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Ida Lupino (born London
London

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, 4 February – died Los Angeles
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, 3 August ) was an Anglo-American film actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others. She also appeared in episodic television fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes. In addition, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes.
into a family of performers, Lupino was encouraged to enter show-business by both her parents and a first cousin once-removed, Lupino Lane
Lupino Lane

Henry William George Lupino or Lupino Lane was a British-born actor and theatre manager from the Lupino family. Lane appeared in a wide range of theatrical and film performances but he is best known for playing Bill Snibson in the play and film Me and My Girl which popularised the Lambeth walk....
, Lupino made her first film appearance in , in The Love Race, and worked for several years playing minor roles.

It was after her appearance in The Light That Failed
The Light that Failed

The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India....
 in that Lupino was taken seriously as a dramatic actress.






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Ida Lupino (born London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, 4 February – died Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, 3 August ) was an Anglo-American film actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others. She also appeared in episodic television fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes. In addition, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes.

Acting career

Born into a family of performers, Lupino was encouraged to enter show-business by both her parents and a first cousin once-removed, Lupino Lane
Lupino Lane

Henry William George Lupino or Lupino Lane was a British-born actor and theatre manager from the Lupino family. Lane appeared in a wide range of theatrical and film performances but he is best known for playing Bill Snibson in the play and film Me and My Girl which popularised the Lambeth walk....
, Lupino made her first film appearance in , in The Love Race, and worked for several years playing minor roles.

It was after her appearance in The Light That Failed
The Light that Failed

The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India....
 in 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
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
." While working for Warner Brothers, Lupino would refuse parts that Davis also had rejected, and earned herself suspensions.

During this period, Lupino became known for her hard-boiled roles, and appeared in such films as They Drive by Night
They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night is a 1940 in film film starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart. It is filmed in black-and-white....
  and High Sierra , both opposite Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
. She acted regularly and was in high demand throughout the 1940s without becoming a major star.

In , Lupino left Warner Brothers to become a freelance actress. Notable films she appeared in around that time include Road House
Road House (1948 film)

Road House is a film noir drama directed by Jean Negulesco, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle. The picture features Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, among others....
 and On Dangerous Ground
On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the novel Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler....
.

Directing career

It was during a suspension in the late 1940s that Lupino began studying the processes behind the camera. Her first directing job came unexpectedly in when Elmer Clifton
Elmer Clifton

Elmer Clifton, was an United States writer, Film director, and actor from the early silent days. A collaborator of D. W. Griffith, he appeared in The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance before giving up acting in 1919 to concentrate on work behind the camera....
 suffered a mild heart attack and couldn't finish Not Wanted, the film he was directing for Filmways, the company started by Lupino and her husband Collier Young
Collier Young

Movie Film producer and writer Collier Young worked on many films in the 50's before becoming a television producer for such shows as Ironside and The Wild Wild West....
 to make low-budget issue-oriented movies. Lupino stepped in to finish the film, and went on to direct her own projects, becoming Hollywood's only female film director of the time. After four "woman's" films about social issue – including Outrage
Outrage (film)

Outrage is a 1950 in film black-and-white B-movie starring Mala Powers. It was directed by noted film noir actress and pioneering female director Ida Lupino....
 , a film about rape
Rape

Rape, also referred to as sexual assault, is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with or sexual penetration of another person without that person's consent....
 – Lupino directed her first hard-paced fast-moving picture, The Hitch-Hiker
The Hitch-Hiker (1953 film)

The Hitch-Hiker is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two fishing buddies who pick up a mysterious Hitchhiking during a trip to Mexico....
 , making her the first woman to direct a film noir
Film noir

Film noir is a film term used primarily to describe stylish cinema of the United States Crime film, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation....
.

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
Don Siegel

Donald Siegel was an influential United States film director and film producer. His name appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel....
" as a director. In 1952, Lupino was invited to become the "fourth star" in Four Star Productions
Four Star Television

Four Star Television, also called Four Star Films, Four Star Productions, and Four Star International, was an American television production company which operated from 1952 to 1989....
 by Dick Powell
Dick Powell

Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
, David Niven
David Niven

James David Graham Niven was an English people Academy Award for Best Actor-winning actor probably best known for his roles as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton in The Pink Panther ....
 and Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer was a four-time Academy Award-nominated France-born actor. Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s, and continued to act in films, television and theatre over the next several decades....
, after Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea

Joel Albert McCrea, was an Cinema of the United States actor and film star whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films....
 and Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
 dropped out.

