Ida LupinoFilmography

My Boys Are Good Boys

Actors: Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Without considering the consequences, a group of juvenile delinquents hatch a plan to rob an armored car. The boys land in prison for their efforts and end up breaking the hearts of their parents (Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Charlie's Angels: I Will Be Remembered

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Ida Lupino guest stars as Gloria Gibson, a former movie queen who hopes to stage a spectacular comeback. Alas, someone seems determined to sabotage Gloria's return by systemically driving her mad -- and stealing all her valuable artwork in the process. Investigating, the Angels discover that there Read More

The Food of the Gods

Actors: Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino, Jon Cypher

Synopsis: Based on a novel by H. G. Wells, a group of bloodthirsty, oversized creatures (including rats, chickens, wasps, and worms) have taken over a remote island after ingesting a mysterious growth known as "Food of the Gods." It is up to an unusual group of people to put an end to this animal threat. Read More

The Devil's Rain

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: This horror oddity tells the story of a well-networked throng of devil-worshipers populating a small Arizona town who possess a strange crystal icon which houses the captive souls of their sacrificial victims. The coven, led by the thick-browed Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine), are also Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Blockade

Synopsis: With only fragmentary evidence at their disposal, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) search for the person who raped and murdered a young waitress. Meanwhile, the killer (Don Stroud) and his reluctant accomplice (Charles Martin Smith) are holed up in the home of two innocent Read More

The Letters

Actors: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Henry Jones, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Lesley Ann Warren, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Letters begins with the crash of a U.S. mail plane. One year later, cheerful postman Henry Jones delivers the long-delayed letters. These overdue missives profoundly affect the lives of (a) a man who's deserted his wife; (b) a woman anxious to break up her daughter's romance; and (c) a pianist Read More

I Love a Mystery

Actors: David Hartman, Deanna Lund, Ida Lupino, Hagan Beggs

Synopsis: I Love a Mystery was a campy TV revival of Phillips Lord's old radio series. The three adventure-loving heroes are Jack, Doc and Reggie (Les Crane, David Hartman and Hagan Beggs), insurance investigators hired to tackle a mystery at a remote island mansion. Ida Lupino plays a domineering matriarch Read More

Female Artillery

Actors: Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: The made for TV Female Artillery is a comedy, just in case the title didn't tip you off. Set in the Old West, the film stars Dennis Weaver as Deke Chambers, an outlaw on the lam from his old gang. Joining a wagon train, Deke aligns himself with a group of tough, well-armed pioneer women. When the Read More

Junior Bonner

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to Read More

The Strangers in 7A

Actors: Andy Griffith, Michael Brandon, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to Read More

Deadhead Miles

Actors: Alan Arkin, Paul Benedict, Hector Elizondo, Oliver Clark, Charles Durning

Synopsis: One of Terrence Malick's early screenwriting efforts, this loosely-structured road movie finds a questionably sane long-distance trucker named Cooper (Alan Arkin) winding his way through the heart of America. An employee of a questionable hauling outfit who has been assigned to drive a newly Read More

Women in Chains

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Women in Chains is strictly for those who enjoy knowing what's coming next. Lois Nettelton stars as a probation officer investigating prison conditions. To better facilitate her studies, she adopts an assumed name and has herself thrown into jail as a convict. Ida Lupino (but of Read More

The Perfect Image

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Perfect Image stars Gene Barry as Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard. Howard has recently been instrumental in getting Hal Holbrook elected as mayor of Chicago. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that Holbrook is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Crime Read More

Family Affair: The Return of Maudie

Synopsis: In this sequel to the fourth-season episode "Maudie", Ida Lupino returns in the role of wealthy British widow Lady Marchwood. As established in the earlier episode, Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) had been in love with her ladyship way back when her knew her as a humble London barmaid named Maudie. Read More

Backtrack

Actors: Neville Brand, Doug McClure, Peter Brown, William Smith

Synopsis: The fans of television shows The Virginian and Laredo will delight to the combined casts of the two popular series for Backtrack. Ramrod (James Drury) and Trampas (Doug McClure) are shown meeting for the first time as they go to work on the Shilo Ranch. Reese (Neville Brand) Chad (Peter Brown) and Read More

