In the realm of Golden Age Hollywood, Ida Lupino may not be as well-known as other stars, but her achievements cannot be overlooked. The British actress rose to prominence in the '30s and '40s, with ...

When Ida Lupino was working as an actress under contract to Warner Bros. in the 1940s, she joked that she was “the poor man’s Bette Davis,” partly because she tended to be offered parts that Davis had ...

“There was an absolute and ironclad caste system in the film capital in the 1940s and 1950s,” Ida Lupino once wrote, that “had its primary purpose to exclude females.” A Hollywood star who had a ...

Directing action can seem like a man’s game. That’s in part because for years female directors struggled to get any opportunities, much less genre opportunities. We still talk about Ida Lupino because ...