Ida Lupino has not been treated well by history. She was the niece of the English music hall legend Lupino Lane who later became a silent movie comedy star. Her father was a famed music hall performer and her family was renown in the U.K.
During her peak, she was a film star and became one of the first female directors in movies and television. She directed several motion pictures and over 100 episodes of television programs. She dealt with the male hierarchy in Hollywood and overcame the rampant chauvinism first producing independent films with her second husband, Collier Young. She eventualy became a top director of films that favored a unique touch in film noir. By the 1960s she had become a prolific television director. The biography below from TCM details that.
Lupino was sadly a long term alcoholic and drug abuser that derailed her career. She ended up…
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