Queen of the 'B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera Kuhn, Annette

Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned writer, producer, and director in her own independent production company. The films she made, beginning with Not Wanted in 1949, were low-budget pictures taking an uncompromising approach to controversial subject matter -- unmarried motherhood, disability, rape, bigamy. Lupino is exceptional as the only woman to have directed a visible body of films in the male-dominated Hollywood of the 1950s. The continuation of that directorial career in television throughout the 1960s strengthens the claim that Lupino is the most prolific and creatively powerful woman director ever to have worked in the moving image industry.

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Queen of the 'B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera Series: Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture Hardback, 208 pages, $126.95 Copyright ©1995, Greenwood Press ISBN: 0-313-29732-0 DOI: 10.1336/0313297320

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