Family Affair: Maudie

Synopsis: Ida Lupino guest stars as Lady Marchwood, a very wealthy English widow. Her Ladyship makes quite an impression on Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot), who can remember when she was a humble London barmaid named Maude--and, incidentally, French's sweetheart. Now Lady Marchwood has summoned French back to Read More

Gilligan's Island: The Producer

Crew: Director

Actors: Phil Silvers

Synopsis: Phil Silvers, whose own Gladasya Productions held a controlling interest in Gilligan's Island, appears in this classic episode as celebrated Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba. While on a world-wide talent search for his latest epic, Hecuba lands on the Castaways' island. Hoping to persuade the Read More

The Trouble With Angels

Crew: Director

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Gypsy Rose Lee, Camilla Sparv, June Harding

Synopsis: The Trouble With Angels opens on the first day of school for a new batch of students at St. Francis Academy, run by a very strong-willed Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). She is used to having things her way, but she may have met her match in the headstrong and independent Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills Read More

Gilligan's Island: The Return of Wrongway Feldman

Crew: Director

Actors: Hans Conried

Synopsis: Hans Conried returns in the role of Wrongway Feldman, the world's most incompetent aviator. Landing his ancient aircraft on the island, Feldman raises rescue hopes amongst the castaways. Unfortunately, since making his last visit to the island, good old "Wrongway" has decided to renounce Read More

Bewitched: A Is For Aardvark

Crew: Director

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, David White

Synopsis: Laid low by a virus, Darrin is home in bed -- and Samantha is worn to a frazzle waiting on her husband hand and foot. Hoping for a little peace and quiet, Sam secretly endows Darrin with some of her magical powers so that he can fend for himself. But as everyone knows, a little witchcraft can be a Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Masks

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Keith, Virginia Gregg, Milton Selzer, Alan Sues, Brooke Hayward

Synopsis: On the eve of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, dying millionaire Jason Foster (Robert Keith) summons his greedy relatives to his mansion. In a faint but firm voice, Foster informs his niece Emily (Virginia Gregg), nephew-in-law Wilfred (Milton Selzer), and Emily and Wilfred's despicable offspring Read More

Gilligan's Island: Wrongway Feldman

Crew: Director

Actors: Hans Conried

Synopsis: Hans Conried has the honor of being Gilligan's Island's first guest star in the role of "Wrongway" Feldman, a fabled aviator who disappeared while flying around the world in 1931. Turns out that, for the past 33 years, Feldman has been living on the same island where the castaways currently Read More

Gilligan's Island: Goodnight Sweet Skipper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The only person on the island who knows how to repair the radio transmitter is the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.). Unfortunately, the Skipper can only rememeber the instructions when he's asleep and dreaming. As the possibility of rescue in the form of the famous aviatrix "The Vagabond Lady" looms large Read More

The Untouchables: The Man in the Cooler

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having been repeatedly denied parole, imprisoned bootlegger Al Remp (J.D. Cannon) faces another setback when he is shunted off to Solitary. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) figures that this is the right psychological moment to approach Remp with a deal. In exchange for a reduced sentence, Remp is to Read More

The Untouchables: The Torpedo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Holly Westra (Charles McGraw) has been chief "enforcer" for gangster Victor Kurtz (John Anderson) for years, but age and infirmity may be catching up with the old gunman. In fact, there's a strong possibility that Holly may not have enough nerve to defend Kurtz from a rival gangster--especially Read More

The Fugitive: Fatso

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Arrested for a traffic violation in a small town, Kimble (David Janssen), alias "Bill Carter," finds himself sharing a cell with Davy "Fatso" Lambert, who'd been hauled in on a charge of public drunkenness. Friendless and completely lacking in self-esteem, Davy pathetically latches onto Kimble Read More

