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Classic Hollywood enthusiast // #IdaLupinoDirecting // 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 See more of my writings on Ida Lupino and other classic Hollywood topics: pmbryant.com/x/letyourselfgo

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 12h
Ida Lupino, 1937 “Ida Lupino, who is currently cast opposite Richard Arlen with Jack Benny and Gail Patrick in Paramount's filmusical, ‘Artists And Models,’ plays… a model who impersonates a society debutant to gain a job with the rich young man she loves”
Studio glamour portrait of Lupino with short, dark hair
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 12h
Ida Lupino, 1937 “Ida Lupino, who is currently cast opposite Richard Arlen with Jack Benny and Gail Patrick in Paramount's filmusical, ‘Artists And Models,’ plays… a model who impersonates a society debutant to gain a job with the rich young man she loves”
Studio glamour portrait of Lupino with short, dark hair
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 29/09/2026
Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer for “Yolanda and the Thief” (1946)
Astaire sits next to Bremer on a studio set with arms partially outstretched. Bremer holds prop bags with large $ signs and a large stack of bills on her lap. More prop bags and cash and coins are scattered on floor around them.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 29/09/2026
Ida Lupino with Director Nicholas Ray and Ward Bond, behind the scenes of “On Dangerous Ground” (1951).
Ray at center seated in director’s chair. Lupino and Bond lean on the arms of the chair on either side of him looking at each other with big smiles
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 29/09/2026
Fascinating discussion on Nicholas Ray 👇
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 29/09/2026
Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer for “Yolanda and the Thief” (1946)
Astaire sits next to Bremer on a studio set with arms partially outstretched. Bremer holds prop bags with large $ signs and a large stack of bills on her lap. More prop bags and cash and coins are scattered on floor around them.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 29/09/2026
Ida Lupino with Director Nicholas Ray and Ward Bond, behind the scenes of “On Dangerous Ground” (1951).
Ray at center seated in director’s chair. Lupino and Bond lean on the arms of the chair on either side of him looking at each other with big smiles
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Marci @marcikay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS WEDNESDAY at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT You never know who’s walking the rain-slicked streets of #FilmNoir. Join #TheNoirCollective watch party for THE GUILTY (1947), a Poverty Row gem featuring Bonita Granville and Don Castle. Link to watch: archive.org/details/the-...
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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Joan Blondell in a publicity photo for GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 ('33).
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Kim Britt Knits 🧶 @kphbritt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I remember this as a regular show, so I doubt this that was the pilot for Hollywood Squares. Maybe it morphed into that later or maybe it’s b/c Paul Lynde is on this episode. Anyway, Ida Lupino & Howard Duff have some marital issues and Fabian is fricking adorable! youtu.be/ZsVuf1ZVMMc?...
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Carl Reiner hosts The Celebrity Game (the pilot for Hollywood Squares, 1964)
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National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) @protectparks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like the plan to give a private developer special access to Yosemite, the proposal for a baseball stadium in Grand Teton should have been immediately rejected. www.npca.org/articles/115...
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No Baseball Stadium in Grand Teton, Now or Ever.
It’s long past time for this administration to start treating our national parks with the respect they deserve
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Somebody asked me if I know of any online silent film clubs. Unfortunately I don't, so I thought I'd ask Old Hollywood Bluesky if anyone knows of any. Any suggestions welcome.
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The Tinseltown Twins @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ann Sothern and Melvyn Douglas in Three Hearts for Julia (1943) 💝
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 27/09/2026
Ida Lupino in her first and (next to) last feature films: “Her First Affaire” (1933) and “Food of the Gods” (1976)
Ida Lupino in “Her First Affaire”Ida Lupino in “Food of the Gods”
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The Brattle Theatre @brattletheatre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Free Screening and Discussion! Join us Monday at 6:00 for Elements of Cinema, featuring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche in MIDNIGHT. Learn more & watch the trailer at brattlefilm.org/movies/elements-of-cinema-midnight/
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 27/09/2026
Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, likely while working on “Blue Skies” (1946) — Modern Screen, Feb. 1947
Original caption: “Helping Bing pick a winner in the Racing Form is Fred Astaire, no amateur with horses either. Fred's deserting his stables to establish the Fred Astaire Dance Studios. First one's scheduled to open January in New York.”

Astaire and Crosby seated next to each other. Crosby holds a newspaper open while Astaire appears to inspect it and gesture at something in it.
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John Turturro's Sweater @craigsimpson70.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've been asked the best place to purchase my new book, TELEVISION IS WHERE YOU FIND IT; and without hesitation I would say my publisher, because you can follow the link below, download the leaflet, and get 30% off. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/television-i...
