Ida Lupino
Mrs. Helen Chernen
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The Hard Way: Directed by Vincent Sherman. With Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson. Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Vincent Sherman
- 1943-02-20
The Hard Way. (1943 film) The Hard Way is a 1943 Warner Bros. musical drama film starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, and Joan Leslie. Directed by Vincent Sherman, it is based on a story by Irwin Shaw which was reportedly based on Ginger Rogers ' relationship with her first husband Jack Pepper (whom she married in 1928 at age 17) and her mother ...
Hard Way, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Last Night You Said Louisville Older sister Helen (Ida Lupino) laying a shrewd line on traveling vaudevillian Albert (Jack Carson), who then springs younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) on partner Paul (Dennis Morgan) as they leave town, in The Hard Way, 1943.
- Vincent Sherman, Elmer Decker, Harold Winston
- Ida Lupino
The Hard Way (1942) Movie Info Synopsis Helen (Ida Lupino) wants out of her small town and sees her sister Katie (Joan Leslie) as her means when she discovers that Katie can sing.
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- Vincent Sherman
- Drama
- Ida Lupino
Ambitious Helen Chernin (Ida Lupino) pushes her talented younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) into marriage with broken down song-and-dance man Albert Runkel (Jack Carson) so that the two women can leave the dirty steel town where they live. Runkel's partner Paul Collins (Dennis Morgan), however, sees through Helen's plan.
haroldg-2 13 August 2001. Vincent Sherman's 1943 'The Hard Way' stars Ida Lupino as an ambitious, manipulative woman who pushes her younger sister into a musical theater career, stopping at nothing to get her sister to the top. Despite her strong central performance, the film is a disappointment.
Ida Lupino won critical praise for her performance here as a woman with ruthless ambition who manipulates her kid sister’s naiveté and talent to find fame and fortune on Broadway. A classic hardboiled Lupino role, it was an exception to the frustrating experience she had finding acceptable stories under contract at Warner Bros., an ...