The Fugitive: Glass Tightrope

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Posing as "Harry Carson", Kimble (David Janssen) witnesses an accidental homicide committed by wealthy Martin Rowland (Leslie Nielsen). When a drifter named Arthur Tibbets (Jay Adler) is arrested for the killing, Kimble worries that if he comes forward to exonerate Tibbets, he is almost certain to Read More

The Fugitive: Garden House

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Now travelling under the name "Sanford", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) takes a job at the Long Island estate of wealthy Harlan Guthrie (Robert Webber). It doesn't take Kimble long to figure out that Guthrie only married his long-suffering wife Ann (Peggy McCay) for her money, and that Read More

The Untouchables: A Fist of Five

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In his final Untouchables appearance, Lee Marvin is cast as Chicago cop Mike Brannon, a veteran of fifteen years on the force. Alas, Brannon's experience means very little when he is suspended after mobster Tony Lamberto (Frank DeKova) complains that Mike has roughed up one of his "boys". Outraged Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Crime for Mothers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Alcoholic Lottie Mead (Claire Trevor) bursts into the home of Ralph and James Birdwell (Robert Sampson, Patricia Smith), the couple who have been caring for Lottie's daughter ever since the girl's mother deserted her. Now Lottie declares that she will take the girl away from the Birdwells unless Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Sybilla

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Upon wedding the lovely Sybilla (Barbara Bel Geddes), lifelong bachelor Horace Meade (Alexander Scourby) has second thoughts and asks for a divorce. When she refuses to give him one, he begins making entries in his diary, apparently plotting Sybilla's murder. In truth, he is only fantasizing, but Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Trial

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Wealthy Morgan Gibbs (Robert F. Simon) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to locate Gibbs' son David (Bud Slater), a fugitive from justice, and bring him back alive. Shortly thereafter, Paladin returns with David's dead body in tow. Accused of murdering the boy in order to collect a $500 body, Paladin Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Day of the Badman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hired by elderly Cynthia Parker (Eleanor Audley), Paladin heads to Cedar Wells to rout out the town's resident "bad guy" Amos Saint (Don O'Kelly) and his gang. Paladin is also supposed to persuade Cynthia's timid nephew, schoolteacher Laredo Perkins (William Joyce, to return to the East. But Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Lady on the Wall

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The only pleasure afforded the half-crazed residents of a ghost town called Bonanza is the faded portrait of a beautiful woman which hangs on the wall of the saloon. When the portrait turns up missing, the locals blame the only stranger in their midst--namely, Paladin (Richard Boone). Ultimately Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Lady with a Gun

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is among those startled when Miss Macintosh (Paula Raymonds) walks into the lobby of the Hotel Carleton and begins firing a rifle. It turns out that Miss Macintosh had been gunning for Rudy Rossback (Jack Weston), the man who killed her brother during the Civil War. Read More

Bonanza: The Saga of Annie O'Toole

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Ida Lupino is cast as the titular Annie O'Toole, who along with her father (John Patrick) arrives in Washoe Diggings with a gold claim filed by her fiancé Swede Lumberg (Alan Hale Jr.). When Annie's father dies, Adam Cartwright helps her establish a restaurant to keep her solvent. Annie is going Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

Actors: Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Ted de Corsia, Alice Frost, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Ida Lupino stars as Barbara Jean Trenton, a 1930s movie queen who refuses to admit that she's grown too old to play romantic roles. As her loyal agent Danny Weiss (Martin Balsam) looks on with a mixture of pity and disgust, Barbara insists upon sitting in her Hollywood mansion watching her old Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Man Who Lost

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Benjamin Coey (Mort Mills) insists that he is innocent of the murder of a man named Bryson, but the fact that he has molested Bryson's wife (Barbara Hayden) and killed two members of the posse sent to find him does not help his credibility. Nonetheless, Paladin (Richard Boone) agrees to protect Read More

Award / Margin for Fear

Have Gun, Will Travel: First, Catch a Tiger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The third-season opener for Have Gun, Will Travel finds Paladin (Richard Boone) among several sinister-looking patrons of a remote frontier inn. Accosted by the father of an outlaw who he helped condemn to death, Paladin is told that he himself will soon be killed by a paid assassin. But which of Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Charley Red Dog

