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Post by hilda on Aug 11, 2020 11:48:26 GMT
I have never seen any of her film as an actress, but I just watched two controversial films she directed in the 50's. The first was "Unwanted" which dealt with unwed mothers, followed up with "Outrage" focusing on a rape victim. Both were pretty good. I also viewed her bio on YouTube.
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 11, 2020 12:50:16 GMT
Another one was the rough-and-tumble Noir in 1953 called THE HITCH-HIKER with Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy (based on a true story).
If Ida's name wasn't listed on the credits, you'd have thought this muscular movie was directed by Anthony Mann or Sam Fuller or Fritz Lang.
It gets my vote as her best work as director.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 11, 2020 13:44:04 GMT
I’ve seen a few of her movies;mainly film noir such as The Big Knife or They Drive by Night. She was pretty good, especially in this Fritz Lang movie called While The City Sleeps.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 11, 2020 15:18:55 GMT
Another one was the rough-and-tumble Noir in 1953 called THE HITCH-HIKER with Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy (based on a true story). and the villain was played by "Hamilton Burger" aka William Talman 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 11, 2020 15:20:36 GMT
One to Not miss  High Sierra |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 11, 2020 15:23:52 GMT
 Ida and husband Howard Duff in tv series MR ADAMS AND EVE (1957-58) "Two famous Hollywood actors Eve Drake and Howard Adams, a married couple, are shown at home plus at work usually to comedic effect. They wrangle with studio head J.B. Hafner and deal with agent, the affable Steve." |
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Post by kijii on Aug 11, 2020 16:06:54 GMT
I just saw an older Lupino while going through my Peckinpah project: Junior Bonner (1972), here she plays Robert Preston's wife and Steve McQueen's mother.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 11, 2020 17:53:02 GMT
Recently watched Out of the Fog 1941 were Ida was swooned by John Garfield, even if he was a racketeer, since he promised her the sweet life.  |
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 11, 2020 18:14:55 GMT
Ida's two whacked-out performances:
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED (1939) -- as Cockney 'Bessie' destroying going-blind Ronald Colman's masterpiece painting of her in a jealous rage.
THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940) -- as wannabe unfaithful wife locking drunken hubby Alan Hale in the garage with the car motor running so she can create a romance with an uninterested George Raft.
She even got to be a put-upon heroine needing to be rescued by Basil Rathbone in THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1939)
Never Oscared or even nominated, but she was honored by the New York Film Critics as Best Lead Actress in 1943 playing talented showgirl Joan Leslie's pushy big sister in THE HARD WAY.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 11, 2020 18:18:48 GMT
In most of her photos she looks so sad .... here's one that shows her smile ! |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 11, 2020 18:43:48 GMT
I love Ida Lupino. She could play leading lady, femme fatale, and, as in “High Sierra” a sympathetic lover to a wanted criminal. Lupino, mostly associated with film noir and other gritty American movies as actor and director, was born and raised in London, England and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She became a U.S. citizen in 1948. Lupino was born February 4, 1918 into a theatrical family. She arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s where she got some small roles at Paramount but soon moved to Warner Brothers where she started getting her Tough Dame Who Has Had A Rough Life reputation. They Drive By Night (1940) as Alan Hale’s flaky wife who has a breakdown on the witness stand.  High Sierra (1941) in a masterpiece as already mentioned by BATouttaheck  The Sea Wolf (1941) as a cynical prostitute thrown overboard into San Francisco Bay during a ferry boat accident. She and Alexander Knox are picked up by a rogue schooner, Ghost, captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen.   Moontide (1942) she is rescued from suicide by another damaged person. They try to build a life with each other against many odds. Beautiful.  Road House (1948) as a club singer who is the unwitting third point in a love triangle with one of the men being a psycho.   On Dangerous Ground (1951) is she a simple blind lady who lives alone or is she hiding a murderer?  Private Hell 36 (1954) as the femme fatale. Filming this was when she met future husband Howard Duff while divorcing her current hubby.  |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 11, 2020 18:46:56 GMT
She looks rather happy here, could be because she wasn't that tenth screen star who don't use this specific soup.  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 11, 2020 19:12:15 GMT
THE GHOST CAMERA is the earliest film of hers I have seen (recommended on here). Technically she is the romantic co-star despite only being 14?
