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Post by Cinemaniac on Jan 11, 2024 0:31:33 GMT
With all this talk about noir films in another discussion of mine, it got me thinking about the stylish and seductive look of various women in noirs. I remember attending a local auction at some antiques store in my former neighborhood. One of the items I had seen, but had unfortunately didn't get to bid on, was a binder of various head shots of classic Hollywood stars. One picture that stood out to me was this gorgeous picture of Ida Lupino. As I recall, she had this sultry side glance look in her eyes, was wearing a white top, she had her hand positioned beneath her chin, and was seen wearing a thick black strap wristwatch. It looked as though it was from the early-mid 1950s, around the same time as "THE BIGAMIST". If anyone is familiar with this picture, I'm curious as to what movie it may be from (unless it's just a studio publicity still). I'm almost sure Eddie Muller had this picture seen during some commentary on "NOIR ALLEY" at one time or another, because I know I've seen this picture elsewhere.
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Post by kims on Jan 11, 2024 1:08:52 GMT
Have you tried the GETTY IMAGES site? I did a quick look-there are 13 pages of photos of her.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 11, 2024 17:55:35 GMT
With all this talk about noir films in another discussion of mine, it got me thinking about the stylish and seductive look of various women in noirs. I remember attending a local auction at some antiques store in my former neighborhood. One of the items I had seen, but had unfortunately didn't get to bid on, was a binder of various head shots of classic Hollywood stars. One picture that stood out to me was this gorgeous picture of Ida Lupino. As I recall, she had this sultry side glance look in her eyes, was wearing a white top, she had her hand positioned beneath her chin, and was seen wearing a thick black strap wristwatch. It looked as though it was from the early-mid 1950s, around the same time as "THE BIGAMIST". If anyone is familiar with this picture, I'm curious as to what movie it may be from (unless it's just a studio publicity still). I'm almost sure Eddie Muller had this picture seen during some commentary on "NOIR ALLEY" at one time or another, because I know I've seen this picture elsewhere. I went to Google and Ida Lupino images and found the photo you mentioned in a few seconds (since it was one of the first one featured). I would post it if it was easier to do so at this forum. |
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 11, 2024 18:03:15 GMT
JamesJazzGuitar is spot on, here it is, if it helps (I just followed JJG's directions).
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 11, 2024 19:11:50 GMT
Yea, Ida is indeed lovey in that early 50s photo. While not a so called classic beauty, I have always found the type of beauty that Ida has a lot more appealing than the blonde bombshell look.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jan 11, 2024 20:19:28 GMT
Yea, Ida is indeed lovey in that early 50s photo. While not a so called classic beauty, I have always found the type of beauty that Ida has a lot more appealing than the blonde bombshell look. |
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Post by Cinemaniac on Jan 11, 2024 23:56:28 GMT
Thank you James and FadingFast! That IS indeed the picture of Ida I've been looking for. She does have a rather profound look to her face. While getting to observe this picture up close in full detail, I see Ida's actually wearing a bracelet of rounds discs, making it understandable why I thought she was wearing a thick black strap wristwatch (now that I think of it, I can clearly see Ida wearing that kind watch). I have tried to get on GettyImages to search for this picture in the past, but my browser has been enabling me from performing such a task.
Incidentally, is this picture of Ida a publicity still from any such particular movie of hers?