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hired by a group of concerned businessmen, Paladin (Richard Boone) agrees to help rid the New Mexico town of Santa Maria of its outlaws. En route to his assignment, Paladin meets an eager young Native American named Charley Red Dog (Scott Marlowe), who claims to be a Federal Marshal. When it is Read More

Strange Intruder

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, Ann Harding, Jacques Bergerac, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: In one of his last appearances in a Hollywood production, Edmund Purdom plays Korean war veteran Paul Quentin. Keeping his promise to his dead war buddy Adrian (Donald Murphy), Quentin arrives at the doorstep of his Adrian's widow Alice (Ida Lupino). Alice and her children welcome Quentin with Read More

While the City Sleeps

Actors: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Forrest, George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price

Synopsis: When media mogul Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) dies, his business, which includes a major newspaper, a television station, and a wire news service, is turned over to his sole heir, his foppish, ne'er do well son (Vincent Price). The younger Kyne has no knowledge of how to run the company his father Read More

The Big Knife

Actors: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play reflects the quandary of the writer's later career; the golden boy of the Group Theater in the '30s, when his plays were the toast of Broadway, his talent seemed to wither after a number of years in the screenwriting trenches, and a Read More

Women's Prison

Actors: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter, Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis: With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama of the 1950s. Ida Lupino (who else?) stars as Amelia VanZant, the sadistic supervisor of the titular prison. Unable to establish any sort of relationship with a man, Amelia Read More

Private Hell 36

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Private Hell 36 was one of the last feature-length efforts by Filmmakers, a company created by producer Collier Young and his then-wife Ida Lupino. Young and Lupino also wrote the script for this grim crime melodrama, wherein two detectives Cal Bruner (Steve Cochran) and Jack Farnham (Howard Duff Lupino Read More

The Witness

Synopsis: A video of two television dramas: "One Way Out" and "Witness." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Hitch-Hiker

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Sam Hayes

Synopsis: Daniel Mainwaring took this story right out of the headlines of the day, penning this true story of a mass murderer who was eventually executed in San Quentin's gas chamber. Released during McCarthy's witch-hunt, Mainwaring was not given credit because Howard R. Hughes, who produced it under RKO Read More

Jennifer

Synopsis: In this drama, a young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion. There she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bigamist

Crew: Director

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: The title character is Edmond O'Brien, a lonely travelling salesman who ends up married to two women, Eve (Joan Fontaine)--and Phyllis (Ida Lupino). Eventually, of course, the truth comes out. Directed by costar Ida Lupino, The Bigamist manages to evoke a certain amount of sympathy for Edmond O'Brien Read More

Beware, My Lovely

Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting, James Williams

Synopsis: Adapted from the stage thriller The Man (itself based upon a half-hour radio drama), Beware My Lovely is a taut suspenser tailor-made for the talents of Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan. Lupino plays a pretty widow who impulsively hires handyman Ryan to look after her house. She soon learns Ryan is a Read More

Four Star Playhouse [TV Series]

Actors: Charles Boyer, David Niven, Ida Lupino, Dick Powell

On Dangerous Ground

Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross

Synopsis: Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in Nicholas Ray's moving film noir. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in Read More

Hard, Fast and Beautiful

Crew: Director

Actors: Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton Young, Robert Clarke, Kenneth Patterson

Synopsis: Ida Lupino, one of the few major Hollywood actresses to move from the sound stage to the director's chair in the 1940s and 1950s, helmed this story about a mother's obsessive drive to see her daughter succeed. Florence Farley (Sally Forrest) is a young woman with a tremendous gift as a tennis Read More

Outrage

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Lillian Hamilton

Synopsis: In terms of content, Outrage was well-ahead of its time. Mala Powers, who'd previously starred opposite Jose Ferrer in {#Cyrano de Bergerac}, plays Ann Walton, a naïve young girl who is attacked and raped while walking home from work. As if the horror and humiliation of the sexual assault wasn't Read More

