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{{Short description|British actress and filmmaker (1918–1995)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Ida Lupino
| image         = Ida Lupino Cavalcade of America.JPG
| alt           = A headshot of Lupino looking up away from the camera
| caption       = Lupino before performance on the radio series ''[[Cavalcade of America]]''
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1918|02|04|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Herne Hill]], [[Middlesex]], England
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=yes|1995|08|03|1918|02|04}}
| death_place   = [[Los Angeles, California]], US
| citizenship   = {{hlist|United Kingdom|United States}}
| alma_mater    = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
| occupation    = {{hlist|Actress|director|writer|producer}}
| years_active  = 1931–1978
| party         = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse        = {{Plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Louis Hayward]]|1938|1945|reason=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Collier Young]]|1948|1951|reason=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Howard Duff]]|1951|1984|reason=div}}}}
| children      = 1
| mother        = [[Connie Emerald]]
| father        = [[Stanley Lupino]]
| family        = [[Lupino family|Lupino]]
| signature     = Ida Lupino signature.svg
}}
'''Ida Lupino''' (4 February 1918<ref name="birth">Recorded in ''Births Mar 1918'' Camberwell Vol. '''1d''', p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index</ref> – 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.<ref name="moma-2019">{{cite journal |last1=Morra |first1=Anne |title=Anne Morra presents Ida Lupino's Never Fear and discusses the director's place in film history. |journal=Her Way Magazine |date=2 August 2019 |url=https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/130 |access-date=10 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref> With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several [[message picture|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 film)|Outrage]]'' (1950), one of the first films about rape; ''[[The Bigamist (1953 film)|The Bigamist]]'' (1953), and ''[[The Trouble with Angels (film)|The Trouble with Angels]]'' (1966). Her short yet immensely influential directorial career, tackling themes of women trapped by social conventions, usually under [[melodrama]]tic or [[Film noir|noir]] coverings, is a pioneering example of [[Protofeminism|proto-feminist]] filmmaking.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kemp|first=Philip|title=501 Movie Directors|publisher=Quintessence|year=2007|isbn=978-1844035731|location=London|page=230}}</ref>

As an actress, Lupino's best known films are ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film)|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' (1939) with [[Basil Rathbone]]; ''[[They Drive by Night]]'' (1940) with [[George Raft]] and [[Humphrey Bogart]]; ''[[High Sierra (film)|High Sierra]]'' (1941) with Bogart; ''[[The Sea Wolf (1941 film)|The Sea Wolf]]'' (1941) with [[Edward G. Robinson]] and [[John Garfield]]; ''[[Ladies in Retirement]]'' (1941) with [[Louis Hayward]]; ''[[Moontide]]'' (1942) with [[Jean Gabin]]; ''[[The Hard Way (1943 film)|The Hard Way]]'' (1943); ''[[Deep Valley]]'' (1947) with [[Dane Clark]]; ''[[Road House (1948 film)|Road House]]'' (1948) with [[Cornel Wilde]] and [[Richard Widmark]]; ''[[While the City Sleeps (1956 film)|While the City Sleeps]]'' (1956) with [[Dana Andrews]] and [[Vincent Price]]; and ''[[Junior Bonner]]'' (1972) with [[Steve McQueen]].

Lupino also directed more than 100 episodes of television shows in a variety of genres, including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories.<ref name=Acker1991>Acker, Alley (1991). ''Reel Women – Pioneers of the Cinema,'' pp. 74–78. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York. {{ISBN|0826404995}}</ref> She was the only woman to direct an episode of the original ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' series ("[[The Masks]]"), and the only director to star in an episode ("[[The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine]]").<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/117729%7C72365/Ida-Lupino/ Ida Lupino Biography], Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved on 4 July 2011.</ref>

==Early life and family==
[[File:Ida Lupino 1937 (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|Lupino in 1937]]
Lupino was born at 33 Ardbeg Road in [[Herne Hill]], London, to actress [[Connie O'Shea]] (also known as [[Connie Emerald]]) and [[music hall]] comedian [[Stanley Lupino]], a member of the theatrical [[Lupino family]], which included [[Lupino Lane]], a song-and-dance man.<ref name=Flint1995>Flint, Peter B. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/05/obituaries/ida-lupino-film-actress-and-director-is-dead-at-77.html "Ida Lupino, Film Actress and Director, Is Dead at 77,"] ''The New York Times.'' 5 August 1995. Retrieved on 11 April 2016.</ref> She was raised Catholic.<ref>Interview, Billy Graham Ministries, ''I Believe...The Religious Faiths of 29 Stars'', 1960</ref> Her great-grandfather, George Hook, changed his name to Lupino. Her father, a top name in [[musical comedy]] in the UK, encouraged her to perform at an early age. He built an outdoor theatre for Lupino and her sister Rita (1921–2016), who also became an actress and dancer.<ref name=Flint1995 /> Lupino wrote her first play at age seven and toured with a travelling theatre company as a child.<ref name=TCMMilestones>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/117729%7C72365/ida-lupino#life-events Ida Lupino Milestones], Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved on 11 April 2016.</ref> By the age of ten, Lupino had memorised the leading female roles in [[Shakespeare]]'s plays. After her childhood training for stage plays, Ida's uncle Lupino Lane assisted her in moving towards film acting by getting her work as a background actress at [[British International Studios]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/biographiesofpar00unse|title=Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors 1936–1937|date=1936|publisher=Paramount Pictures Inc.}}</ref>

She wanted to be a writer, but to please her father Lupino enrolled in the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]. She excelled in a number of "bad girl" film roles, often playing prostitutes.<ref name="Donati1996">{{Cite book |last=Donati |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Whjb4eJKkHYC&q=Ida+Lupino+Democrat&pg=PT215 |title=Ida Lupino: A Biography |date=2013-07-24 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-4352-1 |language=en}}</ref> Lupino did not enjoy being an actress and felt uncomfortable with many of the early roles she was given. She felt that she was pushed into the profession due to her family history.<ref name=grisham>{{Cite book | last=Grisham | first=Therese | last2=Grossman | first2=Julie | title=Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition| publisher=Rutgers University Press | publication-place=New Brunswick, N.J | date=23 May 2017 | isbn=978-0-8135-7492-9 | page=5}}</ref>

==Career==

===Actress===
[[File:Ida Lupino still.jpg|right|thumb|Publicity photograph of Lupino for ''[[Moontide]]'' (1942)]]
Lupino made her first film appearance in ''[[The Love Race]]'' (1931) and the following year, aged 14, she worked under director [[Allan Dwan]] in ''[[Her First Affaire]]'', in a role for which her mother had previously tested.<ref name="Hagen2004">Hagen, Ray & Wagner, Laura (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=W63KwX1QtBAC&q=killer+tomatoes ''Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames''], pp. 103–114. McFarland & Company Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina. {{ISBN|978-0786418831}}</ref> She played leading roles in five British films in 1933 at [[Warner Bros.]]' Teddington studios and for [[Julius Hagen]] at [[Twickenham]], including ''[[The Ghost Camera]]'' with [[John Mills]] and ''[[I Lived with You]]'' with [[Ivor Novello]]. She said of her early roles "My father once said to me: 'You're born to be bad', and it was true. I made eight films in England before I came to America, and I played a tramp or a slut in all of them".<ref name=hutchinson/>

