TIFF Cinematheque Presents: INDEPENDENT WOMEN: Films of Ida Lupino

TIFF Cinematheque presents the first retrospective of films directed by or/an starring Ida Lupino.   Lupino was born in London and left eventually for Hollywood.  She was sometimes known as the British Jean Harlow.  But she called herself the poor Bette Davis for accepting roles that Davis would have otherwise rejected and later when she became a director calling herself the poor Donald Siegel.

She passed on at the age of 77 on the 3rd August 1995,   She was the only woman working within the 1950s Hollywood studio system.  With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several of her own social-message films, and was the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953.  Sh was married to producer Collier Young and together formed their own filmmaking company.  When she was suspended from Warner Bros., she became bored and learnt…