This is a biography of one of Hollywood's most prolific female directors. Ida Lupino was also an actress, best known for her "hard-boiled" screen persona.[...]
Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on controversial subjects. But Ida Lupino bucked the system, writing and directing a string of movies that exposed the dark underside of American so[...]
Ida Lupino did not want to be an actress; composing and writing were her major interests.
Ida branched out into film directing and producing in 1949, becoming one of two women to enter the male dominated field. She was the only woman ever to direct an episode of The Twilight Zone. This epis[...]