Dubbed "the English [[Jean Harlow]]", she was discovered by Paramount in the 1933 film ''[[Money for Speed]]'', playing a good girl/bad girl dual role. Lupino claimed the talent scouts saw her play only the sweet girl in the film and not the part of the prostitute, so she was asked to try out for the lead role in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1933 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1933). When she arrived in Hollywood, the Paramount producers did not know what to make of their sultry potential leading lady, but she did get a five-year contract.<ref name="Acker1991" /> While at Paramount, Lupino played the lead in a stage production of ''The Pursuit of Happiness'' at the Paramount Studio Theatre.<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodreporte1821holl|title=Lupino in Stage Lead|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January–June 1934|publisher=Hollywood, Calif., Wilkerson Daily Corp.|page=1058}}</ref>

Lupino starred in over a dozen films in the mid-1930s, working with Columbia in a two-film deal, one of which, ''[[The Light That Failed (1939 film)|The Light That Failed]]'' (1939), was a role she acquired after running into the director's office unannounced, demanding an audition.<ref name=Hagen2004 /> After this breakthrough performance as a spiteful cockney model who torments [[Ronald Colman]], she began to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress. As a result, her parts improved during the 1940s, and she jokingly referred to herself as "the poor man's [[Bette Davis]]", taking the roles that Davis refused.<ref>Katz, Ephraim & Klein, Fred & Nolan, Ronald Dean (1998). ''The Film Encyclopedia'' 3rd edition, p. 858. Harper Perennial, New York. {{ISBN|006273492X}}</ref><ref name=Orgeron2008>Orgeron, Marsha (2008). ''Hollywood Ambitions'', pp. 170–179. Wesleyan University, Middleton, Connecticut. {{ISBN|978-0819568649}}</ref>

[[Mark Hellinger]], associate producer at Warner Bros., was impressed by Lupino's performance in ''The Light That Failed'', and hired her for the femme-fatale role in the [[Raoul Walsh]]-directed ''[[They Drive by Night]]'' (1940), opposite stars [[George Raft]], [[Ann Sheridan]] and [[Humphrey Bogart]]. The film did well and the critical consensus was that Lupino stole the movie, particularly in her unhinged courtroom scene.<ref>Kurtti-Pellerin (Producers), (4 November 2003). ''Divided Highway: The Story of They Drive by Night'' (documentary short). Turner Entertainment Co., US: Kurtti-Pellerin.</ref> Warner Bros. offered her a contract which she negotiated to include some freelance rights.<ref name=Hagen2004 /> She worked with Walsh and Bogart again in ''[[High Sierra (film)|High Sierra]]'' (1941), where she impressed critic [[Bosley Crowther]] in her role as an "adoring moll".<ref>[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990DE7DC163AE33BBC4D51DFB766838A659EDE Crowther, Bosley]. ''[[The New York Times]],'' film review, "''High Sierra,'' Considers the Tragic and Dramatic Plight of the Last Gangster," 25 January 1941. Accessed: 29 January 2008.</ref> 

Her performance in ''[[The Hard Way (1943 film)|The Hard Way]]'' (1943) won the [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress]].<ref name=Flint1995 /> She starred in ''[[Pillow to Post]]'' (1945), which was her only comedic leading role.<ref name="Hagen2004" /> Although in demand throughout the 1940s, she arguably never became a major star although she often had top billing in her pictures, above actors such as Humphrey Bogart, and was repeatedly critically lauded for her realistic, direct acting style.

She often incurred the ire of studio boss Jack Warner by objecting to her casting, refusing poorly written roles that she felt were beneath her dignity as an actress, and making script revisions deemed unacceptable by the studio. As a result, she spent a great deal of her time at Warner Bros. suspended.<ref name=Orgeron2008 /> In 1941, she rejected a supporting role in ''[[Kings Row]]'' and a lead role in [[Juke Girl]] and was put on suspension at the studio. Within a few months, a rapprochement was brokered, but her relationship with the studio remained strained over the next few years. After the drama ''[[Deep Valley]]'' (1947) finished shooting, Lupino left Warner Brothers having turned down a four-year exclusive contract.<ref name="Donati1996" /> A year later, she appeared for [[20th Century Fox]] as a nightclub singer in the film noir ''[[Road House (1948 film)|Road House]]'', performing her musical numbers in the film. She starred in ''[[On Dangerous Ground]]'' in 1951, and may have taken on some of the directing tasks of the film while director [[Nicholas Ray]] was ill.<ref name=TCMMilestones />

===Director, writer and producer – The Filmakers Inc.===
[[File:Hitch-Hiker Lupino.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lupino (left) directing ''[[The Hitch-Hiker]]'', 1953]]
[[File:The Hitch-Hiker.webm | thumb|''The Hitch-Hiker'' (1953)]]
While on suspension, Lupino had ample time to observe filming and editing processes, and she became interested in directing.<ref name=Rickey1980>Rickey, Carrie (29 October – 4 November 1980). "Lupino Noir," ''Village Voice'', p. 43</ref> She described how bored she was on set while "someone else seemed to be doing all the interesting work",<ref name="Orgeron2008" /> and said "It's so much more fun. Creating it yourself, not just parading in front of a camera".<ref name=hutchinson>{{cite news| last=Hutchinson | first=Pamela | title=Ida Lupino: the fearless Hollywood star who overcame typecasting |newspaper=The Guardian | date=4 November 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/04/starring-ida-lupino-criterion-series}}</ref>

She and her then-husband, producer and writer [[Collier Young]], formed an independent company, The Filmakers{{sic|hide=yes}} Inc., to "produce, direct, and write low-budget, issue-oriented films".<ref name=Acker1991 /><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Collins |first1=K. Austin |title=Ida Lupino, the Mother of American Independent Film, Finally Gets Her Due |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/09/ida-lupino-box-set |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=30 September 2019 |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hicks |first1=Ted |title=Ida Lupino – Filmmaker |url=https://tdhicks.com/2018/11/30/ida-lupino-filmmaker/ |website=Films etc.|date=December 2018 }}</ref> It was formed in 1948 with Lupino as vice-president, Collier Young as president, and screenwriter [[Malvin Wald]] as treasurer.<ref name=Donati1996 /> The Filmakers produced 12 feature films, six of which Lupino directed or co-directed, five of which she wrote or co-wrote, three of which she acted in, and one of which she co-produced.<ref name=Hurd2007>Hurd, Mary (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=kfaOdsk5TI0C&q=ida+lupino&pg=PA7 ''Women Directors & Their Films''], pp. 9–13. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. {{ISBN|0275985784}}</ref> The Filmakers' mission was to make socially conscious films, encourage new talent, and bring realism to the screen.<ref>{{cite web |title=Never Fear (The Young Lovers) 1950 |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/304108 |website=MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art, New York}}</ref> Their goal was to tell "how America lives" through independent B pictures shot in two weeks for less than [[US$]]200,000 with a creative "family", "the ring of truth" emphasized by fact-based stories – a combination of "social significance" and entertainment.<ref name=Huber>{{cite web |last1=Huber |first1=Christoph |title=Mother of All of Us: Ida Lupino, The Filmaker |url=https://cinema-scope.com/features/mother-of-all-of-us-ida-lupino-the-filmaker/ |website=Cinema Scope|date=21 December 2015 }}</ref> In short, low-budget pictures, they explored virtually taboo subjects<ref name=Huber/> such as rape in ''[[Outrage (1950 film)|Outrage]]'' (1950) and ''[[The Bigamist (1953 film)|The Bigamist]]'' (1953).<ref name=Hurd2007/> The latter received rave reviews at the time of release, with [[Howard Thompson (film critic)|Howard Thompson]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' calling it "Filmakers' best offering, to date".<ref name="NYTreview">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/12/26/archives/at-the-astor.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=At the Astor |author=H.H.T. (Henry Howard Thompson Jr.) |date=26 December 1953 |accessdate=17 August 2019 }}</ref> Lupino's best-known directorial effort, ''[[The Hitch-Hiker (1953 film)|The Hitch-Hiker]]'', a 1953 RKO release, is the only [[film noir]] from the genre's classic period directed by a woman.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Muller |first1=Eddie |title=Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir |date=1998 |publisher=St. Martin's |location=New York |isbn=0312180764 |page=176}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cousins |first1=Mark |title=The Story of Film |date=2004 |publisher=Thunder's Mouth |location=New York |isbn=1560256125}}</ref>

