Ida Lupino
Birthday: 1918-02-04
Place of Birth: Camberwell, London, UK
Biography: Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed seven others. She also appeared in serial television programmes 58 times and directed 50 other episodes. In addition, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ida Lupino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Road House
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for emb...
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Junior Bonner
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck...
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On Dangerous Ground
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effectiv...
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Out of the Fog
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...
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Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison....
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The Man I Love
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, ...
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High Sierra
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort....
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The Sea Wolf
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind....
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Private Hell 36
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bill...
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The Food of the Gods
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a...
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The Hard Way
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small ...
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Ladies in Retirement
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English ...
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While the City Sleeps
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"....
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Beware, My Lovely
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow....
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Woman in Hiding
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
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The Devil's Rain
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and ens...
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Deep Valley
A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain...
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Hollywood Canteen
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert...
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They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “fin...
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Jennifer
A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with ...
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The Big Knife
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a...
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Devotion
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev....
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The Bigamist
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of...
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Lust for Gold
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair...
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Peter Ibbetson
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live wi...
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In Our Time
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in L...
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Escape Me Never
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's ...
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Pillow to Post
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughte...
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Strange Intruder
A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise....
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Backtrack!
Sent to Mexico to buy a bull, a Wyoming cowhand (Doug McClure) teams up with three Texas Rangers to ...
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington....
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The Gay Desperado
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (...
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Artists & Models
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign....
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The Ghost Camera
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to ...
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Sea Devils
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming of...
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One Rainy Afternoon
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young...
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Anything Goes
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner...
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I Lived with You
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him ...
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The Light That Failed
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind....
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My Boys Are Good Boys
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van....
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Female Artillery
An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his ...
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The Lady and the Mob
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business....
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Paris in Spring
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de ...
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Fight for Your Lady
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich...
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Let's Get Married
Political kingmaker Joe Quinn attempts to elevate his daughter's ambitious suitor, George Willoughby...
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nomi...
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Search for Beauty
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine whi...
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Money for Speed
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing....
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Women in Chains
A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person...
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought dow...
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The Strangers in 7A
A building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a sadistic would-be ba...
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Yours for the Asking
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, i...
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Her First Affaire
A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into ...
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The Letters
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letter...
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Ready for Love
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. ...
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Dark Meeting
Billie hires an odd man as the new pin boy at her bowling alley, but quickly fires him because of hi...
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Outrage
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while ...
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Smart Girl
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealt...
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Prince of Arcadia
A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with...
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The Love Race
The Love Race is a delightful musical comedy film based around the fierce rivalry between two motor ...
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High Finance
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. ...
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Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral ...
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Pulp Cinema
Four dozen original coming attractions previews of classic film noir. From A-list biggies to lesser-...
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Deadhead Miles
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18...
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Come On, Marines!
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron...
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I Love a Mystery
Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show ...
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The Screen Director
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is...
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Okay for Sound
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition...
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The Women Who Run Hollywood
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who dir...
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Hard, Fast and Beautiful
When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at...
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Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share ...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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Early Directors on Directing
There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to...
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