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 12, 2024 0:09:39 GMT
Thank you James and FadingFast! That IS indeed the picture of Ida I've been looking for. She does have a rather profound look to her face. While getting to observe this picture up close in full detail, I see Ida's actually wearing a bracelet of rounds discs, making it understandable why I thought she was wearing a thick black strap wristwatch (now that I think of it, I can clearly see Ida wearing that kind watch). Is that picture from any particular film, by any chance? I have tried to get on GettyImages to search for this picture in the past, but my browser has been enabling me from performing such a task. |
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Post by nickandnora34 on Jan 16, 2024 3:39:50 GMT
It feels like this was taken around the same time as her movie "The Big Knife" (1955)... she has the same haircut/style in this still from the movie I just found.  so definitely seems like it was taken in the 50s as opposed to the 40s. I know others have already mentioned this, but I felt like chiming in. |
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Post by Cinemaniac on Mar 2, 2024 16:34:43 GMT
Here's what I consider to be a lovely picture of Ida Lupino -  All at once, she looks charming, seductive, intelligent, and gorgeous. That's what I think of her in the movie "THE MAN I LOVE", which I had just seen the other night on TV. |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Mar 4, 2024 0:58:46 GMT
Here's what I consider to be a lovely picture of Ida Lupino - All at once, she looks charming, seductive, intelligent, and gorgeous. That's what I think of her in the movie "THE MAN I LOVE", which I had just seen the other night on TV. While Ida was fine looking in all decades I find her 40s look the most "charming, seductive, intelligent, and gorgeous". MOVIES-TV has been showing The Man I Love a lot (on again today as part of their Sunday-Noir programming). |
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Post by Cinemaniac on Mar 4, 2024 4:43:46 GMT
Yes, JamesJazzGuitar, I was honestly going to mention how MOVIES! has been showing "THE MAN I LOVE" an awful lot within the past month, likewise "MOONTIDE". I don't know if either of these films have ever been shown on TCM's "NOIR ALLEY" yet, but I do recall Eddie Muller saying during the opening commentary for "WOMAN IN HIDING", that "THE MAN I LOVE" is the movie in which Ida is her most glamorous. Who can argue with that? She was very slim during that time, but very shapely and just as stunning. Her voice is so dreamy and alluring as she sings the title song in the beginning of the movie. At least I hope that WAS really Ida and that her voice wasn't exactly dubbed. i do kind of take a liking to her style when she dons that "poodle-like" hairdo.
If anyone gets this channel called "RetroTV", you can see Ida's television work as part of the TV series "FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE". She would star in some episodes, while others would feature either Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, or David Niven. I believe Ida has directed some of the episodes in which she has starred.
Incidentally, although she doesn't star in the movie, so to speak, MOVIES! aired "THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS" today, which actually was directed by Ida.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 4, 2024 13:27:09 GMT
Yes, JamesJazzGuitar, I was honestly going to mention how MOVIES! has been showing "THE MAN I LOVE" an awful lot within the past month, likewise "MOONTIDE". I don't know if either of these films have ever been shown on TCM's "NOIR ALLEY" yet, but I do recall Eddie Muller saying during the opening commentary for "WOMAN IN HIDING", that "THE MAN I LOVE" is the movie in which Ida is her most glamorous. Who can argue with that? She was very slim during that time, but very shapely and just as stunning. Her voice is so dreamy and alluring as she sings the title song in the beginning of the movie. At least I hope that WAS really Ida and that her voice wasn't exactly dubbed. i do kind of take a liking to her style when she dons that "poodle-like" hairdo. If anyone gets this channel called "RetroTV", you can see Ida's television work as part of the TV series "FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE". She would star in some episodes, while others would feature either Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, or David Niven. I believe Ida has directed some of the episodes in which she has starred. Incidentally, although she doesn't star in the movie, so to speak, MOVIES! aired "THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS" today, which actually was directed by Ida. IMDb says Ida's voice was dubbed by Peg La Centra in The Man I Love (1947). However, the next year she played a singer again in Road House (1948) and her own voice was used. It has a husky quality which fits the character of a lounge singer on the lower rungs of the entertainment field. Many singers have said that a good singer needs to be somewhat of an actor as well in order to really sell a song and I think it's as much Ida's skill as an actress as it is her actual vocal chops which sells this song. For comparison, this is Peg La Centra from The Man I Love. (Even though the YouTube poster identifies it as Ida.) |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Mar 4, 2024 16:43:37 GMT