Her first directing job came unexpectedly in 1949 when director [[Elmer Clifton]] suffered a mild heart attack and was unable to finish ''[[Not Wanted]]'', a film Lupino co-produced and co-wrote.<ref name="Hagen2004" /> Lupino stepped in to finish the film without taking directorial credit out of respect for Clifton. Although the film's subject of out-of-wedlock pregnancy was controversial, it received a vast amount of publicity, and she was invited to discuss the film with [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] on a national radio program.<ref name=Hurd2007/>

''[[Never Fear]]'' (1949), a film about polio, which she had personally experienced at age 16                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  , was her first director's credit.<ref name="Hagen2004" /> The film was noticed by [[Howard Hughes]], who was looking for suppliers of low-budget feature films for distribution by his recently acquired [[RKO Pictures]]. Hughes agreed to put up financing and distribute The Filmakers' next three features through RKO, leaving The Filmakers total control over the content and the production of the films.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dixon |first1=Wheeler Winston |title=Ida Lupino |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/great-directors/ida-lupino/ |website=Senses of Cinema |date=9 March 2015 |access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref>
After producing four more films about social issues, including ''[[Outrage (1950 film)|Outrage]]'' (1950), a film about rape (while this word is never used in the movie),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190128-why-ida-lupinos-taboo-breaking-films-could-be-set-today | title=Why Ida Lupino's taboo-breaking films could be set today | first=Caryn | last=James | author-link=Caryn James | date=28 January 2019 | publisher=BBC Online | access-date=18 July 2020}}</ref> Lupino directed her first hard-paced, all-male-cast film, ''[[The Hitch-Hiker]]'' (1953), making her the first woman to direct a film noir.
[[File:McCord-Lupino-Clark in Deep Valley.jpg|right|thumb|Cinematographer [[Ted McCord (cinematographer)|Ted McCord]], Lupino and [[Dane Clark]] in ''[[Deep Valley]]'' (1947)]]
 
Lupino once called herself a "bulldozer" to secure financing for her production company, but she referred to herself as "mother" while on set.<ref name=Hurd2007 /> The back of her director's chair was labeled "Mother of Us All".<ref name=Acker1991 /> Her studio emphasized her femininity, often at the urging of Lupino herself. She said of her refusal to renew her contract with Warner Bros. "I had decided that nothing lay ahead of me but the life of the neurotic star with no family and no home." She made a point to seem non-threatening in a male-dominated environment, stating, "That's where being a man makes a great deal of difference. I don't suppose the men particularly care about leaving their wives and children. During the vacation period, the wife can always fly over and be with him. It's difficult for a wife to say to her husband, come sit on the set and watch."<ref name=Donati1996 />

Although directing became Lupino's passion, she continued acting to make enough money to make her own productions.<ref name=Orgeron2008 /> She became a wily low-budget filmmaker, reusing sets from other studio productions and talking her physician into appearing as a doctor in the delivery scene of ''Not Wanted''. She used what is now called [[product placement]], placing Coca-Cola, United Airlines, Cadillac, and other brands in her films, such as ''The Bigamist.'' She was acutely conscious of budget considerations, planning scenes in pre-production to avoid technical mistakes and retakes, and shooting in public places such as MacArthur Park and Chinatown to avoid set-rental costs.<ref name=Donati1996 /> She joked that if she had been the "poor man's Bette Davis" as an actress, she had now become the "poor man's [[Don Siegel]]" as a director.<ref name=Donati1996 /><ref>{{cite web|last=Wood|first=Bret|title=Outrage (1950)|publisher=Turner Classic Movies Online|url=http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?mainArticleId=159651|access-date=10 August 2008}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

The Filmakers production company ceased operations in 1955, and Lupino turned almost immediately to television, directing episodes of more than thirty US TV series from 1956 through 1968. She also directed a feature film in 1965, the Catholic schoolgirl comedy ''[[The Trouble with Angels (film)|The Trouble With Angels]]'', released in 1966, starring [[Hayley Mills]] and [[Rosalind Russell]]; this was Lupino's last theatrical film as a director. She also continued acting, going on to a successful television career throughout the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=Everitt1997>{{cite news | last=Everitt | first=David | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/23/movies/film-a-woman-forgotten-and-scorned-no-more.html | title=A Woman Forgotten And Scorned No More | work=The New York Times | date=23 November 1997 | access-date=6 April 2016}}</ref>
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Title
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |The Filmakers Inc. <br> function
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Screenplay / <br>Writers
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Producers
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Directors
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| 1949 || ''[[Not Wanted]]'' || Production Company <br> (Emerald Productions) || [[Paul Jarrico]] <br> Ida Lupino <br> [[Malvin Wald]] || Anson Bond <br> Ida Lupino || [[Elmer Clifton]] <br> Ida Lupino (uncredited)
|-
| 1949 || ''[[Never Fear]]'' || Production Company || Ida Lupino <br> Collier Young || Norman A. Cook <br> Ida Lupino <br> Collier Young || Ida Lupino <br> [[James Anderson (director)|James Anderson]] (assistant)
|-
| 1950 || ''[[Outrage (1950 film)|Outrage]]'' || Production Company || Ida Lupino <br/> Malvin Wald <br/> Collier Young || Collier Young <br/> Malvin Wald || Ida Lupino
|-
| 1951 || ''[[Hard, Fast and Beautiful]]'' || Production Company || [[Martha Wilkerson]] || Norman A. Cook <br> Collier Young || Ida Lupino <br> James Anderson (assistant)
|-
| 1951 || ''[[On the Loose (1951 film)|On the Loose]]'' || Production Company || Dale Eunson <br> Katherine Albert || Collier Young || [[Charles Lederer]] <br> James Anderson (assistant)
|-
| 1952 || ''[[Beware, My Lovely]]'' || Presented by || [[Mel Dinelli]] || Collier Young <br> Mel Dinelli || [[Harry Horner]]
|-
| 1953 || ''[[The Hitch-Hiker]]'' || Present || Ida Lupino <br> Collier Young || Collier Young <br> [[Christian Nyby]] || Ida Lupino
|-
| 1953 || ''[[The Bigamist (1953 film)|The Bigamist]]'' || Production Company <br> © || Collier Young || Robert Eggenweiler <br> Collier Young || Ida Lupino
|-
| 1954 || ''[[Private Hell 36]]'' || Presents <br> © || Collier Young <br> Ida Lupino || Robert Eggenweiler <br> Collier Young || [[Don Siegel]]
|-
| 1955 || ''Mad at the World''|| Production Company || [[Harry Essex]] || [[James Anderson (filmmaker)|James H. Anderson]] <br> Collier Young || Harry Essex
|-
|}

