues and still seem fresh almost 70 years later, writes Caryn James.
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.
Aug 6, 1995 · LOS ANGELES -- Ida Lupino, 77, the British-born actress who starred in more than 60 films before carving out a pioneering role as a director, producer and screenwriter, died Aug. 3 in her home in...
In a heartfelt 1995 New York Times tribute to Ida Lupino (1918–95), Martin Scorsese called her “a woman of extraordinary talents, and one of those talents was directing. Her tough, glowingly emotional work as an actress is well remembered, but her considerable accomplishments as a filmmaker are largely forgotten and they shouldn’t be.
Feb 2, 2018 · There was no place for women directors in 1940s and 50s Hollywood, but that didn’t stop Ida Lupino. Long before John Cassavetes, Lupino – born in London 100 years ago – blazed a trail for fearless, independent filmmakers.
Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed seven others. She also appeared in serial television programmes 58 times and directed 50 other episodes.
Dec 31, 1995 · They addressed the wounded soul and traced the slow, painful process of women trying to wrestle with despair and reclaim their lives. Her work is resilient, with a remarkable empathy for the ...
Feb 4, 2017 · Lupino, who died in 1995, but would be 99 today, was a rare bird in the stifling climate of Hollywood and was at home on both sides of the lens: Check out her heartbreaking gun moll in 1941’s ...
Though Paramount had imported her from England as an ingénue, Ida Lupino proved more than merely wise beyond her years when she landed in Hollywood in 1934. The 16-year-old scion of a British...
American film and television actress, writer, director, and producer, who was one of the few female directors in Hollywood during the 1950s and 1960s.
Jan 4, 2019 · Mary Ann Anderson was a new sub agent for The Lund Agency in California when she was ordered to deliver flowers to movie star Ida Lupino's home on her birthday. The woman was stunned by what...
Though Paramount had imported her from England as an ingénue, Ida Lupino proved more than merely wise beyond her years when she landed in Hollywood in 1934. The 16-year-old scion of a British acting dynasty, Lupino evinced a husky sensuality that had won her a reputation in her homeland as the...
May 31, 2024 · List of the best Ida Lupino movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Ida Lupino's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world.
In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death.
