Mary Ann Anderson was a new sub agent for The Lund Agency in California when she was ordered to deliver flowers to movie star Ida Lupino's home on her birthday. The woman was stunned by what she saw.

In the chaotic Lupino household, Ida often took control, directing her cousins in home movies, already searching for the realism that was to become her trademark. “I believed my own lies ...

Ida Lupino’s bold, subversive films tackled social ... Ann walking back to the picket-fenced home she shares with her parents, grimy and stunned, a traumatised victim of assault.

For Ida Lupino, though ... she was talking about the postwar trauma of people who couldn’t go home again.” Lupino’s films certainly focus on the problems faced by alienated, passive ...

Ida Lupino, the veteran Hollywood femme fatale who ... Lupino, who had been battling colon cancer, died Thursday night at her home in suburban Los Angeles. Her daughter, Bridget Duff, and sister ...

However, Ida Lupino was the only director to also star in an episode, "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine." Directing had always interested Lupino, who would often direct her cousins in home movies.