Warner Brothers studio chief Jack Warner relates a curious story about actress Ida Lupino in his 1965 book, *My First Hundred Years in Hollywood*. The story takes place during the filming of the 1940 drama *They Drive by Night*—22-year-old Ida Lupino's first film at Warner Brothers, after seven years in... Continue reading

TCM is devoting an entire day to Ida Lupino movies on Friday, August 2, as part of its annual *Summer Under the Stars* programming for the month of August. This is the first such day for Lupino since 2009. TCM normally airs from zero to two Lupino movies per month,... Continue reading

Bette Davis and Ida Lupino were two of the top dramatic actresses in Hollywood in the 1940s. For seven years they overlapped at the same studio—Warner Brothers—yet they had little personal interaction and never acted in a movie together. There was one film, though, where the pairing of Davis and... Continue reading

The [Linda Darnell centennial blogathon](https://musingsofaclassicfilmaddict.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/the-linda-darnell-blogathon-is-here/) presented an opportunity for me to learn more about this classic Hollywood star that I barely knew. At the time the blogathon was announced, I had only seen six of her movies. My favorites were *Hangover Square* (1945) and *Unfaithfully Yours* (1948). The others were... Continue reading

Three and a half years ago, I started a series of posts on Twitter going through each of the films that Ida Lupino made as an actress and director. My idea was to use this project as a distraction from the stress of the early days of the Covid pandemic,... Continue reading

Earlier this year, the noirish gothic thriller, *Jennifer* (1953), starring Ida Lupino and Howard Duff, was given its first-ever home video release by [Imprint Films](https://viavision.com.au/shop/essential-film-noir-collection-4-imprint-collection-210-213/). This release is a pristine blu-ray—a vast improvement over the rough copies circulating in recent years. Finally we have a version in which the stunning... Continue reading

>*I was the guest who never left and became the fourth star of *Four Star Playhouse* and loved every minute of it—and never missed directing.* >— Ida Lupino In late 1953, Ida Lupino approached a major transition in her career as Hollywood movie star-turned-independent producer and director. Lupino, at age... Continue reading

The paths of two fascinating women from the Golden Age of Hollywood intersected very early in their careers—an intersection illustrated by this photo of three teenagers made up to portray much older women. Only one of these two women is in this picture. At center is Ida Lupino, future movie... Continue reading

This is a story inspired by one press photo of Tyrone Power and Ida Lupino standing at an NBC radio microphone, taken in February, 1939. The year 1939 is frequently mentioned as the best ever for Hollywood films, with legendary films such as *The Wizard of Oz* and *Gone With... Continue reading

*This brief book review is a contribution to the [2022 Classic Film Summer Reading Challenge](http://www.outofthepastblog.com/p/summer-reading-classic-film-book.html),, run by Raquel Stecher of the Out of the Past blog.* In 1977, Jerry Vermilye published a small booklet about Ida Lupino's career as part of a series of such booklets, Pyramid Illustrated History of... Continue reading

*This brief book review is a contribution to the [2022 Classic Film Summer Reading Challenge](http://www.outofthepastblog.com/p/summer-reading-classic-film-book.html), run by Raquel Stecher of the Out of the Past blog.* After re-watching *Ziegfeld Girl* (1941), the film that turned Lana Turner into a big star, I decided it was past time to learn more... Continue reading

Over the last few years, I've done a substantial amount of research and writing on Ida Lupino's career. Here is a summary of the articles I've written in that time, ordered roughly chronologically by the time period they are about. There is clearly a big gap between 1949 and 1963,... Continue reading

This 1936 article offers a fascinating glimpse into Ida Lupino when she was still at a very early stage of her life and career. This article purportedly contains the words of her mother, Connie Lupino, filtered through a writer for the film magazine, *Hollywood*. It was published in the February... Continue reading

A famous quote on classic Hollywood glamour photography is attributed to 1940s movie star and inventor Hedy Lamarr: >Just stand still and look stupid. Later variants expanded this to "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." (See [quoteinvestigator.com](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/12/glamour/).) Recently, I ran... Continue reading

Here is an article, written by Ida Lupino herself during the height of World War 2, about her experiences visiting with wounded veterans. Her husband at the time, Louis Hayward, had returned a few months earlier from his harrowing experience overseas at the Battle of Tarawa in the South Pacific.... Continue reading

Background: The article here describes events on the set of the movie *On Dangerous Ground* (1951), starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan, and directed by Nicholas Ray. The movie is referred to by its working title, *Mad With Much Heart*. Just before starting her work in this movie, Lupino had... Continue reading

To celebrate the memory of dear departed classic film champion and [blogger](https://www.caftanwoman.com/) Patricia Nolan-Hall, for ["The Caftan Woman Blogathon"](https://www.ladyevesreellife.com/2022/05/the-caftan-woman-blogathon.html), I am covering a time in the life and career of Ida Lupino that Paddy had touched upon in her writing a few years ago. Paddy contributed an article to the... Continue reading

This Sheilah Graham article was published shortly after Ida Lupino completed filming for the western noir film *Lust for Gold*, which is referred to by its working title of *Greed* in the article. The version below is from the Dayton Daily News, January 16, 1949—seventy-three years ago today. The headline... Continue reading

The 1941 Warner Brothers film *High Sierra* was a landmark in the careers of its stars, Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart—marking a transition from years of frustration to full-fledged stardom for both. *High Sierra* provided the first starring role for Bogart in a prestige project, and it was Lupino's first... Continue reading

This brief book review is a contribution to the [2021 Classic Film Summer Reading Challenge](http://www.outofthepastblog.com/p/summer-reading-classic-film-book.html), run by Raquel Stecher of the Out of the Past blog. *The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* by Greg Mitchell tells a very interesting story. It... Continue reading

This is a story from a critical, early phase of Ida Lupino's multi-decade long career in Hollywood—from a time when acting and music were her pursuits and her directing career lay far off—from a time when she was well-known, but still an up-and-comer and not yet a major star. It... Continue reading

This brief book review is a contribution to the [2021 Classic Film Summer Reading Challenge](http://www.outofthepastblog.com/p/summer-reading-classic-film-book.html), run by Raquel Stecher of the Out of the Past blog. Aside from a brief introduction by the editor, the 1971 book *Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines* is a curated collection of articles from... Continue reading

This brief book review is a contribution to the [2021 Classic Film Summer Reading Challenge](http://www.outofthepastblog.com/p/summer-reading-classic-film-book.html), run by Raquel Stecher of the Out of the Past blog. *Ladies in Retirement* is an excellent play. The title doesn't quite indicate what to expect, but it could be considered a gothic thriller. Some... Continue reading

This brief book review is my contribution to the [2021 Classic Film Summer Reading Challenge](http://www.outofthepastblog.com/p/summer-reading-classic-film-book.html), run by Raquel Stecher of the Out of the Past blog. (I originally posted a variant of this on Goodreads.) #classicfilmreading *Phantom Lady* was an interesting, well-written, well-researched biography about a previously neglected person in... Continue reading

The film noir classic *Road House* (1948) contains one of Ida Lupino's most compelling performances in a career full of them. It was made at a crossroads of her life and career, when she was in the middle of an extended transition from leading actress to being a writer, producer,... Continue reading