There was one she did with Errol Flynn- ESCAPE ME NEVER.
Another is DEEP VALLEY 1947 "Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. When a work crew of San Quentin convicts arrives to put in a new road, she takes an interest in Barry, a wild and uncontrollable young man. Despite the advances of upstanding engineer Jeff Barker, Libby opts for Barry and helps hide him when he escapes. However, with the posse hunting she can't hide him forever."
WOMEN IN CHAINS - a tv movie where she is bossing around Lois Nettleton.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 11, 2020 20:00:46 GMT
I have seen two of her movies High Sierra (1941) and They Drive by Night (1940) but good movies and Ida Lupino was great in both those movies.
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 11, 2020 20:06:32 GMT
I love Ida Lupino. She could play leading lady, femme fatale, and, as in “High Sierra” a sympathetic lover to a wanted criminal. I'm with you mike. In addition to your titles, I'd just add DEEP VALLEY as one of my favorites, another film where she played a sympathetic character. She was a wonderful actress, overlooked and underrated, imo, an actress ahead of her time in terms of her naturalism.
And she made history when she became the only woman directing in Hollywood from 1949 until she retired in 1968. Elaine May took those reigns in 1971.
She also deserves recognition for her efforts in the areas of writing and producing, and the fact that in the late forties she formed her own production company with her then husband, Collier Young.
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 11, 2020 21:07:17 GMT
I enjoyed her work as a TV director, and I always felt she should have gotten more roles at Warners--it should have been Bette vs. Ida, not Joan Crawford, who I found rather wooden. She would have been my first choice for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind--she had the beauty, that simmering ferocity, plus a tiny little waist that rivaled Scarlett's. I also wish she'd played opposite James Cagney--the intensity of both of them together would have boiled over.
My favorite Lupino performance was in They Drive By Night, in which she delivers her lines like a spitting cat (it's so cute when she calls her husband a drunken pig and her ex-lover a road slob). She was great in that, d'ya hear? D'YA HEAR?!
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 11, 2020 21:29:45 GMT
I forgot to mention an early film of hers when she was still a British actor: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes” (1939), the second of the 14 Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce films and, perhaps, the best. Lupino plays Ann Brandon whose father and brother have been murdered by a mysterious flying instrument that both strangles and beats the head of the victim. Holmes is determined to protect her.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 11, 2020 21:31:43 GMT
I enjoyed her work as a TV director, and I always felt she should have gotten more roles at Warners--it should have been Bette vs. Ida, not Joan Crawford, who I found rather wooden. She would have been my first choice for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind--she had the beauty, that simmering ferocity, plus a tiny little waist that rivaled Scarlett's. I also wish she'd played opposite James Cagney--the intensity of both of them together would have boiled over. My favorite Lupino performance was in They Drive By Night, in which she delivers her lines like a spitting cat (it's so cute when she calls her husband a drunken pig and her ex-lover a road slob). She was great in that, d'ya hear? D'YA HEAR?! Yes, it is too bad she never shared the screen with Cagney, but it's a consolation that she paired very well with John Garfield, another intense actor, in "The Sea Wolf."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 12, 2020 0:07:34 GMT
Columbo  |
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Post by marshamae on Aug 12, 2020 1:23:11 GMT
She was a great partner for Garfield, full of energy, very sensitive and small.
I loved Mr Adam and Eve - very sophisticated for the time.
She leads the cast in a very strange film, LADIES IN RETIREMENT. She plays a housekeeper to a retired actress trying to stretch the job to enable her to care for her totally crazy sisters, played by Elsa Lanchester and Edith Barret. It could have gone into comedy or horror but it ended up in strange tale.
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