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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 234410" data-attributes="member: 7">I cannot believe I've been an avid classic Hollywood fan for more than a decade, and I've allowed Ida Lupino to slide right under my nose. Of course, I always knew of her, but I had never seen her in anything other than the "I Will Be Remembered" episode of Charlie's Angels (1977), where she played a fading film star Gloria Gibson whose agents and former co-workers are trying to steal a priceless painting in her mansion by driving her crazy.The Lupino family was an acting dynasty whose career in entertainment traces back to the 1600s. She started her career in England, then she was brought over to America as a contract star for Paramount Pictures. She was ushered into a series of B-pictures, and her look had her branded an English version of Jean Harlow. She fought for a role in The Light That Failed (1939), receiving excellent reviews. Her work brought her to the attention of Warner Brothers, where she signed in 1940. Her first pictures there, They Drive By Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941), earned her strong reviews. Lupino spent most of her time at Warner Brothers being what she jokingly called the "poor man's Bette Davis", often taking roles Davis had rejected. I've been digging into Ida Lupino's life, and I want to more about her. I'm finding her terribly intriguing. She's got to have some fans here among my fellow Telly Talk friends. Every time she I hear the name "Ida Lupino" I think about the "A Toe in the Water" from the sixth season of Designing Women. The gentleman Julia has been dating, who Allison assumes is gay, makes a reference to an outfit Julia tried on as being "too Ida Lupino" for Julia to effectively pull off. [ATTACH=full]21934[/ATTACH]Below is what Ida Lupino looked like when she came to Hollywood as a little-known British actress. Paramount signed her as their alternative to Jean Harlow, and cast her in a host of low-budget quickies. Even though she was attractive, she seemed out of her realm as a blonde siren, and she did not make too much of a splash during this period. Apparently columnist Hedda Hopper, who met Lupino at a party, told her that if she wanted to make it in Hollywood she needed to shed her baby fat, loose the penciled on eyebrows, and allow her hair to go natural. Lupino did all those things, and just as Hopper predicted, things began turning around for her. She got a contract with Warner Brothers, where she would do some of her best work on camera. [ATTACH=full]21935[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]21936[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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