Television work

Lupino continued acting throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and her directing efforts during these years were almost exclusively television productions such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured both mystery fiction and melodramas....
, The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is a science fiction anthology series United States television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains television syndication to this day....
, Have Gun Will Travel, The Donna Reed Show
The Donna Reed Show

The Donna Reed Show is an United States situation comedy which aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1958 in television to 1966 in television....
, Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island is an United States Television program Situation comedy originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967....
, 77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television Private investigator#PIs in fiction series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith , and Edd Byrnes....
, The Investigators, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir is a situation comedy based on the The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It starred Hope Lange as a young widow who rents Gull Cottage, near the fishing village of Schooner Bay....
, The Rifleman
The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an United States Western television program that ran from on American Broadcasting Company, from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963, a production of Four Star Television....
, Batman
Batman

Batman is a Character , a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger , appearing in publications by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939....
, Sam Benedict
Sam Benedict

Sam Benedict is a legal drama from MGM Television, starring a 47-year-old Edmond O'Brien, which ran on NBC during the 1962–1963 television season....
, Bonanza
Bonanza

Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....
, The Untouchables
The Untouchables (1959 TV series)

The Untouchables is the name of a television series that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company. Based on the The Untouchables by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Bureau of Prohibition, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a special tea...
, The Fugitive
The Fugitive (TV series)

The Fugitive is an United States television series produced by Quinn Martin and United Artists Television that aired on American Broadcasting Corporation from 1963-1967....
, and Bewitched
Bewitched

Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1964 in television to 1972 in television....
.

From January through September , Lupino starred with her husband, Howard Duff
Howard Duff

Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Bremerton, Washington, Washington, now a part of Bremerton, Washington....
, in the CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 comedy Mr. Adams and Eve, in which they played husband and wife film stars named Howard Adams and Eve Drake. Also, they co-starred as themselves in 1959 in one of the 13 one-hour installments of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Later in her career, Lupino guest starred on numerous television programs, before retiring at the age of sixty, after having made her final film appearance in .

Awards

Lupino has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
 for her contributions to the fields of television and motion pictures. They are located at 1724 Vine Street
Vine Street

Vine is a street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that runs north-south from Melrose Avenue up past Hollywood Boulevard. The intersection of Hollywood and Vine was once a symbol of Hollywood itself....
 and 6821 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out and runs due west to Laurel Canyon Boulevard....
.

Personal life

Ida Lupino (1979)
Lupino was born in Camberwell
Camberwell

Camberwell is a district of London, England and forms part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is a built-up inner city district located south east of Charing Cross....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 (allegedly under a table during a World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 zeppelin
Zeppelin

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 raid), the daughter of actress Connie O'Shea (a.k.a. Connie Emerald) and music hall
Music hall

Music hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to# A particular form of variety show entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and #Speciality Acts....
 entertainer, Stanley Lupino
Stanley Lupino

Stanley Lupino was an English actor, dancer, singer, librettist, director and short story writer.Lupino began his career as an acrobat and made his stage debut in 1913 and first became known as a music hall performer and played in pantomimes at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane....
, one of the Lupino family
Lupino family

The Lupino family was the surname of a British theatre family tradition that could trace their roots back to an Italian ?migr? of the early 17th century....
. She was born in 1918 and not 1914 as other biographies have it.

She married and divorced three times:
  • Louis Hayward
    Louis Hayward

    Louis Hayward was a United Kingdom actor born in South Africa....
    , actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
     (November 1938 - May 11, 1945)
  • Collier Young
    Collier Young

    Movie Film producer and writer Collier Young worked on many films in the 50's before becoming a television producer for such shows as Ironside and The Wild Wild West....
    , producer
    Television producer

    The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
     (1948 - 1951)
  • Howard Duff
    Howard Duff

    Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Bremerton, Washington, Washington, now a part of Bremerton, Washington....
    , actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
     (October 1951 - 1984), with whom she had a daughter, Bridget Duff (b. April 23, 1952)


Lupino died from a stroke
Stroke

A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to a disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. According to the National Stroke Association, a "stroke" occurs when a blood clot blocks and artery or a blood vessel breaks, interrupting blood flow to an area of the brain....
 while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, in August 1995, aged 77. She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
.

Miscellany

Lupino was the titular subject of a jazz homage composed by Carla Bley
Carla Bley

Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
.

