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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 26/06/2026

Ida Lupino — Modern Screen, Apr. 1942 “In ‘Ladies in Retirement’ she managed a cozy little job of strangulation that'd make Lady Macbeth look silly. Now, everyone’s standing around on one foot, waiting to see what she’s up to in 20th Century-Fox’s ‘Moontide.’”

Magazine closeup portrait of Lupino with hand on cheek. Photo by Frank Powolny.

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It all dates back to "The Light That Failed." Her knife-edged portrayal of the spirited little guttersnipe caught on ... lifted her out of syrupy roles, and it's been bigger and better neurotics for Miss Lupino ever since! In "Ladies in Retirement" she managed a cozy little job of strangulation that'd make Lady Macbeth look silly. Now, everyone's standing around on one foot, waiting to see what she's up to in 20th Century-Fox's "Moontide." You'd never guess she was imported from England originally to do a dewy-eyed "Alice in Wonderland." But you might very well guess that 300 years of acting is her heritage. She says, "I used to be frivolous, overpainted.. simply awful!" But one day she met that nice Louis Hayward and he said to her, "Go wash your face." She did, and now she's Mrs. Hayward. Walks around the house sans shoes, collects guns and blanches when reminded of that old epithet, "Hollywood's Dizziest Dame."

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Marsha Gordon @marshagordon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Excellent photo of her!

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