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Lupino

American  
[loo-pee-noh] / luˈpi noʊ /

noun

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


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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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024

Ms. Lupino appeared in “The Food of the Gods,” one of three Gordon films loosely based on H.G.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Orson Welles didn’t rate a statue, though, and neither did Dorothy Arzner or Preston Sturges or Ida Lupino or Buster Keaton or any of the other quintessentially American directors who helped build Hollywood.

From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2021

Years later, Lupino famously walked out on a $1,700-a-week-contract in 1937 because she was fed up with “lightweight ingenue parts,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

From Fox News ● Sep. 3, 2020

Mrs. Hall-Walker is an admirer of this colour, and her Gateacre Philander, Lupino, and Orange Girl are great prize-winners.

From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

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