Lupino before performance on the radio series Cavalcade of America
Born
(1918-02-04)4 February 1918
Herne Hill, London, England
Died
3 August 1995(1995-08-03) (aged 77)
Los Angeles, California
Citizenship
United Kingdom
United States
Alma mater
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
Actress
director
writer
producer
Years active
1931–1978
Political party
Democrat
Spouses
Louis Hayward
(m. 1938; div. 1945)
Collier Young
(m. 1948; div. 1951)
Howard Duff
(m. 1951; div. 1984)
Children
1
Parents
Stanley Lupino (father)
Connie Emerald (mother)
Family
Lupino
Signature
Ida Lupino (4 February 1918[1] – 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. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system.[2] With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953.
Among Lupino's other directed films, the best known are Not Wanted (1949), about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit); Never Fear (1950), loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953), and The Trouble with Angels (1966). Her short yet immensely influential directorial career, tackling themes of women trapped by social conventions, usually under melodramatic or noir coverings, is a pioneering example of proto-feminist filmmaking.[3]
As an actress, Lupino's best known films are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) with Basil Rathbone; They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; High Sierra (1941) with Bogart; The Sea Wolf (1941) with Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield; Ladies in Retirement (1941) with Louis Hayward; Moontide (1942) with Jean Gabin; The Hard Way (1943); Deep Valley (1947) with Dane Clark; Road House (1948) with Cornel Wilde and Richard Widmark; While the City Sleeps (1956) with Dana Andrews and Vincent Price; and Junior Bonner (1972) with Steve McQueen.
Lupino also directed more than 100 episodes of television shows in a variety of genres, including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories.[4] She was the only woman to direct an episode of the original The Twilight Zone series ("The Masks"), and the only director to star in an episode ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine").[5]
^Recorded in Births Mar 1918 Camberwell Vol. 1d, p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index
^Morra, Anne (2 August 2019). "Anne Morra presents Ida Lupino's Never Fear and discusses the director's place in film history". Her Way Magazine. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^Kemp, Philip (2007). 501 Movie Directors. London: Quintessence. p. 230. ISBN 978-1844035731.
^Acker, Alley (1991). Reel Women – Pioneers of the Cinema, pp. 74–78. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York. ISBN 0826404995
^Ida Lupino Biography, Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved on 4 July 2011.
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