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Ida Lupino(1918-1995)

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  • Writer
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Ida Lupino, c. 1943.
Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.
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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. Peter Ibbetson (1935) was one of her few noteworthy movies and it was not until The Light That Failed (1939) that she got a chance to get better parts. In most of her movies, she was cast as the hard, but sympathetic woman from the wrong side of the tracks. In The Sea Wolf (1941) and High Sierra (1941), she played the part magnificently. It has been said that no one could do hard-luck dames the way Lupino could do them. She played tough, knowing characters who held their own against some of the biggest leading men of the day - Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Colman, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. She made a handful of films during the forties playing different characters ranging from Pillow to Post (1945), where she played a traveling saleswoman to the tough nightclub singer in The Man I Love (1946). But good roles for women were hard to get and there were many young actresses and established stars competing for those roles. She left Warner Brothers in 1947 and became a freelance actress. When better roles did not materialize, Ida stepped behind the camera as a director, writer and producer. Her first directing job came when director Elmer Clifton fell ill on a script that she co-wrote Not Wanted (1949). Ida had joked that as an actress, she was the poor man's Bette Davis. Now, she said that as a director, she became the poor man's Don Siegel. The films that she wrote, or directed, or appeared in during the fifties were mostly inexpensive melodramas. She later turned to television where she directed episodes in shows such as The Untouchables (1959) and The Fugitive (1963). In the seventies, she made guest appearances on various television show and appeared in small parts in a few movies.
BornFebruary 4, 1918
DiedAugust 3, 1995(77)
BornFebruary 4, 1918
DiedAugust 3, 1995(77)
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  • Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys

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Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino in The Light That Failed (1939)
Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan in Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951)
Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940)
Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940)
Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940)
Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in Moontide (1942)
Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in Moontide (1942)
Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in Moontide (1942)
Claude Rains, Ralph Byrd, Jean Gabin, Chester Gan, Vera Lewis, Ida Lupino, and Tully Marshall in Moontide (1942)
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Forrest, and Ida Lupino in While the City Sleeps (1956)
Ida Lupino and Dee Pollock in Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Ida Lupino in Women's Prison (1955)

Known for

Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino in High Sierra (1941)
High Sierra
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  • Marie Garson
  • 1941
Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, and Dennis Morgan in The Hard Way (1943)
The Hard Way
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  • Mrs. Helen Chernen
  • 1943
Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, and Ida Lupino in Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Ladies in Retirement
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  • Ellen Creed
  • 1941
Sydney Greenstreet, Ida Lupino, and William Prince in Pillow to Post (1945)
Pillow to Post
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  • Jean Howard
  • 1945

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Actress

  • My Boys Are Good Boys (1979)
    My Boys Are Good Boys
  • Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith in Charlie's Angels (1976)
    Charlie's Angels
  • The Food of the Gods (1976)
    The Food of the Gods
  • Angie Dickinson in Police Woman (1974)
    Police Woman
  • Eddie Albert, Robert Wagner, and Sharon Gless in Switch (1975)
    Switch
  • Ellery Queen (1975)
    Ellery Queen
  • The Devil's Rain (1975)
    The Devil's Rain
  • The Manhunter (1974)
    The Manhunter
  • Columbo (1971)
    Columbo
  • The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
    The Streets of San Francisco
  • Barnaby Jones (1973)
    Barnaby Jones
  • The Letters (1973)
    The Letters
  • I Love a Mystery (1973)
    I Love a Mystery
  • Female Artillery (1973)
    Female Artillery
  • The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)
    The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

Director

  • Harlen Carraher, Kellie Flanagan, Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, and Charles Nelson Reilly in The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968)
    The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
  • Dundee and the Culhane (1967)
    Dundee and the Culhane
  • Fess Parker in Daniel Boone (1964)
    Daniel Boone
  • James Drury, Doug McClure, and John McIntire in The Virginian (1962)
    The Virginian
  • Jim Backus, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, Natalie Schafer, and Dawn Wells in Gilligan's Island (1964)
    Gilligan's Island
  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
  • The Trouble with Angels (1966)
    The Trouble with Angels
  • Anne Francis in Honey West (1965)
    Honey West
  • Karen (1964)
    Karen
  • James Franciscus in Mr. Novak (1963)
    Mr. Novak
  • Charles Boyer and Susanne Cramer in The Rogues (1964)
    The Rogues
  • Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick York in Bewitched (1964)
    Bewitched
  • The Twilight Zone (1959)
    The Twilight Zone
  • Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
    Kraft Suspense Theatre
  • Dr. Kildare (1961)
    Dr. Kildare

Writer

  • Thriller (1960)
    Thriller
  • The Green Peacock
    • (creator)
  • Four Star Playhouse (1952)
    Four Star Playhouse
  • Screen Directors Playhouse (1955)
    Screen Directors Playhouse
  • Howard Duff, Steve Cochran, and Ida Lupino in Private Hell 36 (1954)
    Private Hell 36
  • The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
    The Hitch-Hiker
  • Mala Powers in Outrage (1950)
    Outrage
  • Never Fear (1950)
    Never Fear
  • Anson Bond, Keefe Brasselle, Elmer Clifton, Sally Forrest, Ida Lupino, and Leo Penn in Not Wanted (1949)
    Not Wanted

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Personal details

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    • February 4, 1918
    • Camberwell, London, England, UK
    • August 3, 1995
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(died of a stroke while battling colon cancer)
    • Howard DuffOctober 21, 1951 - 1984 (divorced, 1 child)
    • Bridget Duff
    • Stanley Lupino
  • Other works
    Unsold pilot: She produced a pilot for a proposed TV series called "Rescue" about real-life rescues.
  • Publicity listings
    • 6 Print Biographies
    • 6 Articles
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    She was the only person to both appear in and direct episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959), acting in The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (1959) and directing The Masks (1964). She was also the only woman to have directed an episode of the series.
  • Quotes
    My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England - I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
    • Calls everyone "Darling"
    • Deep Valley
      (1947)
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