Filmography


As Actress

Short Subjects:
  • La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 in film short subject comedy film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 9th Academy Awards for Academy Award for Live Action Short Film....
    (1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 6 (1939
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Features:
  • The Love Race
  • I Lived with You
  • High Finance
    High Finance

    High Finance is the fifth episode of the eighth series of the United Kingdom comedy series Dad's Army that was originally broadcast on the October 3....
    (1933)
  • Her First Affaire (1933)
  • The Ghost Camera (1933)
  • Money for Speed
    Money for Speed

    Money for Speed is a 1933 British film starring John Loder , Ida Lupino, Cyril McLaglen and Moore Marriott. It is centered around the sport of speedway racing, which was at its peak of popularity at the time....
    (1933)
  • Prince of Arcadia (1933)
  • Search for Beauty
  • Come on Marines (1934)
  • Ready for Love (1934)
  • Paris in Spring
  • Smart Girl (1935)
  • Peter Ibbetson
    Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson is an United States black-and-white drama film released in 1935 in film and directed by Henry Hathaway.The picture is based on a novel by George du Maurier, first published in 1891....
    (1935)
  • Anything Goes
    Anything Goes (film)

    Anything Goes is a 1936 in film musical film released by Paramount Pictures adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse Anything Goes....
  • One Rainy Afternoon
    One Rainy Afternoon

    One Rainy Afternoon is a romantic comedy film directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino and featuring Hugh Herbert, Roland Young and Erik Rhodes....
    (1936)
  • Yours for the Asking
    Yours for the Asking

    Yours for the Asking is a 1936 in film film starring George Raft as a casino owner and Dolores Costello as the socialite he hires as hostess....
    (1936)
  • The Gay Desperado
    The Gay Desperado

    The Gay Desperado is a comedy film starring Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, and Nino Martini and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by Mary Pickford, and originally released by United Artists....
    (1936)
  • Sea Devils
  • Let's Get Married
    Let's Get Married

    "Let's Get Married" is the title of a number one song by American four piece R&B group Jagged Edge , from their cd J.E. Heartbreak. It spent three weeks at the top of the US R&B chart in 2000 and reached #11 on the US Pop chart....
    (1937)
  • Artists and Models (1937)
  • Fight for Your Lady (1937)
  • The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
    The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

    The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt is a 1939 in film film starring Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, and Virginia Weidler. The film was directed by Peter Godfrey ....
  • The Lady and the Mob (1939)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film)

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a film featuring the characters of the Sherlock Holmes series of books as created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
    (1939)
  • The Light that Failed
    The Light that Failed

    The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India....
    (1939)
  • They Drive by Night
    They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night is a 1940 in film film starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart. It is filmed in black-and-white....
  • High Sierra
  • The Sea Wolf
    The Sea Wolf (1941 film)

    The Sea Wolf is a 1941 in film black-and-white film adaptation of Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield....
    (1941)
  • Out of the Fog
    Out of the Fog (film)

    Out of the Fog is a 1941 in film film noir starring John Garfield, Ida Lupino and Thomas Mitchell . A gangster falls in love with the daughter of one of the fisherman from whom he Extortion "protection" money....
    (1941)
  • Ladies in Retirement
    Ladies in Retirement

    Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 in film film starring Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy Smith which starred Flora Robson in the lead role....
    (1941)
  • Moontide
    Moontide

    Moontide is a 1942 in film drama film about a man who fears he has committed a murder when he was drunk. It stars Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, and Thomas Mitchell ....
  • Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
  • Forever and a Day
    Forever and a Day (film)

    Forever and a Day is a drama film, a collaborative effort employing seven directors/producers and no less than 22 writers, including an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock, with an enormous cast of well-known stars....
  • The Hard Way
    The Hard Way (1943 film)

    The Hard Way is a 1943 in film Warner Bros. Pictures drama film directed by Vincent Sherman....
    (1943)
  • Thank Your Lucky Stars
    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    Thank Your Lucky Stars may refer to:*Thank Your Lucky Stars , a 1943 film*Thank Your Lucky Stars , a British television program*Thank Your Lucky Stars , a 1990 album by the British band Whitehouse #History_and_personnel...
    (1943)
  • In Our Time
    In Our Time

    In Our Time may refer to:* In Our Time , a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway* In Our Time , a collection of illustrations by Tom Wolfe...
  • Hollywood Canteen
    Hollywood Canteen (1944 film)

    Hollywood Canteen is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars in cameo appearance....
    (1944)
  • Pillow to Post
  • Devotion
    Devotion (film)

    Devotion is a 1946 in film highly-fictionalized biographical film account of the lives of the Bront? sisters. This was Montagu Love's last role....
  • The Man I Love
    The Man I Love (film)

    The Man I Love is a Film noir made in 1947, based on the novel Night Shift by Maritta Wolff....
  • Deep Valley
    Deep Valley

    Deep Valley is a 1947 in film drama film starring Ida Lupino and Dane Clark. A young woman lives unhappily with her embittered parents in an isolated rural home until an escaped convict changes her dreary existence....
    (1947)
  • Escape Me Never
    Escape Me Never

