Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino ( born February 4, 1918 in London, England, United Kingdom, † 3 August 1995 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a British actress, director, producer and writer.
Life
The daughter of the then very famous British film and stage actor Stanley Lupino came from a family that had for several generations spawned actor. Ida Lupino made her film debut at 15 in the film Her First Affair, after the director Allan Dwan first her mother, actress Connie Emerald, have wanted for the role, but then decided to Ida.
After a few more films in England Ida Lupino eventually went to Hollywood in 1933, where she began a contract with Paramount with the film Search for Beauty. The next few years brought her little fame and hardly serious roles. In 1939, she starred with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce starred in the movie The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the same year she was able to draw attention to himself as a dramatic actress when she starred in the film adaptation of The Light That Failed, a hard-hearted and unscrupulous woman. The success of this strip earned her a contract with Warner Bros., where she gradually got better roles. They played twice in 1940 on the side of Humphrey Bogart, who was also shortly before his breakthrough as a Hollywood star. Of these two films in particular was High Sierra, from a screenplay by John Huston, a respectable success. The following year, Ida Lupino got good reviews for the lead role in the film adaptation of the Broadway success of Ladies in Retirement. The highlight of her career came in 1943 when they are morbidly ambitious sister of Joan Leslie starred in the movie The Hard Way, which she plunges into misfortune to success with her strong will. Ida Lupino won for her portrayal of the New York Film Critics Award as best female actress. Still, she was often unhappy with the roles that were offered to her and she referred to herself as like " the poor man's Bette Davis ."
In 1950 she made her debut as a director with the socially critical drama The Young Lovers, for which she also wrote the screenplay and that came in the rental on RKO. In addition to Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino was one of the first female directors in the industry. Lupino turned in the following years a few, mostly inexpensive produced films often dealt with sensitive issues such as rape and bigamy. Your biggest financial success they had in 1966 brought together with the comedy The Trouble With Angels, the Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell in front of the camera.
Lupino founded with Dick Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer production company Four Stars Production and staged in the aftermath countless episodes for television series. The mid-1950s she had her own series called Mr. Adams and Eve.
In the 1970s, Lupino was twice a guest star in the television series Columbo with Peter Falk and had an appearance in Bert I. Gordon's monster movie The Island of the monster, in which they had to fight against mutant rats.
Ida Lupino was a daughter from her third marriage to actor Howard Duff, whom she married in 1951 and of which she was divorced in 1984. Suffering from colon cancer, she died in August 1995 after suffering a stroke at her home in Burbank, California.