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Ida Lupino 02.04.1918 - 08.03.1995 (77 years old)

Ida Lupino was an Anglo-American actress and singer, who became a pioneering director and producer—the only woman working within the 1950s Hollywood studio system to do so. With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several of her own social-message films, and was the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953. Click here to read more about Ida Lupino

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This actor appeared in the following radio shows

Series	Episode title	Date
mail call	afrs 127 groucho marx gene krupa
Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel (Colgate Sports Reel)	guest ida lupino	0000-00-00
chase and sanborn hour, the	ida lupino	1937-09-05
silver theater, the	challenge for three part 1	1938-12-25
silver theater, the	challenge for three part 2	1939-01-01
campbell playhouse	the bad man	1939-05-19
chase and sanborn hour, the	guests ida lupino and barbara jo allen	1939-07-23
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (229) wuthering heights	1939-09-18
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (280) wuthering heights (repeat)	1940-11-04
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (293) rebecca	1941-02-03
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (368) a woman's face	1942-11-02
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (395) now, voyager	1943-05-10
Duffy's Tavern	duffy's tavern (101) archie's life story (with ida lupino)	1943-10-26
command performance	command performance (093) ida lupino, phil harris, hoosier hot shots	1943-11-20
burns and allen	ida lupino plays a housewife	1943-12-07
suspense	the sisters	1944-02-03
everything for the boys	the citadel	1944-04-11
command performance	command performance (130) ronald colman, ginny simms, cary grant	1944-07-22
cavalcade of america, the	immortal wife	1945-01-15
cavalcade of america, the	star in the west	1946-02-25
tell me a story	the pond	1946-05-07
Encore Theater	encore theater (12) nurse edith cavell	1946-08-20
cavalcade of america, the	abby opens the white house	1947-02-24
cavalcade of america, the	a lady of distinction	1947-06-09
cavalcade of america, the	kitchen scientist	1947-09-08
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (581) the seventh veil	1947-09-15
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (591) saratoga trunk	1947-11-24
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (610) daisy kenyon	1948-04-05
suspense	summer night	1948-07-15
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (629) razor's edge	1948-10-18
hallmark playhouse	woman with a sword	1948-12-09
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (636) the seventh veil	1948-12-13
Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel (Colgate Sports Reel)	guest ida lupino	1949-05-20
suspense	the bullet	1949-12-29
hallmark playhouse	wine of youth	1950-02-02
Greatest Story Ever Told	greatest story ever told (148) a cup of cold water	1950-04-30
guest star	first song out of the jungle	1950-04-30
hedda hopper show, the	guest howard duff	1950-12-10
guest star	fear	1953-08-02
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (877) the star	1954-04-19
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (889) so big (repeat)	1954-09-21
gunsmoke	jokes on us	1958-02-09
suspense	on a country road	1959-05-10

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Great Actress, and Director. Watching a movie now she started in and directed, The Bigamist.

Larry

Ida Lupino was born today in 1918. The actress was the second woman to be admitted to the Director's Guild.

Mike

She had so many great roles, but MY favorite is Mildred Donner in While the City Sleeps. Fantastic movie!

Robert

She had so many I liked. But one stands out when she played a jail guard in a tv movie that she scared the crap outta me. It was in the 70s

Vera

I really love Ida Lupino so much, I have two old movies of Ida Lupino's a star, they are: "They Drive By Night" (1940) and "High Sierra" (1941), Ida was a incredible actress. This picture is a very attractive young lady with her smoking cigarette, I'll never forget her

Alan

All her roles were great but i can't remember the TV series with her and Howard Duff. I loved that show!

Lynn

She was a beautiful talent!

Dixie

Beautiful Lady.

Nona

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL LADY.

Liz

Great Actress !!!

Clecio

She was so pretty

Judith

Loved Ida Lupino she was not only a great actress but a talented writer and director.

Sue

Beautiful and talented

Julie

The beauty and great actress ida lupino!!

Carole

I loved her voice.

Kay

She was a good director also.

Jerry

Beautiful and talented!!

Charles

A beautiful woman and great actress and director!

Mary

Excellent actress, one of the best and most underrated.

Thomas

She was a great director as well.

Mara

She is a pretty lady and very good actress. I like watching her movies.

Linda

Also a great director and producer.

Susan

One of the smartest women in Hollywood back in the day!

Alice

Great actress n director, made some outstanding films. R.I.P.

Becca

Beautiful woman I love the old black and white movies. All around better movies then now

Wayne

Ida Lupino was a beautiful lady and one of the first or even the first female director in Hollywood.

Daria

Ida was a fine actress and an even better director...however from what I read she & Bogie never got along

Frank

Beauty, brains, talent, and personality...Ides had it all!

Paul

IDA LUPINO (1918 ~ 1995) Lupino was an excellent actress during the 1940s and 1950s and became the only female director (working within the studio system) during the 1950s. She was also the first woman to direct a film noir - "The Hitch-Hiker" in 1953. She started in small parts during the 1930s and gained momentum in the 1940s onward in films like: "They Drive By Night" (1940), "High Sierra" (41), "The Sea Wolf" (41), "Out Of The Fog" (41), "The Hard Way" (43), "Hollywood Canteen" (44 - as Herself), "Devotion" (46), "The Man I Love" (47), "Road House" (48), "Woman In Hiding" (50), "On Dangerous Ground" (52), "Beware, My Lovely" (52), "Women's Prison" (55), "The Big Knife" (55) and "While The City Sleeps" (56). Other films she directed included: "Outrage" (50), "Hard, Fast and Beautiful" (51), "The Bigamist" (53) and "The Trouble With Angels" (66).