===Television===
[[File:Ida Lupino It Takes a thief 1968.jpg|thumb|right|Lupino in [[It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)|''It Takes a Thief'']] in 1968]]

Lupino's career as a director continued through 1968. Her directing efforts during these years were almost exclusively for television productions such as ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'', ''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'', ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', ''[[Have Gun – Will Travel]]'', ''[[Honey West (TV series)|Honey West]]'', ''[[The Donna Reed Show]]'', ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'', ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]'', ''[[The Rifleman]]'', ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]'', ''[[Sam Benedict]]'', ''[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]]'', ''[[Hong Kong (TV series)|Hong Kong]]'', ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'', and ''[[Bewitched]]''.

After the demise of The Filmakers, Lupino continued working as an actress until the end of the 1970s, mainly in television. Lupino appeared in 19 episodes of ''[[Four Star Playhouse]]'' from 1952 to 1956, an endeavor involving partners [[Charles Boyer]], [[Dick Powell]] and [[David Niven]]. From January 1957 to September 1958, Lupino starred with her then-husband [[Howard Duff]] in the sitcom ''[[Mr. Adams and Eve]]'', in which the duo played husband-and-wife film stars named Howard Adams and Eve Drake, living in Beverly Hills, California.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tvparty.com/50adams.html|title=Mr. Adams & Eve / TVparty!/ Classic TV|website=www.tvparty.com}}</ref> Duff and Lupino also co-starred as themselves in 1959 in one of the 13 one-hour installments of ''[[The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour]]'' and an episode of ''[[The Dinah Shore Chevy Show]]'' in 1960. Lupino guest-starred in numerous television shows, including ''[[The Ford Television Theatre]]'' (1954), ''[[Bonanza]]'' (1959), ''[[Burke's Law (1963 TV series)|Burke's Law]]'' (1963–64), ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]'' (1963–65), ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' (1968), ''[[The Mod Squad]]'' (1969), ''[[Family Affair]]'' (1969–70), ''[[The Wild Wild West|The Wild, Wild West]]'' (1969), ''[[Nanny and the Professor]]'' (1971), ''[[List of Columbo episodes#Season 1|Columbo: Short Fuse]]'' (1972), ''[[List of Columbo episodes#ep24|Columbo: Swan Song]]'' (1974) in which she plays [[Johnny Cash]]'s character's zealous wife, ''[[Barnaby Jones]]'' (1974), ''[[The Streets of San Francisco]]'', ''[[Ellery Queen]]'' (1975), ''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]'' (1975), and ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' (1977). Her final acting appearance was in the 1979 film ''My Boys Are Good Boys''.

Lupino has two distinctions with ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' series, as the only woman to have directed an episode ("[[The Masks]]") and the only person to have worked as both actor for one episode ("[[The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine]]"), and director for another.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/cteq/the-twilight-zone-the-masks-ida-lupino-1964/|title=The Twilight Zone: "The Masks" (Ida Lupino, 1964) – Senses of Cinema|first=Ben|last=Kooyman|date=13 March 2011 }}</ref>

==Themes==
Lupino's Filmakers movies deal with unconventional and controversial subject matter that studio producers would not touch, including out-of-wedlock pregnancy, bigamy, and rape. She described her independent work as "films that had social significance and yet were entertainment ... based on true stories, things the public could understand because they had happened or been of news value." She focused on women's issues for many of her films and she liked strong characters, "[Not] women who have masculine qualities about them, but [a role] that has intestinal fortitude, some guts to it."<ref name=Weiner1977>Weiner, Debra (1977). Kay Peary, Karen & Peary, Gerald, editors. ''Women and the Cinema'', "Interview with Ida Lupino," pp. 169–178. Dutton, New York. {{ISBN|0525474595}}</ref>

In the film ''[[The Bigamist (1953 film)|The Bigamist]]'', the two women characters represent the career woman and the homemaker. The title character is married to a woman ([[Joan Fontaine]]) who, unable to have children, has devoted her energy to her career. While on one of many business trips, he meets a waitress (Lupino) with whom he has a child, and then marries her.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/85371179|title=The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, 1953)|date=29 January 2014|via=Vimeo}}</ref> Marsha Orgeron, in her book ''Hollywood Ambitions'', describes these characters as "struggling to figure out their place in environments that mirror the social constraints that Lupino faced".<ref name=Orgeron2008 /> However, Donati, in his biography of Lupino, said "The solutions to the character's problems within the films were often conventional, even conservative, more reinforcing the 1950s' ideology than undercutting it."<ref name=Donati1996 />

Ahead of her time within the studio system, Lupino was intent on creating films that were rooted in reality. On ''[[Never Fear]]'', Lupino said, "People are tired of having the wool pulled over their eyes. They pay out good money for their theatre tickets and they want something in return. They want realism. And you can't be realistic with the same glamorous mugs on the screen all the time."<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/showmenstraderev50lewi_0/page/n379/mode/2up|title=Public Seeks Realism in Movies, says Ida Lupino|magazine=Showmen's Trade Review (Apr–Jun 1949)|editor-last=Lewis|editor-first=Charles E.|date=2 April 1949|volume=50|issue=14|page=379}}</ref>

Director [[Martin Scorsese]] noted that, "As a star, Lupino had no taste for glamour, and the same was true as a director. The stories she told in ''Outrage'', ''Never Fear'', ''Hard, Fast and Beautiful'', ''The Bigamist'' and ''The Hitch-Hiker'' were intimate, always set within a precise social milieu: she wanted to "do pictures with poor, bewildered people, because that's what we are." Her heroines were young women whose middle-class security was shattered by trauma – unwanted pregnancy, polio, rape, bigamy, parental abuse. There's a sense of pain, panic and cruelty that colors every frame."<ref name=Scorsese1995>Scorsese, Martin. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/31/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-ida-lupinobehind-the-camera-a-feminist.html "The Lives They Lived: Ida Lupino; Behind the Camera, a Feminist"], ''The New York Times''. New York. 31 December 1995. Retrieved 9 March 2022.</ref>

Lupino rejected the commodification of female stars, and as an actress she resisted becoming an object of desire. She said in 1949, "Hollywood careers are perishable commodities", and sought to avoid such a fate for herself.<ref name=grisham/>

