Stage Name: Ida Lupino
Birth Name: Ida Lupino
Occupation: Actress /Pinup Model / Movie Writer, Director, Producer
Years Active: 1931–1978
Notable Works: Paramount's great musical Anything Goes (1935) with Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman, then at Warner Brothers in 1939 she appeared in The Light That Failed (1939) based on the Rudyard Kipling novel and well received by film critics, she also appeared in the crime thriller High Sierra (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart and The Hard Way (1943) earned her the Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics.
Date/Place Birth: 4 February 1918(1918-02-04); Camberwell, London, UK, during a WWI German zeppelin bombing.
Date/Death/Cause: Ida Lupino died 3 August 1995 at her home in Burbank, California at the age of 77; she had colon cancer and had also recently suffered a stroke. Her remains are interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Spouse(s) & Children:Ida Lupino was married and divorced three times, she had one child from her last marriage, a daughter, Bridget Duff born April 23, 1952. Summary: actor Louis Hayward (1938–1945); producer Collier Young (1948–1951); actor Howard Duff (1951–1984)
Short Biography: She trained at in England at the RADA (Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts) of London and starred in several British films before disappearing to Hollywood in 1934 to play several years filled with small and insignificant Hollywood movie acting roles before gaining momentum to eventually become a successful accomplished actress, writer, director, and producer in her own right. London born 1918 during a WWI German zeppelin bombing pretty petite Ida Lupino proved herself tougher than most WWII 1940s Hollywood Starlets both on and off the silver-screen. Called by some the “Queen of the B-Movies” or “the poor man’s Bette Davis”, much more than just a great Hollywood actress and beautiful girl to view on screen or pin up on the wall she would come to prove herself as good multifaceted filmmaker and groundbreaker for women in the southern California Film Industry, brave, pioneering female filmmaker garnishing writers, directors and producers jobs as well as her on screen roles. good Ida Lupino biography at MBC Museum of Broadcasting Communication