Want to know the best Ida Lupino movies? How about the worst Ida Lupino movies? Curious about Ida Lupino box office grosses or which Ida Lupino movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ida Lupino movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Ida Lupino (1918-1995) was an American actress and director. Her IMDb page shows over 140 acting and directing credits from 1932-1978. This page will rank 41 Ida Lupino movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, and bit parts were not included in the rankings. This page comes from a request from Lupino (no relation).
Ida Lupino Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Ida Lupino movies by movie titles and trailers to those movies
- Sort Ida Lupino movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Ida Lupino movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ida Lupino movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Ida Lupino movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Ida Lupino movie received.
- Sort by how many Oscar® wins each Ida Lupino movie received.
- Sort Ida Lupino movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Ida Lupino Table
- Fourteen Ida Lupino movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 34.15% of her movies listed. Hollywood Canteen (1944) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Ida Lupino movie grosses $77.70 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 31 Ida Lupino movies are rated as good movies…or 46.15% of her movies. High Sierra (1941) is her highest rated movie while The Devil’s Rain (1975) was her lowest rated movie.
- Five Ida Lupino movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 12.19% of her movies.
- Zero Ida Lupino movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of her movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 24 Ida Lupino movies scored higher than that average….or 58.53% of her movies. Hollywood Canteen (1944) got the the highest UMR Score while The Devil’s Rain (1975) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Ida Lupino – Courtesy of UMR Hall of Famer Lupino
1. Ida Lupino was born on February 4th, 1918 in Herne Hill, London, into a showbusiness family. She died August 3d, 1995 (aged 77) in Los Angeles, California. Lupino is an Italian surname. Her ancestors came from Bologna, Italy.
2. Ida Lupino wanted to be a writer, but in order to please her father, Lupino enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She started to appear in movies in 1931, at the tender age of 13.
3. By 1934, she had signed a deal with Columbia Pictures, but fell ill with Polio, making it impossible for her to work as an actress. Rather than succumbing to her illness, she sought out other creative means. While on bedrest, she composed “Aladdin’s Suite” in 1935. This piece of music was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1937.
4. After recovering, she began to appear in movies again, and in 1939 had her “breathrough” opposite Ronald Colman in The Light That Failed. This was followed by They Drive By Night, a sort of remake of the Paul Muni/Bette Davis film Bordertown. Lupino, billed behind George Raft and Ann Sheridan, gathered rave reviews and got first billing for the first time in her next movie, which to this day remains one of her best known: High Sierra.
5. During her time as a contract player at WB, she often went on suspension for rejecting scripts, that often were Bette Davis’ rejects in the first place. She said that during these suspensions she hung arround at various filmsets, learning the craft of a director by watching and studying the best of them.
6. Ida Lupino was the second woman to be admitted to the Director’s Guild. Dorothy Arzner was the first.
7. Ida Lupino was married three times: to actor Louis Hayward, producer Collier Young and actor Howard Duff, her longest marriage. She had a daughter with the womanizing Duff, Bridget, in 1952. At birth, Bridget only weighed 4 pounds and almost died.
8. On top of acting in and directing movies in the 50’s, Lupino became very activ on television, both as an actress (Mr. Adams and Eve, a sitcom costarring Howard Duff, Four Star Playhouse) and director (Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff’s Thriller). She directed her last theatrical movie in 1966, 13 years after her next to last directorial effort for the big screen.
9. In later years, Ida Lupino sometimes quite visibly sported wigs in her acting assignments. This was due to the fact that she was nearly bald.
10. About her career in Hollywood, Miss Lupino joked: As an actress, I was the poor man’s Bette Davis. Now, as a director, I’ve become the poor man’s Don Siegel.
11. Today, Miss Lupino’s career as a director in both movies and on television has earned her a prominent place as an “auteur du cinemà” and as a forerunner in a male dominated business, paving the way for other female directors.
12. A short overview about Ida Lupino’s work as a director can be seen here (article published by the British Film Institute):
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/ida-lupino-director
13. Musician Paul Bley recorded a song in honor of Miss Lupino entitled “Ida Lupino”, composed by his then-wife Carla Bley, for his 1965 album “Closer”. The instrumental Jazz piece can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsbDIX8VSkk
14. Check out Ida Lupino’s career compared to current and classic actors and actresses. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Steve’s Ida Lupino You Tube Video
Hey bob roy….thanks for all the information on Ida’s directing career….a pretty impressive resume….regardless if she is a man or a woman. Good feedback….as always.
Hey Lupino….interesting point the “hidden” messages in The Hitch-Hiker…..this was my review of that movie.
“I have been reading about the ground breaking ways of Ida Lupino. Lupino was one of the first female directors. Some say this is the only film-noir movie directed by a woman. In this one Lupino does a lot with a little…as the movie was filmed on a low budget. There are three excellent performances in this one. Frank Lovejoy and Edmond O’Brien play the unlucky friends who pick up crazed hitch-hiker William “Perry Mason” Talman. I liked the way Talman’s thought process worked in the movie….as it seemed logical…..and scary as he always seemed willing to kill Lovejoy and O’Brien. The suspense builds up nicely….the grand finale is somewhat weak….but overall this was a good movie.” – From My Letterboxd Account.
A very eloquent review…at first I thought Bob’s friend Joel had been using an alias 🙂
HEY LUPINO!
I’m really quite a modest person and like to stay that way but if you keep linking my name with Joel’s I’m liable to be promoted to one of this site’s great heroes and get endless attention!
As we say in german: Ehre wem Ehre gebührt!
(honor to whom honor is due) 😉
Glad you liked my mini-review of The Hitch-Hiker.
Hey Steve….I got a kick out of this part of your comment…..”Hi Bob, I can barely remember making this video.”…..that happens to me a lot when seeing a page on UMR….I am like….did I write this?
As Lupino points out in another comment….all of these interesting facts come from him…..like our Gregory Peck Interesting Facts come from Flora…..Lupino hooked me up on Ida….now I just need a Marlon Brando Facts from Bob.
Good feedback as always.
HI BRUCE
The beauty of this site is that we are privy to the knowledge and experience of a wide range of people such as Lupino, Bob Cox, Dan, Phil etc with the likes of Flora, Bern, Laurent and W o C giving it a feminine touch.
Those are the “good guys” giving us the best of things but we even have a “bad guy” in Joel showing us the worst of things In other words we have “good cop/bad cop” site!
Seriously though whilst I can’t resist playfully trying to wind up you and Steve at times and HE mildly rebukes me on occasions because I for example annoy him about Hitchcock’s alleged private personality traits,and concentrate on Ida Lupino’s billing instead of [initially] her directorial career, what impresses me most among a number of other things is that there is rarely any acrimony in the exchanges between viewers even when they strongly disagree over a topic. Debates for the most part are conducted in a tolerant and positive manner and you deserve credit for setting the scene in the way you have done..
That can contrast sharply with other sites that I’ve seen about for example sporting heroes and politics where regulars are frankly excessively abusive to each other and usually in language that can only be described as foul.
So let’s just try to keep going in the way we have been doing. As the cliche goes “If it’s working don’t fix it.
“Lupino hooked me up on Ida”…I like that 😉
What can I do to hook you up on your forgotten local girl and Sylvia?