Never Fear

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Hugh O'Brian, Eve Miller, Lawrence Dobkin

Synopsis: The Young Lovers is the more familiar title of a 1950 drama originally released as Never Fear. Sally Forrest plays a beautiful young dancer who is crippled with polio. Forrest's dance partner Keefe Brasselle wants to see her through her illness, but the embittered Forrest prefers to be alone. Only Read More

Lust for Gold

Actors: Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western melodrama when he aimed his sights at Lust for Gold. Most of the film is told in flashback, relating the exploits of Jacob Walz (Glenn Ford), the greedy, homicidal owner of the Read More

Woman in Hiding

Actors: Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Stephen McNally, John Litel, Taylor Holmes

Synopsis: So far as the rest of the world is concerned, Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband (Stephen McNally), Deborah had intended to commit suicide. Now she is the Read More

The Streets of Sin

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams, Wheaton Chambers

Synopsis: First love leads to unexpected responsibilities and difficult decisions in this well-crafted drama. Sally Kelton (Sally Forrest) is a free-spirited young woman who is chafing at the restrictions of living at home with her folks and wants to make something of herself. One evening after work, she Read More

Road House

Actors: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead

Synopsis: Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer, Ida Lupino, begins exhibiting an interest in his manager, Cornel Wilde. To get even with Wilde, Widmark frames him on a robbery charge, then has the unlucky fellow released in his Read More

Deep Valley

Actors: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris, Fay Bainter, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Just as she had in High Sierra (1941), Ida Lupino enjoys a brief moment of bliss with a man on the run in this highly emotional drama from Warner Bros. She plays Libby, a mountain girl nearly deprived of speech due to her rather hostile environment in general and repressive home life in Read More

Escape Me Never

Actors: Albert Basserman, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Reginald Denny, Eleanor Parker, Gig Young, Isobel Elsom

Synopsis: Based on a play and novel by Margaret Kennedy, Escape Me Never is a remake of the same-named 1935 British film. Largely set in Italy, the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok (Errol Flynn) and unwed mother Gemma Smith (Ida Lupino). Suspecting that her Read More

The Man I Love

Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's advances to cultivate a romance with pianist Bruce Bennett. Alda uses his connections with the Mob to break up the relationship--and also, hopefully, to break up Bennett into Read More

Pillow to Post

Actors: Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, Stuart Erwin, Johnny Mitchell

Synopsis: Yes, even Ida Lupino occasionally starred in screwball comedies during the 1930s and 1940s. Pillow to Post casts Lupino as free-spirited travelling saleswoman Jane Howard, who has trouble finding suitable lodgings during the wartime housing shortage. In order to secure a room at a motor camp Read More

Devotion

Actors: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Coleman

Synopsis: Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than as history. Not that it's great cinema, mind you, mainly because the filmmakers opted to replace historical fact with either tired dramatic clichés or wild improbabilities. Read More

Hollywood Canteen

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Robert Hutton, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Julie Bishop, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Betty Brodel, Sydney Greenstreet, Barbara Brown

Synopsis: The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film stars Bette Davis and John Garfield. The Canteen was established so that Our Boys on leave in Tinseltown could have a good time with good food and good dancing -- and, as a Read More

In Our Time

Actors: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Mary Boland, Victor Francen

Synopsis: More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino as Jennifer Whittredge, a young antique buyer marrying a Polish count, Stephan Orvid (Paul Henried), after a whirlwind romance in a Warsaw at the brink of World War II. The Read More

Forever and a Day

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Bette Davis, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky Stars. Believe it or not, this one has a wisp of a plot. A pair of enterprising producers, played by S.Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton, want to hire singer Dinah Shore Read More

Life Begins at 8:30

Actors: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Sara Allgood, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple, attempts to show her concern, he rebuffs her with his cruel, razor sharp witticism. His drinking and cynicism continue to increase, but, through it all, his daughter stands Read More

The Hard Way

Actors: Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Gladys George

Synopsis: In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway career. She does this to desperately try to keep her little sis from falling into the same small-town trap of marriage to a dull working-stiff and endless hours of taking care Read More