==Personal life==
=== Health ===
Lupino was diagnosed with [[polio]] in 1934. ''The New York Times'' reported that the outbreak of polio within the Hollywood community was due to contaminated swimming pools.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/opinion/25iht-oldjune25.html|title=Opinion {{!}} 100, 75, 50 Years Ago|date=24 June 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=10 April 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She recovered and eventually directed, produced, and wrote many films, including a film loosely based upon her travails with polio titled ''[[Never Fear]]'' in 1949, the first film that she was credited for directing (she had earlier stepped in for an ill director on ''[[Not Wanted]]'' and refused directorial credit out of respect for her colleague). Her experience with the disease gave her the courage to focus on her intellectual abilities over simply her physical appearance.<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywood31fawc|title=Hollywood (Jan–Dec 1942)|date=January 1942|publisher=Fawcett Publications, inc.}}</ref> In an interview with ''Hollywood'', she said, "I realized that my life and my courage and my hopes did not lie in my body. If that body was paralyzed, my brain could still work industriously...If I weren't able to act, I would be able to write. Even if I weren't able to use a pencil or typewriter, I could dictate."<ref name="auto"/> Film magazines from the 1930s and 1940s, such as ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' and ''[[Motion Picture Daily]]'', frequently published updates on her condition.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturedai35unse_0|title=Motion Picture Daily (Apr–Jun 1934)|date=April 1934|publisher=Motion Picture Daily, Inc.|publication-place=New York}}</ref><ref name=":0"/> Lupino worked for various nonprofit organizations to raise funds for polio research.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturedai53unse|title=Motion Picture Daily (Jan–Mar 1943)|date=January 1943|publisher=Motion Picture Daily, Inc.|publication-place=New York}}</ref>

Lupino's interests outside the entertainment industry included writing short stories and children's books, and composing music. Her composition "Aladdin's Suite" was performed by the [[Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra]] in 1937.<ref name="Flint1995" /> She composed it while recovering from polio in 1935.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/radiotelevision00macf|title=Radio and Television Mirror|date=May 1940|publisher=MacFadden Publications}}</ref>

=== Citizenship ===
She became an American citizen in June 1948<ref name=donati>{{cite book|last=Donati|first=William |title=Ida Lupino|year=1996|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=0813118956|page=143}}</ref><ref name=odell>{{cite book|last=O'Dell|first=Cary|title=Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders|year=1997|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0786401672|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenpioneersint00odel/page/175 175]|url=https://archive.org/details/womenpioneersint00odel/page/175}}</ref>

===Politics===
She supported the presidency of [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name=Donati1996 /> 

===Marriages===
Lupino was married and divorced three times. She married actor [[Louis Hayward]] in November 1938. They separated in May 1944 and divorced in May 1945.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CCYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2893,1610363|title=Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward Admit Separation|date=19 July 1944|work=San Jose Evening News|page=11|access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R1AwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xk4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2607,6885844|title=Actress Ida Lupino Files Suit For Divorce|date=5 May 1945|work=St. Petersburg Times|page=13|access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref>

Her second marriage was to producer [[Collier Young]] on 5 August 1948. They divorced in 1951. When Lupino filed for divorce in September that year, she was already pregnant from an affair with future husband Howard Duff. The child was born seven months after she filed for divorce from Young.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sVhOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SgAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6472,986511|title=Ida Lupino To Seek Divorce From Producer|date=3 September 1951|work=Toledo Blade|page=2|access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref>

Lupino's third and final marriage was to actor [[Howard Duff]], whom she wed on 21 October 1951.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KTBQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uwsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5092,423126|title=Actress Ida Lupino Wed to Howard Duff|date=22 October 1951|work=Eugene Register-Guard|page=4|access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref> Six months later, they had a daughter, Bridget, on 23 April 1952.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ncpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aiMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,4935008|title=Ida Lupino Mother of 4-lb. Daughter|date=26 April 1952|work=The Times-News|page=9|access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref> They separated in 1966 and divorced in 1983.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ida Lupino: A Biography|author=Donati, William|date=24 July 2013 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813143521|url=https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813196480/ida-lupino/ |access-date=14 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lCYOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lX0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4336,661479|title=Actress, director Lupino dies|date=6 August 1995|work=The Daily Courier|access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref>

She petitioned a California court in 1984 to appoint her business manager, Mary Ann Anderson, as her [[Conservatorship|conservator]] due to poor business dealings from her prior business management company and her long separation from Howard Duff.

==Death==
Lupino died from a stroke while undergoing treatment for [[colon cancer]] in Los Angeles on 3 August 1995, at the age of 77.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ida Lupino, 77; Actress, Pioneer Director|url=http://ic.galegroup.com.ezp.pasadena.edu/ic/uhic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=News&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=&sortBy=&displayGroups=&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CA156836723|publisher=Albany Times|access-date=10 June 2012}}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Her memoirs, ''Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera'', were edited after her death and published by Mary Ann Anderson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=463212&name=Ida-Lupino-Beyond-the-Camera|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315134939/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=463212&name=Ida-Lupino-Beyond-the-Camera|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 March 2012|title=Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera – New from BearManor Media|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref>

==Influences and legacy==
[[File:Hitchhiker1953.JPG|thumb|upright|Ida Lupino's ''[[The Hitch-Hiker]]'' (1953) was the first American [[film noir]] directed by a woman.]]
Lupino learned filmmaking from everyone she observed on set, including [[William H. Ziegler|William Ziegler]], the cameraman for ''Not Wanted''. When in preproduction on ''Never Fear'', she conferred with [[Michael Gordon (film director)|Michael Gordon]] on directorial technique, organization, and plotting. Cinematographer [[Archie Stout]] said of Ms. Lupino, "Ida has more knowledge of camera angles and lenses than any director I've ever worked with, with the exception of [[Victor Fleming]]. She knows how a woman looks on the screen and what light that woman should have, probably better than I do." Lupino also worked with editor [[Stanford Tischler]], who said of her, "She wasn't the kind of director who would shoot something, then hope any flaws could be fixed in the cutting room. The acting was always there, to her credit."<ref name=Donati1996 />

Author [[Ally Acker]] compares Lupino to pioneering silent-film director [[Lois Weber]] for their focus on controversial, socially relevant topics. With their ambiguous endings, Lupino's films never offered simple solutions for her troubled characters, and Acker finds parallels to her storytelling style in the work of the modern European "New Wave" directors, such as [[Margarethe von Trotta]].<ref name=Acker1991 />

Film critic Ronnie Scheib, who issued a Kino release of three of Lupino's films, likens Lupino's themes and directorial style to directors [[Nicholas Ray]], [[Sam Fuller]], and [[Robert Aldrich]], saying, "Lupino very much belongs to that generation of [[modernism|modernist filmmakers]]."<ref>Scheib, Ronnie. [http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-41-ronnie-scheib-dossier/ida-lupino-auteuress/ "The Work of Ida Lupino Earns Some Overdue Praise".] Originally published in ''Film Comment'', Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1980). Retrieved 9 March 2022.</ref> On whether Lupino should be considered a feminist filmmaker, Scheib states, "I don't think Lupino was concerned with showing strong people, men or women. She often said that she was interested in lost, bewildered people, and I think she was talking about the postwar trauma of people who couldn't go home again."<ref name=Everitt1997 />

Martin Scorsese calls Lupino's thematic film work "essential", noting that "What is at stake in Lupino's films is the psyche of the victim. [Her films] addressed the wounded soul and traced the slow, painful process of women trying to wrestle with despair and reclaim their lives. Her work is resilient, with a remarkable empathy for the fragile and the heart-broken."<ref name=Scorsese1995 />

