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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.
Mar 16, 2021 · Born in London in 1918, Ida Lupino was a movie star, writer, producer, groundbreaking filmmaker, and an all-around character. A brilliant renaissance woman, dubbed by one columnist “the last of...
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...
Dec 31, 1995 · Lupino had been discovered as an actress in England by the great American director Allan Dwan in 1933, and made six pictures before she came to America a year later. She was wonderful in many...
Feb 16, 2018 · Feb. 16, 2018 12:10 PM PT. 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...
Ida Lupino 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. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system.
Aug 2, 2019 · Actor, director, screenwriter, and producer Ida Lupino (February 4, 1918 - August 3, 1995) was a pioneering creative force in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1970s. Lupino was one of the first actresses to make a transition to behind-camera roles, becoming one of the only prominent female directors during the Golden Age of Hollywood.