Moontide

Actors: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon Read More

Ladies in Retirement

Actors: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett

Synopsis: In this taut, creepy melodrama, a housemaid works as the companion of an aging, retired British actress. One day the maid (Ida Lupino) is visited by her two looney half sisters. The actress finds the slightly mad sisters intolerable and demands that they leave. Unfortunately, the maid realizes Read More

Out of the Fog

Actors: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert, George Tobias

Synopsis: Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by expert wordsmiths Robert Rossen, Jerry Wald, and Richard Macaulay. Humphrey Bogart lobbied strenuously to play the leading role of charming but ruthless waterfront loan Read More

The Sea Wolf

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: The fifth film version of Jack London's The Sea Wolf stars Edward G. Robinson as "premature fascist" Wolf Larsen. The captain of the scavenger ship Ghost, Larsen is a heartless tyrant who can tolerate no sign of weakness in anyone. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" is Larsen's Read More

High Sierra

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Alan Curtis

Synopsis: In a manner of speaking, Humphrey Bogart had George Raft to thank for his ascendancy to stardom: after all, if Raft hadn't turned down both High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, Bogart might have continued playing second-billed gangsters to the end of his days. Adapted from W. R. Burnett's novel by Burnett Read More

They Drive by Night

Actors: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Gale Page

Synopsis: They just don't make 'em like They Drive By Night anymore. This slam-bang Warner Bros. attraction stars George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as Joe and Paul Fabrini, owners of a small but scrappy trucking firm. The film deftly combines comedy with thrills for the first half-hour or so, as the Fabrini Read More

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, E.E. Clive, Terry Kilburn

Synopsis: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make their second screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Ostensibly based on the stage play by William Gillette, the film owes nothing to the play beyond the characters of Holmes, Watson, Billy the page boy and Read More

The Lady and the Mob

Actors: Fay Bainter, Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman, Henry Armetta, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard, who takes it upon herself to smash a dry-cleaning racket. When the crooks and the cops laugh at her efforts, the resourceful Hattie sets about to organize her own Read More

The Light That Failed

Actors: Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, Dudley Digges

Synopsis: Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his greatest painting before he goes blind. His affliction is due to a war wound and his final project is to paint a portrait of London's most notorious prostitute. Trouble begins Read More

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

Actors: Ida Lupino, Warren William, Robert Wilcox, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael Lanyard, a onetime criminal known as the Lone Wolf. He is determined to remain reformed for the sake of his daughter (Virginia Weidler), but a gang of foreign spies abducts Read More

Let's Get Married

Actors: Ida Lupino, Walter Connolly, Ralph Bellamy, Reginald Denny, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Contrary to earlier published reports, Columbia's Let's Get Married was not directed by Leo McCarey. Nor would McCarey have evinced much interest in this minor-league romantic comedy set in, of all places, a weather bureau. Ralph Bellamy plays the diligent chief weatherman who falls in love with Read More

Sea Devils

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Preston S. Foster, Ida Lupino, Donald Woods

Synopsis: In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is, she is already in love with another rambunctious and contentious Coast Guardian. To stop the romance, the officer transfers the young man to his command and hopes that he will Read More

Artists and Models

Actors: Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick, Ben Blue

Synopsis: Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend (Richard Arlen). Elsewhere in the office, Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) longs to Read More

Fight for Your Lady

Actors: John Boles, Jack Oakie, Ida Lupino, Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer becomes friends with a gringo singer who works in the same Budapest nightclub as a female ventriloquist. When the singer is dumped, the trainer offers to help him with his Read More

Anything Goes

Actors: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional songs by Hoagy Carmichael, among many many others. Set on a luxury liner, the story gets under way when Moonface Mullins (Charlie Ruggles), Public Enemy No. 13, slips on Read More

The Gay Desperado

Actors: Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber, James "Doc" Blakely

Synopsis: The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican bandit, Pablo Braganza, who gets nowhere until he and his amigos begin studying gangster techniques -- courtesy of Hollywood movies. Selecting kidnapping as his crime of choice Read More

