Lupino

[loo-pee-noh]

noun

1. Ida, 1918–95, U.S. actress and film director, born in England.

Example Sentences

But as the authors show in this 240-page book, women like Louise Brooks, Ida Lupino and Katharine Hepburn blew through the celluloid ceiling and lifted up generations of women in the movies.

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She wrote elegant, drifting songs that became jazz standards, such as “Ida Lupino” and “Lawns”; yearning, cinematic big-band pieces, such as “Fleur Carnivore”; iconoclastic rearrangements of national anthems and classical fare; and unwieldy, uncategorizable projects such as her jazz-rock opera “Escalator Over the Hill.”

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But many of his films turned a profit and gained a cult following, attracting later generations of moviegoers with their imaginative monsters — rendered with the help of miniatures, mattes and rear-projection effects — and casts that featured actors who were on their way up, like a young Ron Howard, or seeking a paycheck near the end of their career, like Orson Welles, Ida Lupino and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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Despite the fact that his movies featured stars like Ida Lupino and Orson Welles, and despite the eye-catching apocalyptic titles and lurid posters, he generated many flops, a few minor hits and largely negative reviews.

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In the 1950s and early ’60s, his monster movies were perfect for drive-in theaters, where audiences took in wildly improbable plots, silly dialogue and crude special effects: locusts overrunning a miniature city, a gigantic rat hovering over a girl in a negligee, Ms. Lupino being eaten by vast mealworms.

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