Author Richard Koszarski noted Lupino's choice to play with gender roles regarding women's film stereotypes during the studio era: "Her films display the obsessions and consistencies of a true auteur... In her films ''The Bigamist'' and ''The Hitch-Hiker'', Lupino was able to reduce the male to the same sort of dangerous, irrational force that women represented in most male-directed examples of Hollywood film noir."<ref>Koszarski, Richard (1976). ''Hollywood Directors,'' Oxford University Press, New York. {{ISBN|0195020855}}</ref>

Lupino did not consider herself a feminist, saying, "I had to do something to fill up my time between contracts. Keeping a feminine approach is vital – men hate bossy females ... Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation."<ref name=Acker1991 /> ''Village Voice'' writer Carrie Rickey, though, holds Lupino up as a model of modern feminist filmmaking: "Not only did Lupino take control of production, direction, and screenplay, but [also] each of her movies addresses the brutal repercussions of sexuality, independence and dependence."<ref name=Rickey1980 /> By 1972, Lupino said she wished more women were hired as directors and producers in Hollywood, noting that only very powerful actresses or writers had the chance to work in the field.<ref name=Acker1991 /> She directed or costarred a number of times with young, fellow British actresses on a similar journey of developing their American film careers like [[Hayley Mills]] and [[Pamela Franklin]].

Actress [[Bea Arthur]], best remembered for her work in ''[[Maude (TV series)|Maude]]'' and ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', was motivated to escape her stifling hometown by following in Lupino's footsteps and becoming an actress, saying, "My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the [[Great Depression|Depression]]."<ref>{{cite news | last=Rasmussen | first=Frederick N. | url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2009/05/03/and-then-came-bea-arthur-the-cambridge-bombshell/ | title=And Then Came Bea Arthur, The Cambridge Bombshell | newspaper=The Baltimore Sun | date=3 May 2009 | access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref>

[[Eddie Muller]] is a fan:
<blockquote>Although her ambition exceeded her achievements, she left a body of work that proved her to be a capable director, a good writer, an excellent producer, and a superior actress. Most important, she was a total pro, and the most multitalented woman in the history of Hollywood.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Muller |first1=Eddie |title=Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir |date=2021 |publisher=Running Press |isbn=978-0-7624-9896-3}}</ref></blockquote>