Yours for the Asking

Actors: George Raft, Ida Lupino, Reginald Owen, James Gleason

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her familial mansion into a secret gambling casino. The hood is convinced her beauty will draw customers and with the ensuing profits, the two will be able to pay their debts. Read More

One Rainy Afternoon

Actors: Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, Erik Rhodes

Synopsis: A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin (Francis Lederer) heads to a darkened Parisian movie theater for a romantic rendezvous with his married sweetheart Yvonne (Countess Live de Margaret). But our hero sits in the Read More

Smart Girl

Actors: Ida Lupino, Kent Taylor, Gail Patrick, Joseph Cawthorn, Pinky Tomlin

Synopsis: Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted Read More

Paris in Spring

Actors: Mary Ellis, Tullio Carminatti, Ida Lupino, Lynne Overman, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Tulio Carminati, who was previously and felicitously teamed with Grace Moore in One Night of Love, co-stars with another splendid operatic singer, Mary Ellis, in Paris in Spring. Ellis plays Simone, who breaks up her long-standing engagement with Paul de Lille (Carminati) because she balks at the Read More

Peter Ibbetson

Actors: Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino, Douglas Dumbrille

Synopsis: "I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of George du Maurier's 1891 novel. Peter Ibbetson (Gary Cooper) is an architect who, while working on a restoration job for the British Duke of Towers (John Halliday), discovers that The Read More

Come On, Marines

Actors: Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley, Virginia Hammond

Synopsis: Philip Wylie, a writer best known for his "anti-Momism" work A Generation of Vipers, was responsible for the Paramount "leg show" Come on Marines. Lucky (Richard Arlen) and Spud (Roscoe Karns) are among the Marine troops dispatched from San Diego to the Philippines to rescue a group of Read More

Ready for Love

Actors: Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Marjorie Rambeau, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which Read More

Search for Beauty

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for beautiful girls and handsome men who might qualify as movie contractees -- though most the winners were drawn from the ranks of Hollywood residents. These contests, coupled with a Read More

I Lived with You

Actors: Ivor Novello, Ursula Jeans

Synopsis: In this drama, an impoverished exiled Russian prince is taken in by a good-hearted Cockney shopgirl. His presence creates chaos in her family's humble home. More trouble ensues when the girl is tossed out for getting romantically involved with her employer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Money for Speed

Actors: Ida Lupino, Cyril McLaglen, John Loder, Marie Ault

Synopsis: Big Bill Summers (Cyril McLaglen) is the undisputed king of the dirt-track motorcyclists. He also fancies himself quite the ladies' man, and has set his sights on pretty young Jane (Ida Lupino). When rival racer Mitch (John Loder) moves in on Jane, Big Bill seeks revenge on the track, resulting in Read More

High Finance

Synopsis: High Finance, Ida Lupino's second film (and one of director George King's many low-budget quickies), is "a drama of a man overwhelmed by his own success," as the studio's publicity department put it. The man is question is Sir Grant Rayburn (Gibb McLaughlin), a man whose blinders prevent him from Read More

Prince of Arcadia

Synopsis: In this romantic operetta, a prince heads for the Riviera after he is forcibly dethroned and exiled. There he falls in love with an actress whom he decides to marry, much to the consternation of his regal aunt. But while his auntie is not amused, the former regent's betrothed, a princess who never Read More

The Ghost Camera

Actors: Henry Kendall, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Very little plot, but some interesting scenes in this slight suspense offering. A man is falsely accused of murder. Luckily for him, a picture was taken of the murder. Unluckily for him, the camera had been thrown out of the window to destroy the evidence. Luckily, it landed in a passing car, so Read More

Her First Affair

Actors: Ida Lupino, Diana Napier, Muriel Aked, Helen Haye

Synopsis: Flapper Lupino wants to sew her wild oats before settling down to get married in this romantic drama and Napier assists her in her quest to have an affair with writer Curzon, Napier's husband! ~ All Movie Guide Read More