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 ...

Ida Lupino in 1936 As an actress, Lupino became a go-to for tough-girl roles, and famously costarred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film noir High Sierra. She and Bogart shared a surprising ...

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Smart money says Ida Lupino never fell for a Hollywood ending. Acting was her family’s trade, and she was pushed into movies early, cast as an adolescent minx in a few British productions before ...

“Of course, Ida isn’t normal. No one ever accused her of that. One of her peculiarities is that she does everything well.” In 1941, Lupino took on another bad-girl role in the seafaring film ...

Ida Lupino’s bold, subversive films tackled social ... touches to the story of Sally (Sally Forrest), a small-town girl who has a brief romance with a nightclub pianist.

Ida Lupino, the veteran Hollywood ... “She is the only girl in the world as mad as I am,” George Bernard Shaw said about Lupino when she was still a teen. “She is a mad genius.

Mary Ann Anderson was a new sub agent for The Lund Agency in California when she was ordered to deliver flowers to movie star Ida Lupino's home on her birthday. The woman was stunned by what she saw.