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Ida Lupino (Birthday February
4, 1918 – August 3, 1995) was an English film actress, director, and a pioneer
among women filmmakers.
Encouraged to enter show-business by both her parents and a first cousin
once-removed,
It was after her appearance in The Light That Failed in 1939 that
Lupino was taken seriously as a dramatic actress. As a result, her parts
improved during the 1940s and she began to describe herself as "the poor
man's Bette Davis." While working for Warner Brothers, Lupino would refuse
parts that
During this period, Lupino became known for her hard-boiled roles,
and appeared in such films as They Drive by Night (1940) and High
Sierra (1941). She acted regularly and was in high demand throughout the
1940s without becoming a major star.
In 1947, Lupino left Warner Brothers to become a freelance actress. Notable
films around that time include Road House and On Dangerous Ground.
It was during a
suspension in the late 1940s that Lupino began studying the processes behind
the camera. Her first directing job came around when Elmer Clifton fell ill
during the filming of Not Wanted, a 1949 movie which she co-wrote.
Lupino often joked that if she had been the "poor man's Bette
Davis" as an actress, then she had become the "poor man's Don Siegel"
as a director.
From the early 1950s she began directing films, mostly melodramas, and was one
of the few women of her era to achieve success in this field. In 1952, Lupino
was invited to become the "fourth star" in Four Star Productions by Dick
Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer, after Joel McCrea and Rosalind Russell
dropped out.
She directed Outrage in 1950, a film about rape, a subject still controversial
twenty years after the adoption of the Hays Code. In addition to acting in many
films noir, Lupino also directed The Hitch-Hiker (1953), the first such
film directed by a woman.
From January 1957 through September 1958, Lupino starred with her husband, Howard Duff, in the CBS comedy Mr. Adams and Eve.
Lupino has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame for her contributions to the fields of television and motion pictures
Lupino was born in Camberwell,
She married and divorced three times: Louis Hayward, actor. Collier Young, producer. Howard Duff, actor,
with whom she had a daughter, Bridget Duff.
Lupino died from a stroke while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in
Lupino was the titular subject of a
jazz homage composed by Carla Bley.
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