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| Ida
Lupino |
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| Director
/ Actor / Screenwriter |
| 1914 - 1995 |
| Born February 4,
London, England |
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Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres:
Drama, Crime Drama, Film Noir |
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Collaborators: Collier
Young (Producer/Screenwriter), Edmond O'Brien (Leading Player), Robert
Clarke (Leading Player), Kenneth Patterson (Leading Character Player),
Archie Stout (Cinematographer), Leith Stevens (Composer), Albert S.
D'Agostino (Production Designer) |
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Highly Recommended: The Hitch-Hiker (1953) |
| Recommended: The
Bigamist (1953) |
| Worth
a Look: Outrage
(1950), Hard,
Fast and Beautiful (1951) |
| Links:
[ IMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [ Reel Women
Profile ] [ Ida
Lupino: Queen of the B's ] [
Bright Lights
Film Journal Article ]
[
The Museum of Broadcast Communications ]
[
Utne Reader Article ] |
| Books: [
Ida
Lupino: A Biography ] [ Queen
of the B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera ] [ Ida
Lupino as Film Director ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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250 Quintessential Noir Films:
The Hitch-Hiker (1953) |
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"Famed
as an actress who specialised in playing strong-willed,
independent women, Lupino was also the only female
writer-director in Hollywood during the 40s and 50s. Because her
three films (Never Fear, Outrage and Hard, Fast
and Beautiful) dealt respectively with an unmarried mother,
a rape victim and a daughter forced into playing professional
tennis by a domineering mother, she is often characterised as a
proto-feminist film-maker...the low-profile of her work behind
the camera is in need of serious reappraisal." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"She was a woman
director of real personality; her pictures are as tough and
quick as those of Samuel Fuller. She
was a pioneer for women, especially because she carved out her
own territory instead of just waiting to be asked...She proved
herself a competent director of second features, and an early
discoverer of feminist themes. Thus The Bigamist is not
just melodrama, but a critique of woman's vulnerability." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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""I'd
love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today
it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or
writer with power...I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to
hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right." -
Ida Lupino |
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"Graphic suspense dramas with psychological overtones make
Lupino's directorial career worth studying." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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