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Ida Lupino: Stars
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In the early film noir, High Sierra, Lupino stars as a runaway young woman, Marie, in love with both Humphrey Bogart’s character, Roy Earle as well as a Cairn terrier, Pard. The idea of “crashing outâ€, freeing yourself or breaking away, is repeated throughout the film by both Roy Earle and Marie, and it serves as the films overarching metaphor for the characters. Lupino’s performance as Lana expresses the same sentiment of constriction and futility, after the murder of her husband and her rejection by Joe, Lana occupies increasingly restricted and marginalized space, the empty mansion and later prison. Both films are connected through the metaphor of crashing out, but ultimately freedom comes in form of tragedy, Roy Earle is killed after a stand off with the police and Lana suffers a mental breakdown.
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Lupino was a member of the celebrated theatrical Lupino family. His father was actor George Lupino. He was the brother of actor Barry Lupino and the father of Ida Lupino. Lupino published From the stocks to the stars: an unconventional autobiography in 1934.
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In the 1970s Ida Lupino gave memorable performances on two episodes of Columbo (one with Johnny Cash), and starred in a number of motion pictures before retiring in 1978 at the age of 60. She died due to a stroke on August 3, 1995 at age 77.
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Road House stars tough-talking gal Ida Lupino as sultry torch singer Lily Stevens. Chicago singer Lily has been hired to come to the deer country up north to add a little class to Jefty's (Widmark's) road house. The roadhouse is a combination cocktail lounge and bowling alley, quite classy for a tavern and complete with obligatory animal heads. The manager is Pete (Cornel Wilde) and the cashier is Susie (Celeste Holm). Up until this point Susie has not had much competition and her jealousy shows when asked how she likes the "new equipment" (Lupino), Susie says "She's okay if you like the sound of gravel."
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Andrea stars as Sally Otis, kid sister to Petey Brown (Ida Lupino). Petey is a night club singer who decides to take a long-overdue break from the lush life to visit Sally and her two other siblings in Long Beach, California, during the holidays. When Petey arrives she finds sadness and upheaval. Sally has been doing the best she can to raise her young son while holding the family together with her "apron strings," but it's clear to Petey she is going to have to stay a while with Sally to help straighten things out.
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