Noir Factory Podcast #20: Ida Lupino – Hollywood Legend

Ida Lupino“My agent told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England – I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.” – Ida Lupino

There are certain family names in Hollywood make you sit up and take notice. Today those names are the Fonda and the Bridges, Coppola and Sheen.

It wasn’t any different in the early days of Tinseltown. The names were different, but royalty was still royalty. Back then if you were a Barrymore than it caught people’s attention, and if you were a Huston, then folks wanted to see what you had.

For Ida Lupino, the family tree she grew out of was just as solid and sturdy as any in Hollywood, but the roots went deeper than most. She wasn’t a Coppola or a Barrymore. She was a Lupino.

And that name had a weight all of its own.

SOURCES:

Donati, W. (1996). Ida Lupino: A Biography. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.

Lupino, I., & Anderson, M. A. (2011). Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera. Albany, GA: BearManor Media.

Ida Lupino, Film Actress and Director, Is Dead at 77. (1995). http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/05/obituaries/ida-lupino-film-actress-and-director-is-dead-at-77.html

Dixon, W. W. (2015). Ida Lupino. http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/great-directors/ida-lupino/

 

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