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Television Is Where You Find It
Television is Where You Find It is an illuminating critical study of ten feature filmmakers (Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, Orson Welles and George Cukor, Ida Lupino and Melvin Van Peebles, Budd Bo...
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 26/09/2026
Claudette Colbert, artist "Claudette Colbert, known to her friends as Madame Rembrandt, is another member of Hollywood colony who finds painting a relaxing hobby. She's already put Mrs. Jimmy Stewart and Mary Livingstone on canvas." — Los Angeles Times, July 8, 1951
Newspaper photo of Colbert standing at an easel on which is an incomplete portrait of a woman
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DVDBeaver @dvdbeaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Charles Vidor's "Ladies in Retirement" Blu-ray - Ida Lupino, Elsa Lanchester @imprint_films US: link.amazon/B0eHodGKr CAN: amzn.to/4AyD5Be UK: www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/... BONUS CAPTURES: www.patreon.com/dvdbeaver/po... OUR COMPARISON: www.dvdbeaver.com/subsite/film...
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 26/09/2026
Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” (1947). I finally watched this and unexpectedly loved it. The scenes with the two leads were electric and funny and thoroughly enjoyable. Lost some steam towards the end when Tierney’s character was on her own.
Harrison, in black, looms behind Tierney, in white, in a scene from “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.”
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Tipping My Fedora @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This year's Film Noir Fest (30 Oct to 1 Nov 2026) continues its tribute to Ida Lupino, focusing on her career as a writer-director-producer. YouTube: shorturl.at/Cj5rC Apple: buff.ly/wDl4xnB Podbean: buff.ly/wk2LnPK Spotify: buff.ly/34bRrLu Full schedule: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
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Classic Actors Of Hollywood @kezzie112.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Claudette Colbert
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 25/09/2026
Josephine Hutchinson, Glenda Farrell, Mervyn LeRoy, Joan Blondell and Anita Louise at Warner Brothers, 1935
The five stand outdoors facing camera and smiling.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 25/09/2026
“Young Man of Manhattan” (1930) is an early Claudette Colbert film that also happens to be Ginger Rogers’ first film. Colbert starred with then-husband Norman Foster. The only copies available I’ve seen are pretty rough.
Standing Colbert embraces seated Foster in a scene from “Young Man of Manhattan” (1930). Claudette Colbert playing a piano in a scene from “Young Man of Manhattan” (1930)
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 25/09/2026
Ida Lupino, 1944. Portrait by Bert Six for Warner Bros.
Studio glamour portrait of Lupino in sleeveless gown, large flower at her neck.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 25/09/2026
Rita Hayworth in Modern Screen, June 1947
Color magazine portrait of Hayworth in dark green outfit, holding a medium sized dog.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Joan Bennett by William Walling, Jr., 1936.
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ginger Rogers with cat, and with husband, William Marshall. Photo by Nina Leen for LIFE magazine, 1961. In summer stock performing Bell Book And Candle. LIFE reported, as soon as the photos were done, "the cat jumped out of Ginger's arm and sank sharp teeth right into her husband's neck."
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 23/09/2026
“Director Vincent Sherman (right) rehearses his stars, Ida Lupino and William Prince, in a bit of dialog between scenes of the forthcoming Warner Bros. production, ‘Pillow to Post.’” Showmen’s Trade Review, March 24, 1945
Prince and Lupino attentively listen to Sherman. All are seated facing each other.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 21/09/2026
A bit after “The Hard Way” tomorrow morning, TCM is airing another Vincent Sherman-directed film starring Ida Lupino: the zany wartime farce, PILLOW TO POST (1945). Bonus appearing by Louis Armstrong and Dorothy Dandridge.
Poster for “Pillow to Post” (1945) starring Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet and William Prince. With Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra. Directed by Vincent Sherman. Ida Lupino in a scene from “Pillow to Post” (1945). She is seated on a suitcase,another suitcase in her lap. She is holding a bare foot in her hands with corresponding shoe on the ground below it. She looks dejected. A crowd is visible behind her.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 21/09/2026
TCM appears to be having a Vincent Sherman day tomorrow. For some reason they are burying the best of the bunch at 5am CDT: THE HARD WAY (1943) Featuring one of the most intense, hard-boiled roles of Ida Lupino’s career, plus great supporting turns from Jack Carson and Gladys George.