==Accolades==
[[File:Ida Lupino in The Hard Way trailer 2.jpg|right|thumb|{{center|''[[The Hard Way (1943 film)|The Hard Way]]'' (1943)}}]]
*Lupino has two stars on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] for contributions to the fields of television and film – located at 1724 Vine Street and 6821 Hollywood Boulevard. 
*New York Film Critics Circle Award – Best Actress, ''The Hard Way'', 1943
*Inaugural Saturn Award - Best Supporting Actress, ''[[The Devil's Rain (film)|The Devil's Rain]]'', 1975<ref>{{cite web|title=The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films |url=http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html |publisher=Saturn Awards |access-date=10 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050210040426/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html |archive-date=10 February 2005  }}</ref>
*A Commemorative Blue Plaque is dedicated to Lupino and her father [[Stanley Lupino]] by [[The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America]] and the Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America at the house where she was born in Herne Hill, London, 16 February 2016<ref>[http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php "Stanley Lupino and Ida Lupino Commemorated,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518152923/http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php |date=18 May 2019 }} The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America. Retrieved on 6 April 2016.</ref>
*Composer [[Carla Bley]] paid tribute to Lupino with her jazz composition "Ida Lupino" in 1964.<ref>Haga, Evan. (15 October 2008) [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92364930 "Paul Bley Trio: Darkly Winsome Jazz,"] NPR Music. Retrieved on 11 April 2016.</ref>
*''The Hitch-Hiker'' and ''Outrage'' were inducted into the [[National Film Registry]] in 1998 and 2020 respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-dark-knight-a-clockwork-orange-and-the-joy-luck-club-enter-national-film-registry-4104313/|title='The Dark Knight,' 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'The Joy Luck Club' Enter National Film Registry|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=14 December 2020}}</ref>
*''Starring Ida Lupino'', a series on the [[Criterion Channel]] in November 2024 starts with Lupino's story, followed by several of her films.<ref>{{cite web | title=Starring Ida Lupino | publisher=The Criterion Channel | url=https://www.criterionchannel.com/starring-ida-lupino-2 | access-date=4 November 2024}}</ref><ref name=hutchinson/>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+ Selected credits as actress and/or director
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | As actress
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | As director
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Love Race}}''
| Align=center | 1931
| Align=center | Yes
| Minor supporting role
|
| Uncredited
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Her First Affaire (film)|Her First Affaire]]''
| Align=center | 1932
| Align=center | Yes
| Ann Brent
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Money for Speed]]''
| Align=center | 1933
| Align=center | Yes
| Jane
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[I Lived with You]]''
| Align=center | 1933
| Align=center | Yes
| Ada Wallis
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Prince of Arcadia]]''
| Align=center | 1933
| Align=center | Yes
| The Princess
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Ghost Camera}}''
| Align=center | 1933
| Align=center | Yes
| Mary Elton
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[High Finance (film)|High Finance]]''
| Align=center | 1933
| Align=center | Yes
| Jill
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Search for Beauty]]''
| Align=center | 1934
| Align=center | Yes
| Barbara Hilton
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Come on Marines|Come On, Marines!]]''
| Align=center | 1934
| Align=center | Yes
| Esther Smith-Hamilton
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Ready for Love (1934 film)|Ready for Love]]''
| Align=center | 1934
| Align=center | Yes
| Marigold Tate
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Paris in Spring]]''
| Align=center | 1935
| Align=center | Yes
| Mignon de Charelle
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Smart Girl (1935 film)|Smart Girl]]''
| Align=center | 1935
| Align=center | Yes
| Pat Reynolds
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Peter Ibbetson]]''
| Align=center | 1935
| Align=center | Yes
| Agnes
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[La Fiesta de Santa Barbara]]''
| Align=center | 1935
| Align=center | Yes
| Herself
|
| Short film made in [[Technicolor]], with several celebrities appearing as themselves
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Anything Goes (1936 film)|Anything Goes]]''
| Align=center | 1936
| Align=center | Yes
| Hope Harcourt
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[One Rainy Afternoon]]''
| Align=center | 1936
| Align=center | Yes
| Monique Pelerin
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Yours for the Asking]]''
| Align=center | 1936
| Align=center | Yes
| Gert Malloy
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Gay Desperado}}''
| Align=center | 1936
| Align=center | Yes
| Jane
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Sea Devils (1937 film)|Sea Devils]]''
| Align=center | 1937
| Align=center | Yes
| Doris Malone
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Let's Get Married (1937 film)|Let's Get Married]]''
| Align=center | 1937
| Align=center | Yes
| Paula Quinn
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Artists and Models (1937 film)|Artists and Models]]''
| Align=center | 1937
| Align=center | Yes
| Paula Sewell / Paula Monterey
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Fight for Your Lady]]''
| Align=center | 1937
| Align=center | Yes
| Marietta
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Lone Wolf Spy Hunt}}''
| Align=center | 1939
| Align=center | Yes
| Val Carson
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Lady and the Mob}}''
| Align=center | 1939
| Align=center | Yes
| Lila Thorne
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film)}}''
| Align=center | 1939
| Align=center | Yes
| Ann Brandon
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Light That Failed|The Light That Failed (1939 film)}}''
| Align=center | 1939
| Align=center | Yes
| Bessie Broke
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 6''
| Align=center | 1939
| Align=center | Yes
| Herself
|
| Promotional short film
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[They Drive by Night]]''
| Align=center | 1940
| Align=center | Yes
| Lana Carlsen
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[High Sierra (film)|High Sierra]]''
| Align=center | 1941
| Align=center | Yes
| Marie
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Sea Wolf|The Sea Wolf (1941 film)}}''
| Align=center | 1941
| Align=center | Yes
| Ruth Webster
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Out of the Fog (1941 film)|Out of the Fog]]''
| Align=center | 1941
| Align=center | Yes
| Stella Goodwin
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Ladies in Retirement]]''
| Align=center | 1941
| Align=center | Yes
| Ellen Creed
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Moontide]]''
| Align=center | 1942
| Align=center | Yes
| Anna
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Life Begins at Eight-Thirty]]''
| Align=center | 1942
| Align=center | Yes
| Kathy Thomas
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Hard Way|The Hard Way (1943 film)}}''
| Align=center | 1943
| Align=center | Yes
| Mrs. Helen Chernen
|
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress]]
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Forever and a Day (1943 film)|Forever and a Day]]''
| Align=center | 1943
| Align=center | Yes
| Jenny
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943 film)|Thank Your Lucky Stars]]''
| Align=center | 1943
| Align=center | Yes 
| Herself
| 
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[In Our Time (1944 film)|In Our Time]]''
| Align=center | 1944
| Align=center | Yes
| Jennifer Whittredge
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Hollywood Canteen (1944 film)|Hollywood Canteen]]''
| Align=center | 1944
| Align=center | Yes
| Herself
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Pillow to Post]]''
| Align=center | 1945
| Align=center | Yes
| Jean Howard
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Devotion (1946 film)|Devotion]]''
| Align=center | 1946
| Align=center | Yes
| [[Emily Brontë]]
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Man I Love|The Man I Love (1947 film)}}''
| Align=center | 1947
| Align=center | Yes
| Petey Brown
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Deep Valley]]''
| Align=center | 1947
| Align=center | Yes
| Libby Saul
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Escape Me Never (1947 film)|Escape Me Never]]''
| Align=center | 1947
| Align=center | Yes
| Gemma Smith
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Road House (1948 film)|Road House]]''
| Align=center | 1948
| Align=center | Yes
| Lily Stevens
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Lust for Gold]]''
| Align=center | 1949
| Align=center | Yes
| Julia Thomas
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Not Wanted]]''
| Align=center | 1949
|
|
| Align=center | Yes 
| Uncredited (completed film started by [[Elmer Clifton]]); also co-writer, producer
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Never Fear]]''
| Align=center | 1950
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| also co-writer, producer
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Woman in Hiding]]''
| Align=center | 1950
| Align=center | Yes
| Deborah Chandler Clark
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Outrage (1950 film)|Outrage]]''
| Align=center | 1950
| Align=center | Yes
| Country Dance Attendee
| Align=center | Yes
| Uncredited cameo as actress
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Hard, Fast and Beautiful]]''
| Align=center | 1951
| Align=center | Yes
| Seabright Tennis Match Supervisor
| Align=center | Yes
| Uncredited cameo as actress
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[On the Loose (1951 film)|On the Loose]]''
| Align=center | 1951
| Align=center | Yes
| Narrator
|
| Voice, Uncredited
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[On Dangerous Ground]]''
| Align=center | 1952
| Align=center | Yes
| Mary Malden
| 
| 
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Beware, My Lovely]]''
| Align=center | 1952
| Align=center | Yes
| Mrs. Helen Gordon
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Hitch-Hiker}}''
| Align=center | 1953
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| also co-writer
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Jennifer (1953 film)|Jennifer]]''
| Align=center | 1953
| Align=center | Yes
| Agnes Langley
| 
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Bigamist|The Bigamist (1953 film)}}''
| Align=center | 1953
| Align=center | Yes
| Phyllis Martin
| Align=center | Yes
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Private Hell 36]]''
| Align=center | 1954
| Align=center | Yes
| Lilli Marlowe
|
|also co-writer
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Women's Prison (1955 film)|Women's Prison]]''
| Align=center | 1955
| Align=center | Yes
| Amelia van Zandt
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Big Knife}}''
| Align=center | 1955
| Align=center | Yes
| Marion Castle
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[While the City Sleeps (1956 film)|While the City Sleeps]]''
| Align=center | 1956
| Align=center | Yes
| Mildred Donner
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Strange Intruder]]''
| Align=center | 1956
| Align=center | Yes
| Alice Carmichael
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''Teenage Idol''
| Align=center | 1958
| Align=center | Yes
|
|
| TV movie
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Trouble with Angels|The Trouble with Angels (film)}}''
| Align=center | 1966
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Women in Chains]]''
| Align=center | 1972
| Align=center | Yes
| Claire Tyson
|
| TV movie
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Deadhead Miles]]''
| Align=center | 1972
| Align=center | Yes
| Herself
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Junior Bonner]]''
| Align=center | 1972
| Align=center | Yes
| Elvira Bonner
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Strangers in 7A]]''
| Align=center | 1972
| Align=center | Yes
| Iris Sawyer
|
| TV movie
|-
! scope="row" | ''Female Artillery''
| Align=center | 1973
| Align=center | Yes
| Martha Lindstrom
|
| TV movie
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[I Love a Mystery (film)|I Love a Mystery]]''
| Align=center | 1973
| Align=center | Yes
| Randolph Cheyne
|
| TV movie
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Letters (1973 film)|The Letters]]''
| Align=center | 1973
| Align=center | Yes
| Mrs. Forrester
|
| TV movie
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Devil's Rain|dab=film}}''
| Align=center | 1975
| Align=center | Yes
| Mrs. Preston
|
| [[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress]]
|-
! scope="row" | ''{{sortname|The|Food of the Gods|The Food of the Gods (film)}}''
| Align=center | 1976
| Align=center | Yes
| Mrs. Skinner
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''My Boys Are Good Boys''
| Align=center | 1978
| Align=center | Yes
| Mrs. Morton 
|
| Final film role
|}

==Partial television credits==

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+ As actress and/or director
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | As actress
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | As director
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Episode
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Ford Television Theatre]]''
| Align=center | 1954
| Align=center | Yes
| Petra Manning
|
| "Marriageable Male" episode aired Feb 25, 1954<ref>{{Citation |last=Post |first=Ted |title=Marriageable Male |date=1954-02-25 |work=The Ford Television Theatre |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0581231/?ref_=ttep_ep22 |access-date=2025-06-01 |others=Ida Lupino, Jack Lemmon, Phillip Terry}}</ref><ref>The episode is available on disc one of [https://www.amazon.com/Collection-Operation-Notorious-Landlady-Neighbor/dp/B0024396DI "The Jack Lemmon Film Collection"] DVD set.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Mr. Adams and Eve]]''
| Align=center | 1957–1958
| Align=center | Yes
| Eve Adams/Eve Drake
| Align=center | Yes
| Main cast (66 episodes); 1 episode 1958<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050042/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series 1957-1958) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb]</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''
| Align=center | 1959
| Align=center | Yes
| Barbara Jean Trenton
|
| "[[The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine]]"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Bonanza]]''
| Align=center | 1959
| Align=center | Yes
| Annie O'Toole
|
| "The Saga of Annie O'Toole"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour]]''
| Align=center | 1959
| Align=center | Yes
| Herself
|
| "Lucy's Summer Vacation"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| Align=center | 1960
| Align=center | Yes
| Pamela Mann
|
| "Pamela's Oxen"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Rifleman]]''
| Align=center | 1961
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "Assault"
|- 
! scope="row" | ''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]''
| Align=center | 1961
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "The Last of the Sommervilles"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Investigators (1961 TV series)|The Investigators]]''
| Align=center | 1961
| Align=center | Yes