Yes, JamesJazzGuitar, I was honestly going to mention how MOVIES! has been showing "THE MAN I LOVE" an awful lot within the past month, likewise "MOONTIDE". I don't know if either of these films have ever been shown on TCM's "NOIR ALLEY" yet, but I do recall Eddie Muller saying during the opening commentary for "WOMAN IN HIDING", that "THE MAN I LOVE" is the movie in which Ida is her most glamorous. Who can argue with that? She was very slim during that time, but very shapely and just as stunning. Her voice is so dreamy and alluring as she sings the title song in the beginning of the movie. At least I hope that WAS really Ida and that her voice wasn't exactly dubbed. i do kind of take a liking to her style when she dons that "poodle-like" hairdo. If anyone gets this channel called "RetroTV", you can see Ida's television work as part of the TV series "FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE". She would star in some episodes, while others would feature either Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, or David Niven. I believe Ida has directed some of the episodes in which she has starred. Incidentally, although she doesn't star in the movie, so to speak, MOVIES! aired "THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS" today, which actually was directed by Ida. Have you seen Road House? This was released in 1948, a year after The Man I Love and Ida has that same look but set the setting is a Road House in the mountains, her wardrove is less glamorous but more reveling. This is a 20th Century Fox film and my favorite Ida noir. It also features Richard Widmark (still in his mad-at-the-world persona), Cornel Wilde (in one of his more animated roles), and the always-gives-a-great-performance, Celese Holmes as the 3rd wheel. MOVIES use to show Fox films but since the Disney deal less Fox films and more Warner Bros films like The Man I Love (which of course, TCM features as well). |
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Post by Cinemaniac on Mar 5, 2024 4:35:50 GMT
Yes, JamesJazzGuitar, I was honestly going to mention how MOVIES! has been showing "THE MAN I LOVE" an awful lot within the past month, likewise "MOONTIDE". I don't know if either of these films have ever been shown on TCM's "NOIR ALLEY" yet, but I do recall Eddie Muller saying during the opening commentary for "WOMAN IN HIDING", that "THE MAN I LOVE" is the movie in which Ida is her most glamorous. Who can argue with that? She was very slim during that time, but very shapely and just as stunning. Her voice is so dreamy and alluring as she sings the title song in the beginning of the movie. At least I hope that WAS really Ida and that her voice wasn't exactly dubbed. i do kind of take a liking to her style when she dons that "poodle-like" hairdo. If anyone gets this channel called "RetroTV", you can see Ida's television work as part of the TV series "FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE". She would star in some episodes, while others would feature either Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, or David Niven. I believe Ida has directed some of the episodes in which she has starred. Incidentally, although she doesn't star in the movie, so to speak, MOVIES! aired "THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS" today, which actually was directed by Ida. Have you seen Road House? This was released in 1948, a year after The Man I Love and Ida has that same look but set the setting is a Road House in the mountains, her wardrove is less glamorous but more reveling. This is a 20th Century Fox film and my favorite Ida noir. It also features Richard Widmark (still in his mad-at-the-world persona), Cornel Wilde (in one of his more animated roles), and the always-gives-a-great-performance, Celese Holmes as the 3rd wheel. MOVIES use to show Fox films but since the Disney deal less Fox films and more Warner Bros films like The Man I Love (which of course, TCM features as well). I've never seen "ROAD HOUSE" before. I hope either TCM or else MOVIES! could show it at some time. I believe in the "NOIR ALLEY" commentary for "WOMAN IN HIDING", Eddie Muller also mentioned this film as being one of the examples of Ida looking her most attractive, alongside "THE MAN I LOVE". MOVIES! still shows films from 20th Century Fox from time to time. One of those films I've mentioned was "MOONTIDE". I keep forgetting that's a Fox film, since I've long been under the impression that it was from Warner Bros. So far, MOVIES! has been showing several Fox noirs with Gene Tierney this month such as "LAURA" and "THE RAZOR'S EDGE", and sometimes they'd air various Shirley Temple movies, including those poorly colorized versions from the mid 1980s. I believe this month, MOVIES! will also air "PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET", a superb noir film with Richard Widmark (whom you had just mentioned) and the highly seductive and always gorgeous Jean Peters (who I sometimes thinks looks ALMOST like Ida only based of her hairstyle). I really like Celeste Holm. She's another great actress just like Ida. It would be great to see those two together in a movie. While on the topic of Ida's true beauty, I'd suggest anyone first look at any of the pictures of Ida above, such as mine that I've described as "charming, seductive, etc.". Now take a gander at this extraordinarily intelligent and beautiful picture of Ida -  Attachments:
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