Jack

She's fantastic. She was the first woman to direct Film Noir. The film was The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Mike

IDA LUPINO was a great actress that should have done more movies but she refused to resign a movie contact that would have given her a longer Movie career and we the movie going public got shortchanged.

Robert

she did have a 25 year continuous film career as an actress and re-appeared in 1972 (until '78) and appeared in approximately 60 films - so that's a fairly good amount. This does not include her films as director.

Daniel

Loved her in Sherlock Holmes! She was ahead of her time as a director!

Pamela

One of my all time favorite Actresses.

Lucci

She was Huge in character and personality...I keep watching her extraordinary singing with a "cigarette" voice of "One for my baby" in ROAD HOUSE and her acting when she rebuff Wydmark at the taxi!

Gerard

She was Huge in character and personality...I keep watching her extraordinary singing with a "cigarette" voice of "One for my baby" in ROAD HOUSE and her acting when she rebuff Wydmark at the taxi!

Gerard

She was one of the finest actress and directors

Chuck

Beautiful and brainy with another great voice.

Thomas

So sexy n beautiful woman, great actress n producer liked her in High Serria, (sp), They Drive by Night, R.I.P. to a fabulously talented n beautiful woman!

Armand

Just a beautiful woman. Uniquely talented, too.

Bill

loved her she did some great films.

Nike

Born in Brixton, England 2/4/1918; died 8/3/1995 of colon cancer following a stroke in July of 1995 at the Los Angeles, California Motion Picture Home. Daughter of comedian-playwrighter- producer Stanley Lupino and actress Connie Emerald. Married and divorced to actor Louis Hayward (1938-1945); producer Collier Young (1945-1951); actor Howard Duff (1951-1984). Stage, screen, and television actress that was a writer, producer, and director. British screen debut in Her First Affair (1932). On screen in Hollywood with Search For Beauty (1934). Last movie was My Boys Are Good Boys (1978). Guest star on radio programs including at least sixteen times on The Lux Radio Theater for CBS and NBC (1937-1954); six times on Suspense for CBS (1944-1959).

Fred

Regular performer on Four Star Playhouse for CBS-TV (1952-1956). Eve Drake on Mr. Adams And Eve for CBS-TV (1957-58), husband Duff playing Howard Adams.

Fred

Director for television programs including episodes of Screen Director's Playhouse on NBC (1955-1956); Alfred Hitchock Presents (The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) on CBS and NBC (1955-1965); Have Gun Will Travel on CBS (1957-1963); The Untouchables on ABC (1959-63); The Twilight Zone on CBS (1959); Thriller on NBC (1960); The Dick Powell Show on NBC (1961); Sam Benedict on NBC (1962); The Fugitive on ABC (1963); Bewitched on ABC (1964); Gilligan's Island on CBS (1964- 1967); Honey West on ABC (1965); The Ghost And Mrs Muir on NBC (1968).

Fred

She was one of the first female television directors.

Susan

Beautiful and truly talented. Not just acting. She was a highly acclaimed director as well. Lived to make movies.

Robert

A very talented lady. One of my favorites

Gary

Super talented woman! One of my all-time favorites.

Gary

I adore Lupino, particularly in her Warner Brothers years. They Drive by Night, The Sea Wolf, The Man I Love, Deep Valley - and especially High Sierra and The Hard Way. A beautiful, talented, accomplished actor, and later producer-director. ❤️❤️

Jerry

This lovely woman was not only an excellent actress, but also a superb film and TV director.

James

She once said she was a poor man's Bette Davis as an actress and a poor man's Don Siegel as a director. As a director she is responsible for at least one classic.

Richard

I was a much bigger fan of Joan Fontaine otherwise love Olivia as well

Jim

Ida Lupino was born in London on Feb. 4, 1918. In the weeks leading up to her birth during the First World War, German triplanes had rained bombs down on the city, killing 68. The terror from above had yielded to dense fog, punctured by a thunderstorm - a dramatic beginning for a future world class actress.

Michael

At age ten, Lupino asked her father to construct a theater for her and her sister. The project resulted in an elaborate structure with electrical equipment, a pit, and seating for a hundred.

Michael

Dubbed "the English Jean Harlow", she was discovered by Paramount in the 1933 film Money for Speed, playing a good girl/bad girl dual role. Lupino claimed the talent scouts saw her play only the sweet girl in the film and not the part of the prostitute, so she was asked to try out for the lead role in Alice in Wonderland (1933). When she arrived in Hollywood, the Paramount producers did not know what to make of their sultry potential leading lady, but she did get a five-year contract.

Michael

Lupino starred in over a dozen films in the mid-1930s, working with Columbia in a two-film deal, one of which, The Light That Failed (1939), was a role she acquired after running into the director's office unannounced, demanding an audition. After this performance, she began to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress. As a result, her parts improved during the 1940s, and she jokingly referred to herself as "the poor man's Bette Davis".

Michael

As rigid and tough-minded as Davis, Ida would often refuse to play a Davis hand-me-down role and was often suspended by Warner Brothers for doing so. It was during those breaks that she would go on movie sets, chum around with the male directors and learned the craft of directing. Blazing new trails, she became the only notable and respected female filmmaker of her era in Hollywood.

Michael