|
| 
| "Something for Charity"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]''
| Align=center | 1963
| Align=center | Yes
| Harriet Whitney
|
| "One Step Down"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''
| Align=center | 1963
| Align=center | Yes
| Helen Blaine
|
| "A Distant Fury"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''
| Align=center | 1964
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "[[The Masks]]"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''
| Align=center | 1964
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "Goodnight, Sweet Skipper"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''
| Align=center | 1964
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "[[Wrongway Feldman]]"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Bewitched]]''
| Align=center | 1965
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "A is for Aardvark"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Honey West (TV series)|Honey West]]''
| Align=center | 1965
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "How Brillig, O, Beamish Boy"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''
| Align=center | 1966
|
|
| Align=center | Yes
| "[[The Producer]]"
|-
! scope="row"| ''[[It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)|It Takes A Thief]]''
| Align=center | 1968
| Align=center | Yes
| Doctor Schneider
|
| "Turnabout"
|-
!scope="row" | ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''
| Align=center |1968
| Align=center |Yes
|"Doctor Cassandra" Spellcraft
|
|"The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra"
|-
! scope="row"| ''[[Family Affair]]''
| Align=center | 1969
| Align=center | Yes
| Lady "Maudie" Marchwood
|
| "Maudie"
|-
!Scope="row" | ''[[Family Affair]]''
|Align=center | 1970
|Align=center | Yes
|Lady "Maudie" Marchwood
|
| "Return of Maudie"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Columbo]]''
| Align=center | 1972
| Align=center | Yes
| Roger Stanford's Aunt
|
| [[Columbo (season 1)#Episodes|"Short Fuse"]]
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Streets of San Francisco]]''
| Align=center | 1973
| Align=center | Yes
| Wilma Jamison
|
| "Blockade"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Columbo]]''
| Align=center | 1974
| Align=center | Yes
| Mrs. Edna Brown
|
| [[Columbo_season_3#ep24|"Swan Song"]]
|-
! scope="row"| ''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]''
| Align=center | 1975
| Align=center | Yes
| Hilda Morris
|
| "The Chasers"
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Charlie's Angels]]''
| Align=center | 1977
| Align=center | Yes 
| Gloria Gibson
|
| "I Will Be Remembered"
|}

==Radio appearances==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Program !! Episode/source
|-
| 1937|| ''[[The Chase and Sanborn Hour]]'' || 
|-
| 1937|| ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' || ''The 39 Steps''
|-
| 1938|| ''[[The Silver Theatre]]'' || ''Challenge for Three''
|-
| 1939|| ''[[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|The Campbell Playhouse]]'' || ''The Bad Man''
|-
| 1939|| ''The Chase and Sanborn Hour'' || 
|-
| 1939|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Wuthering Heights''
|-
| 1939|| ''Woodbury's Hollywood Playhouse'' || ''For All Our Lives''
|-
| 1940|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''The Young in Heart''
|-
| 1940|| ''[[Good News of 1938|Good News of 1940]]'' || ''The Light That Failed''
|-
| 1940|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Wuthering Heights''
|-
| 1940|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Rebecca''
|-
| 1942|| ''[[Charlie McCarthy|Charlie McCarthy Show]]'' || 
|-
| 1942|| ''It's Time to Smile'' || 
|-
| 1942|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''A Woman's Face''
|-
| 1943|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Now, Voyager''
|-
| 1943|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Ladies in Retirement''
|-
| 1943|| ''[[Duffy's Tavern]]'' || 
|-
| 1943|| ''[[Command Performance (radio series)|Command Performance]]'' || 
|-
| 1943|| ''[[Burns and Allen]]'' || 
|-
| 1944|| ''[[Everything for the Boys]]'' || ''The Citadel''
|-
| 1944|| ''[[Mail Call (radio program)|Mail Call]]'' || 
|-
| 1944|| ''[[The Screen Guild Theater|Screen Guild Players]]'' || ''[[High Sierra (film)|High Sierra]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Those Were the Days|magazine=Nostalgia Digest|date=Summer 2015|volume=41|issue=3|pages=32–39}}</ref>
|-
| 1944|| ''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]'' || ''The Sisters''
|-
| 1944|| ''Suspense'' || ''Fugue in C Minor''
|-
| 1944|| ''[[This Is My Best]]'' || ''Brighton Rock''
|-
| 1945|| ''[[Cavalcade of America]]'' || ''Immortal Wife''
|-
| 1945|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Only Yesterday''
|-
| 1945|| ''Screen Guild Players'' || ''Pillow to Post''
|-
| 1946|| ''Cavalcade of America'' || ''Star in the West''
|-
| 1946|| ''Theatre of Romance'' || ''The Hard Way''
|-
| 1946|| ''Encore Theatre'' || ''Nurse Edith Cavell''<ref name="ndsu17">{{cite magazine|title=Those Were the Days|magazine=Nostalgia Digest|date=Summer 2017|volume=43|issue=3|page=33}}</ref>
|-
| 1946|| ''Tell Me a Story'' || ''The Pond''
|-
| 1947|| ''Cavalcade of America'' || ''Abigail Opens the White House''
|-
| 1947|| ''Cavalcade of America'' || ''A Lady of Distinction''
|-
| 1947|| ''Cavalcade of America'' || ''Kitchen Scientist''
|-
| 1947|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''The Seventh Veil''
|-
| 1947|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Saratoga Trunk''
|-
| 1948|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''Daisy Kenyon''
|-
| 1948|| ''Suspense'' || ''Summer Night''
|-
| 1948|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''The Razor's Edge''
|-
| 1948|| ''[[Hallmark Playhouse]]'' || ''Woman with a Sword''
|-
| 1949|| ''[[Bill Stern|Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel]]'' || 
|-
| 1949|| ''Suspense'' || ''The Bullet''
|-
| 1950|| ''Hollywood Calling'' || 
|-
| 1950|| ''Hallmark Playhouse'' || ''The Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett''
|-
| 1953|| ''Guest Star'' || ''Fear''
|-
| 1953|| ''[[Stars over Hollywood]]'' || ''Chasten Thy Son''<ref>{{cite news|title=Ida Lupino Keeps Dangerous Secret|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5901987/the_pittsburgh_courier/|work=The Pittsburgh Courier|date=20 June 1953|page=18|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = 15 July 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref>
|-
| 1954|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''The Star''
|-
| 1954|| ''Lux Radio Theatre'' || ''So Big''
|-
| 1959|| ''Suspense'' || ''On a Country Road''
|}

==See also==
* [[Lupino family]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{IMDb name|0526946}}
* [http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/325/ida-lupino Ida Lupino] at Virtual History

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