Poster for “The Hard Way” (1943) starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan and Joan Leslie with Jack Carson and Gladys George. Directed by Vincent Sherman. Gladys George and Ida Lupino in a pivotal scene from “The Hard Way” (1943)
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 21/09/2026
Ann Sothern in Modern Screen, April 1936
Sothern in dark dress, sitting in an oversized wicker chair. Her name written in script across the bottom

Caption: Brief holidays are all that a capable and popular actress like Ann con hope for. With two pictures just completed, the Sothem hurried into still a third, "Don't Gamble with Love," in which Bruce Cabot is her teammate. The dashing, young Roger Pryor is still her constant interest.
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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Friends here loathed THE GAY DESPERADO when it aired Tuesday on TCM. We finally watched – and loved it. We started laughing at the start and never stopped. We loved the mashup and sendup of genres. The look – incl. shots of huge cacti spoofing Eisenstein’s Mexican footage – had us in stitches. (1/2)
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ida Lupino for Paramount Pictures (1934)
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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Watching The Gay Desperado Why wasn't this part of the Ritrovato Rouben Mamoulian season. A Mexican operatic musical gangster parody where the Mexican gang boss loves gangster films and wants to be more like them, plus opera loving. Daft as a brush, light as a feather and with a dazzling Ida Lupino
Poster for The Gay Desperado
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 20/09/2026
Ida Lupino standing with Arizona governor Dan Garvey and Gig Young while on location for “Lust for Gold” (1949), November 1948. Is it lost to history why Lupino is posing in what appears to be a Boston Red Sox jacket?
Garvey, Young and Lupino standing side by side in a rocky desert landscape. The men are wearing long overcoats and wide-brimmed hats, hands in packets. Lupino is wearing a baseball-style overcoat with a large stylized ‘B’ logo. Her coat is open and her hands on hips.
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ida Lupino publicity for One Rainy Afternoon (1936).
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 20/09/2026
Jack Haley and Alice Faye in “Wake Up and Live” (20th Century-Fox, 1937)
Studio closeup photo of Haley and Faye, foreheads together, smiling.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 19/09/2026
Ida Lupino pictured in 1939 at one of her favorite pastimes—writing music. “To the devil with this profession. I want to be a musician. Composing is the thing that gives me the greatest thrill.”
Ida Lupino, leaning into a standup piano with pen in hand, annotating a sheet of music.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 19/09/2026
It's time to play "What's the Score?" Listen to the 5 music clips and guess the movies AND the composers. Then, see if you can spot the common theme or connection between the 5 films. Send your answers to my DM and I'll give you your score! See replies for rules and hints:👇 #filmsky #moviesky #games
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"What's the Score?" The Movie Music Guessing Game! - Sep 19th, 2026
How to play: Listen to the 5 music clips in the video. Your job is to guess the title of each movie the music is from, and the name of the composer for each one. You get one point for each correct mo...
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 19/09/2026
Una Merkel, great character actress of the 1930s.
Merkel portrait, standing and smiling, wearing stark dress with long sleeves, hands on hips.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 18/09/2026
Ida Lupino and Joan Leslie in “The Hard Way” (1943)
Lupino in a dark dress with flower patches on her left shoulder. Leslie in a light-colored evening gown. They are standing side-by-side, with Leslie grasping Lupino’s left arm.
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 18/09/2026
Director Gregory La Cava and Claudette Colbert on the set of “Private Worlds.” Their chairs have their respective nicknames for each other: “Dangerous Ward Dr. Lucius La Cava” and “The Fretting Frog.” — Photoplay, November 1935
La Cava and Colbert sit side-by-side turned to face each other. Another crew member sits by a large motion picture camera at far left.
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ida Lupino on the set of Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ginger Rogers publicity for Vivacious Lady (1938).
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ginger Rogers by John Miehle for Romance in Manhattan (1935)
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The Film Crowd @thefilmcrowd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JOIN US! at #TheFilmCrowd tonight at 8pm BST for two short-but-sweet stories directed by the great Ida Lupino for Boris Karloff's Thriller - THE LETHAL LADIES! Link in post below👇
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's link to book @rutgersupress.bsky.social which I'm now seeing is out in a second edition! 🎉 Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition by Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman with foreword by Imogen Sara Smith www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ida-lupino-d...
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Ida Lupino, Director, 2nd edition
With a new foreword by film historian Imogen Sara Smith, this updated edition focuses on Ida Lupino’s film and television career as director in postwar America and further contextualizes Lupino’s achi...
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 15/09/2026
Ida Lupino in a promo for her early comedy “The Gay Desperado” (1936), starting opera singer Nino Martini and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. On TCM late this afternoon. Around this time, Lupino was described in the press as “the spectacular cutie” and “that little bouquet of dynamite.” #TCMParty
Magazine photo of Nino Martini and Ida Lupino in costume for “The Gay Desperado” (1936). From Movie Mirror, October 1936.
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