Ida Lupino
Poll: Who is your favorite actor/tress of all time?
It can be male or female.
I don't know. I like both Bette Davis and Ida Lupino, but if I had to pick I'd go with Lupino.
You?
Nicole Kidman ...
Road House (1948)
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The Big Knife (Amazon.com Exclusive) [VHS] $7.99 After 1952's The Bad and the Beautiful skewered Hollywood with a scathing attempt at self-analysis, The Big Knife (1955) finished the job of exposing the slimy underbelly of the studio system. This high-gloss noir, cynical to the bone and altogether hysterical in its potboiler theatrics, is a deliriously entertaining mid-'50s melodrama, adapted from the play by Clifford Odets (who brought a simila... |
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High Sierra [VHS] $8.84 This 1941 melodrama is memorable for both its strong central performances and their intimations of how the previous decade's crime dramas would evolve into film noir--no accident, given the solid direction of veteran Raoul Walsh and the hand of screenwriter John Huston, who teamed with the author of its novelistic source, W.R. Burnett (Little Caesar). In the central character of Roy "Mad Dog" Earl... |
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Road House [VHS] $9.49 Road House has acquired a cult as a prime film noir. Certainly the title location is archetypal, a lounge and bowling alley up toward the Canadian border, and Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark make the most of flavorful roles that would qualify them as exemplary noir denizens even if they hadn't established that elsewhere. He's the second-generation owner of the place who's never been obliged to grow... |
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Columbo - The Complete First Season $19.99 TV detective fans rejoice: Peter Falk's rumpled and infallible Lt. Columbo joins the DVD precinct with a five-disc set that features the detective's first nine appearances for NBC. Though Falk as Columbo (no first name) made his TV debut in 1967, the detective had actually first appeared on an episode of the 1960-61 Chevy Mystery Show (Bert Freed played the role) written by veteran TV scribes Rich... |
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The Trouble with Angels $3.25 Actress-writer-director Ida Lupino got one of her unfortunately rare opportunities behind a camera making this 1966 family comedy about two mischievous students (Hayley Mills, June Harding) making life difficult for the nuns at a girls' convent school. Rosalind Russell has a fine part as a mother superior vexed by their pranks and outwardly chilly until the girls catch her in a more private moment... |
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection $47.27 Five-disc boxed set includes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1939), "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror," "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon," "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death," "Sherlock Holmes in Washington," "The Pearl of Death," "The Scarlet Claw," "The Spider Woman," "The House of Fear," "Pursuit to Algiers," "The Woman in Green," "Terror by Night" (... |
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Ida Lupino alligator handbag VI1 Mr. Adams and Eve / Sherlock Holmes costume card Here is VI1, better known as Ida Lupino's alligator handbag. This insert, from the Breygent "Classic Vintage Movie Posters" series features a front with the swatch matted among an image of "Sherlock Holmes" and the back certification info for the bag as used in the series "Mr. Adams and Eve."... |
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Thank Your Lucky Stars $95.95 ... |
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Suspense Original Radio Broadcast LP $50.00 Original radio shows from yesteryear are presented here. " House in Cypress Canyon " and " Fugue in C Minor " . Great classic mysteries and suspense !... |
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Suspense - 2 Old Time Radio Shows OTR on Vinyl LP Vincent Price, Ida Lupino, Robert Taylor $36.95 LP contains 2 full half hour radio stories of ""SUSPENSE"" - House in Cypress Canyon and Fugue in C Minor... |
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Wrong Rut/Birthright (DVD) $9.14 Two vintage, bizarre 1950s cult movies are collected here. THE WRONG RUT, Ida Lupino`s uncredited directorial debut, follows a n |
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The Life and Death of Thelma Todd (Paperback) $37.72 "Exhaustive research included author interviews of Todd`s cousins Bill and Edna Todd, and such friends and coworkers as Ida Lupino, Lina Basquette, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Granger, William Bakewell and Greg Blackton. Also examined is Hollywood`s first ma... |