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Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino was a British-American 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. With her independent production company, she co-wrote…
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entertainment · British actress and filmmaker (1918–1995) · film director · screenwriter · television actor · film actor · film producer · television director · director · film screenwriter · writer · producer · also Ida Lupino, Lupino
Born 4 February 1918 · Died 3 August 1995 · Q148669
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2026· 3 entries
“I had decided that nothing lay ahead of me but the life of the neurotic star with no family and no home.”
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-08-03.
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1984· 1 entry
To appoint her business manager, Mary Ann Anderson, as her conservator due to poor business dealings from her prior business management company and her long separation from Howard Duff
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Devil's Rain (1976).
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1965· 1 entry
The Catholic schoolgirl comedy The Trouble With Angels, released in 1966, starring Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell; this was Lupino's last theatrical film as a director
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1959· 1 entry
In one of the 13 one-hour installments of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour and an episode of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show in 1960
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1955· 1 entry
And Lupino turned almost immediately to television, directing episodes of more than thirty US TV series from 1956 through 1968
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1949· 3 entries
"Hollywood careers are perishable commodities", and sought to avoid such a fate for herself
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When director Elmer Clifton suffered a mild heart attack and was unable to finish Not Wanted, a film Lupino co-produced and co-wrote
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The first film that she was credited for directing (she had earlier stepped in for an ill director on Not Wanted and refused directorial credit out of respect for her colleague)
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1948· 1 entry
With Lupino as vice-president, Collier Young as president, and screenwriter Malvin Wald as treasurer
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1941· 1 entry
Rejected a supporting role in Kings Row and a lead role in Juke Girl and was put on suspension at the studio
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1939· 2 entries
And at 20th Century-Fox in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939), after which she returned to Paramount for an important role in The Light That Failed (1939)
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“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
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1934· 2 entries
Lupino was diagnosed with polio in 1934.
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Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1934).
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1918· 1 entry
Born 1918-02-04.
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