    Escape Me Never is a Play written by Margaret Kennedy based upon her 1930's novel The Fool of the Family.Set in pre World War I Europe, it tells the story of two brothers who are composers, share a flat, and are both in love with two women -- an heiress and a young innocent....
    (1947)
  • Road House
    Road House (1948 film)

    Road House is a film noir drama directed by Jean Negulesco, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle. The picture features Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, among others....
  • Lust for Gold
    Lust for Gold

    Lust for Gold is a 1949 in film western film about the legendary Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, starring Glenn Ford as the "Dutchman" and Ida Lupino as the woman he loves....
  • Woman in Hiding
  • Outrage
    Outrage (film)

    Outrage is a 1950 in film black-and-white B-movie starring Mala Powers. It was directed by noted film noir actress and pioneering female director Ida Lupino....
    (1950)
  • Hard, Fast and Beautiful
    Hard, Fast and Beautiful

    Hard, Fast and Beautiful is a drama film directed by Ida Lupino and starring Claire Trevor. The plot revolves around Florence Farley, a tennis prodigy who is torn between fulfilling the dreams of her ambitious mother Millie who has planned her tennis career, or her won dreams of being with the man she loves....
  • On the Loose
    On the Loose

    On the Loose may refer to:*On the Loose , a comedy film produced and directed by Hal Roach.*On the Loose , a Swedish film directed by Staffan Hildebrand....
    (1951) (narrator)
  • On Dangerous Ground
    On Dangerous Ground

    On Dangerous Ground is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the novel Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler....
  • Beware, My Lovely
    Beware, My Lovely

    Beware, My Lovely is a suspense film produced by Collier Young/Ida Lupino's production company The Filmakers....
    (1952)
  • Jennifer
    Jennifer

    Jennifer, sometimes spelled Jenifer, may refer to:...
  • The Bigamist
    The Bigamist

    The Bigamist is a 1953 in film film directed by Ida Lupino....
    (1953)
  • Private Hell 36
    Private Hell 36

    Private Hell 36 is a black-and-white film noir, directed by Don Siegel. It features Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, among others....
  • Women's Prison
    Women's Prison

    Women's Prison may refer to:*A prison for women.*Women's Prison , 1955 film with Ida Lupino and Cleo Moore*Women's Prison , 1988 film from Hong Kong...
  • The Big Knife
    The Big Knife

    The Big Knife is a film noir film director and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the play by Clifford Odets....
    (1955)
  • While the City Sleeps
  • Strange Intruder (1956)
  • Deadhead Miles
  • Junior Bonner
    Junior Bonner

    Junior Bonner is a film released in 1972 in film and starring Steve McQueen, Joe Don Baker, Robert Preston and Ida Lupino. The film focuses on a veteran rodeo rider as he returns to his hometown of Prescott, Arizona to participate in an annual rodeo competition and reunite with his brother and estranged parents....
    (1972)
  • The Devil's Rain
    The Devil's Rain

    The Devil's Rain is a 1975 low-budget horror film, directed by Robert Fuest. The film is remembered primarily for its over-long and drawnout ending, in which most of the cast melts....
  • The Food of the Gods
    The Food of the Gods (film)

    The Food of the Gods is a 1976 in film released by American International Pictures and was written, produced, and directed by Bert I. Gordon....
  • My Boys Are Good Boys


As Director

  • Not Wanted (uncredited)
  • Never Fear (1949)
  • Outrage
    Outrage (film)

    Outrage is a 1950 in film black-and-white B-movie starring Mala Powers. It was directed by noted film noir actress and pioneering female director Ida Lupino....
  • Hard, Fast and Beautiful
    Hard, Fast and Beautiful

    Hard, Fast and Beautiful is a drama film directed by Ida Lupino and starring Claire Trevor. The plot revolves around Florence Farley, a tennis prodigy who is torn between fulfilling the dreams of her ambitious mother Millie who has planned her tennis career, or her won dreams of being with the man she loves....
  • On Dangerous Ground
    On Dangerous Ground

    On Dangerous Ground is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the novel Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler....
    (uncredited)
  • The Hitch-Hiker
  • The Bigamist
    The Bigamist

    The Bigamist is a 1953 in film film directed by Ida Lupino....
    (1953)
  • Private Hell 36
    Private Hell 36

    Private Hell 36 is a black-and-white film noir, directed by Don Siegel. It features Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, among others....
  • The Trouble with Angels
    The Trouble with Angels

    The Trouble with Angels is a comedy film about the adventures of two girls in an all girls school run by nuns. The movie was directed by Ida Lupino and stars Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills....
     


External links

  • at the TCM
    Turner Classic Movies

    Turner Classic Movies is a cable television channel featuring television commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros....
     Movie Database