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Ida Lupino was a British actress and filmmaker who worked primarily in Hollywood during the 20th century. She matters because she was a pioneering woman director at a time when few women held that role in the film industry.
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- 1918
- Died
- 1995
- Works
- 5
Top works
- The hitchhiker (1953)
- Outrage (1950)
- The trouble with angels
- The bigamist
- The hitch-hiker
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Ida Lupino was a British actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ida+Lupino">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was a British-American actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system. With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953.
Among Lupino's other directed films, the best known are Not Wanted (1949), about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit); Never Fear (1950), loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953), and The Trouble with Angels (1966). Her short yet immensely influential directorial career, tackling themes of women trapped by social conventions, usually under melodramatic or noir coverings, is a pioneering example of proto-feminist filmmaking.
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