I never knew Lupino was English...
Remember her best from High Sierra...
Posted on 02/11/2018 2:53:29 PM PST by Rummyfan
Ida Lupino was born one hundred years ago this month - February 4th 1918, in Herne Hill, south London - and, insofar as she's remembered in today's Hollywood, it's in a kind of special-pleading way: She was "the first female director". Wow! Awesome! So she, like, shattered the glass ceiling? Well, yes, she did: The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is regarded as the first "mainstream" female-helmed movie; when television took off, she was the only woman asked to direct episodes of "The Twilight Zone". On set her director's chair bore the designation "MOTHER OF US ALL", and the transcript of her off-camera directorial instructions from a Sixties TV western captures the maternal encouragement:
Any rocks up there to give you a problem, darlin'? Now, Walter baby, while we're here... You read my mind, love... That's it, sweetheart... Are we lathering the horses in this sequence, sweetie..? That's divine, love. Okay, follow Mother, here we go, kiddies!
Of course, post-Weinstein, any male director would be ill-advised to try any of that darling/baby/love/sweetheart/sweetie stuff. But it's somehow right for a woman in a man's world - which was a role she played on-screen long before pulling it off so successfully off-screen. Still, my favorites of her own films are those like The Bigamist, in which she also acted.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I never knew Lupino was English...
Remember her best from High Sierra...
I thought she was a pretty good actress and director. If anything, she probably should have gotten a chance to direct bigger movies. She was probably held back being a woman.
Moxie is the official softdrink of the State of Maine.
EXCELLENT!! Thank you for posting this
Moxie tastes like Root Beer with mud in it.
Yes she was. I had a serious case to teen-age lust for Ida as a young movie-goer. She had a mysterious and “sultry” quality to use Steyn’s descriptive.
I always thought that she was smarter than the women she portrayed on the screen.
Dunno where they get the mud cuz all Maine has is rocks :)
Der might be some aroostook co potates in moxie too... with mud! LOL
When my Mother was a Teenager, she wanted to go to school to become a Court Reporter. She was discouraged from doing just that.
She was told the Courtroom was no place for a Woman because of the unseemly language being used.
Times have changed.
My Mom did payroll for a construction company, Her tender ears were bruised early, but She is a saint, hardly says “dang it” ever.
She grew up in a shack with no running water.
She’s been COMFORTABLY retired for 20 years.
What’s this glass ceiling thing?
I remember the ad, “You’ve gotta have plenty of Moxie”.
I detested it.
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I think Ted Williams drank the stuff and did ads LOL
To be fair it aint soda, it’s a TONIC Blehhh
I like birch beer, sarsaperilla, but moxie is made with burdock root and MUD.
What’s a burdock?
Ida is OK
I must like mud.
Really I’d say Moxie kind of taste like bitter root beer.
Definitely not for everyone,
Root beer with Angostura bitters, maybe.
I know a guy that has it shipped to RENO by the case LOL
Heres mud in yer eye :)
And mud LOL
I was thinking a lot about Ida Lupino after the 2016 election. Wondering if sooner or later Hillary Clinton would blame the doors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_7q1Y08kOo
Speaking of the Doors, the “killer on the road” from “Riders on the Storm” was the real life character on whom the Hitch-hiker was based.
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