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Ida Lupino: High Sierra
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After her film debut in Her First Affair (1932), Ida Lupino got a contract with Paramount. One of her most notable works from this period is the musical Anything Goes (1935) with Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman. Changing over to Warner Brothers in 1939 led to more substantial dramatic fare. Lupino earned high marks from critics for her turn in The Light That Failed (1939) based on the Rudyard Kipling novel. She ... appeared in the crime thriller High Sierra (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart and The Hard Way (1943), which earned the Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics.
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London-born actress/director/screenwriter Ida Lupino came from a family of performers. She played small parts in Hollywood films through the 1930s until she starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra (1941), which led to bigger roles in films of the '40s. Early on, she appeared in Peter Ibbetson (1935), Anything Goes (1936), Artists and Models (1937), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), and The Light That Failed (1939), among others.
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T[O]day Ida Lupino is remembered as a glamorous star of the 30's and 40's, and as a woman breaking into Hollywood directing in the 1950's by herself. She is remembered today especially for her two roles in two Lone Pine films, as the star of HIGH SIERRA and the director and writer of THE HITCH-HIKER.
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London-born actress/director/screenwriter Ida Lupino came from a family of performers. She played small parts in Hollywood films through the 1930s until she starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra (1941), which led to bigger roles in films of the '40s. Early on, she appeared in Peter Ibbetson...Read More
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|| Ida Lupino wrote and directed this one, an unusual thing for a woman in 1953, even though this was her fourth or fifth film as a director in the masculine world of the B-movie thriller. She was an experienced actress from a theatrical British family, today best remembered for her role in High Sierra (1941), where she plays a bad girl love interest of Humphrey Bogart, the doomed bank robber "Mad Dog" Roy Earle who dies in a shoot-out in the rocks way up above the tree-line. So one is tempted to look for traces of the female sensibility in The Hitch-Hiker, which, despite its neo-realist approach, is a modern Western. A harsh impersonal desert replaces a harsh impersonal city, and large period autos replace horses.
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Synopsis: Just as she had in High Sierra (1941), Ida Lupino enjoys a brief moment of bliss with a man on the run in this highly emotional drama from Warner Bros. She plays Libby, a mountain girl nearly deprived of speech due to her rather hostile environment in general and repressive home life inRead More
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