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On the set of “Lust for Gold” (1949):

“Cameraman Archie Stout, star Ida Lupino and camera operator Kit Carson chat between scenes”

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On an outdoor set, Stout and Lupino smile broadly at each other while Carson leans in from the right. Lupino is in costume with dirtied face and holds a mug in her right hand. A tall camera platform is visible behind them.
August 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Ida Lupino makes her entrance in “Lust for Gold” (1949) — looking after Glenn Ford, intrigued along with the crowd, by his gold discovery.

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August 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford confer with Director S. Sylvan Simon on the set of “Lust for Gold” (1949).

Ida carefully observed the behind-the-scenes work on this film, using it as her final training ground before launching her producing and directing career just three months later.

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Simon, seated with legs crossed, talks to Ford and Lupino, standing in costume. Ford has his left arm draped over Lupino’s shoulders.
August 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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In the noir-western “Lust for Gold” (1949), Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford play ruthless 19th-century treasure seekers on the hunt for a missing trove of gold in Arizona mountains. Their half of the movie—bookended by a modern story of another gold seeker—is the highlight.

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On a rock face, a bedraggled Lupino grabs at Ford from below. Ford looks at her menacingly while holding a rifle.
August 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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The randomizer has selected for our next Ida Lupino Film-of-the-Week …

LUST FOR GOLD (1949)

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Italian poster for Lust For Gold starting Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino, directed by S. Sylvan Simon Poster for Lust for Gold
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Both Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart were promoted to stardom by Warner Bros. immediately before working together in “High Sierra” (1941).

Many rumors suggest they did not get along. Other stories say they were very close. What’s the story here?

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Making sense of the Lupino-Bogart feud
The 1941 Warner Brothers film *High Sierra* was a landmark in the careers of its stars, Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart—marking a transition from years of frustration to full-fledged stardom for both. ...
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August 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Here is Ida Lupino discussing an interaction with Humphrey Bogart while they were working on “High Sierra” (1941)—from the 1967 television documentary “Bogart.”

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August 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Humphrey Bogart inspects a bruised Ida Lupino in a scene from “High Sierra” (1941).

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Beside a table with a lamp, Bogart holds Lupino’s chin to look at a bruise on her cheek near her left eye.
August 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This one is from San Bernardino Daily Sun, Aug. 21, 1940

“During a lull in the filming of scenes for 'High Sierra' at Arrowhead Hot Springs, Russ Saunders, former All-America football player and now an assistant movie director, hurls Ida Lupino into the spa's pool, clothes and all.”

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Saunders holds Lupino high above the pool as if to toss her in. Lupino, mouth agape, holds arm high in air. Caption: “During a lull in the filming of scenes for 'High Sierra' at Arrowhead Hot Springs, Russ Saunders, former All-America football player and now an assistant movie director, hurls Ida Lupino into the spa's pool, clothes and all. Miss Lupino with Humphrey Bogart and a company of 80 players and extras were at the hotel Monday and Monday night, shooting scenes for 'High Sierra,' a new Warner Brothers film.”
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Ida Lupino, Director Raoul Walsh and Humphrey Bogart working on “High Sierra” (1941)

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The three sitting together behind the scenes on an indoor set, movie crew and equipment visible in background. Walsh in the middle is reviewing a script. Bogart appears to be talking to Lupino, who is smiling back.
July 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The dog “Pard” in “High Sierra” had a significant role. The dog actor Zero has been widely rumored to have been Bogart’s own dog.

Alas, no, Zero belonged to Rennie Renfro, a major provider of dogs in Hollywood films. Other films Zero was in include “Day-time Wife” at Fox (1939).

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Humphrey Bogart posing with Zero jumping through a circle Bogart makes with his arms, in costume for “High Sierra” (1941).
July 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Ida Lupino with Wade Boteler and James Blaine in a scene from “High Sierra” (Warners, 1941)

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In front of large rocks, the three look upwards into the distance with concerned looks. Bottler wears leather jacket and cowboy hat; Blaine in rear has police cap and badge. Lupino wears and overcoat and her hair is slightly disheveled.
July 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino and dialogue director Irving Rapper review the “High Sierra” script poolside during down time while shooting at Arrowhead Springs resort, August 1940.

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Bogart, Lupino and Rapper sitting on lawn with a resort pool behind them. Bogart is swim trunks, Lupino in light-colored outfit with slacks, Rapper shirtless in long pants. Rapper points to papers laid out on the ground in front of him while the others look on with amused expressions. Caption: “This pleasant picture of Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, left, with Irving Rapper, dialogue director, while on location for "High Sierra," makes us doubt the rumors that Ida and Bogey were tiffing because one was trying to steal scenes from the other.”
July 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino in a publicity still for “High Sierra” (1941).

Lupino on Bogart: “He was the most loyal, wonderful guy in the world.”

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Bogart sitting, holding rifle in lap, looking intensely into the distance. Lupino sits behind him, leaning in, hand on his shoulder, looks at him with concern.
July 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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The next randomly-selected Ida Lupino Film-of-the-Week is … perhaps her most well-known …

HIGH SIERRA (1941)

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Poster for High Sierra from Warner Brothers pressbook. Extra wide layout with large title across top. Mountain landscape in background. Bogart pointing gun at viewer while Lupino on knees next to him holds him about the hips. HIGH SIERRA IDA LUPINO HUMPHREY BOGART Alan Curtis • Arthur Kennedy • Joan Leslie Henry Hull • Henry Travers Directed By RAOUL WALSH Presented By WARNER BROS.
July 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Director William Wellman recounts the story of how he cast Ida Lupino in a critical role for her career in “The Light That Failed” (1939) — from a 1958 episode of “This is Your Life”

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July 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Incident on the set of “The Light That Failed” (1939):

Walter Huston’s radio blows an intimate scene between Ida Lupino and Ronald Colman by blaring “This is real cheese!”

“It was half an hour before Mr. Colman and Miss Lupino even could look at each other without snickering.”

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Newspaper excerpt, July 20, 1939 By Paul Harrison NEA Service Staff Writer Hollywood, July 20—All over the lot: On the set of "The Light That Failed," Ida Lupino and Ronald Colman were rehearsing an ardent love seene under the direction—or at least the appreciative eye—of Wild Bill Wellman. Next to Mr. Wellman sat Walter Huston, holding a portable radio on his lap and idly twisting its dials. Just as the players went into a clinch the instrument gave a squawk and an announcer blared: "This is real cheese . . . !" Morale of the entire company was shattered. The embarrassed Mr. Huston frantically turned all the switches. It was half an hour before Mr. Colman and Miss Lupino even could look at each other without snickering. And Mr. Wellman's neuritis practically killed him for the rest of the day. Lupino and Colman in a clinch in a scene from The Light That Failed.
July 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Ida Lupino in “The Light That Failed” (Paramount, 1939)

"Ida Lupino's Bessie is another of the surprises we get when a little ingenue suddenly bursts forth as a great actress." — Frank Nugent, New York Times

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Medium closeup of Lupino in a simple dress seated in front of a large window, small box in her lap.
July 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Sketches of the cast of “The Light That Failed” (1939) from the Paramount press book.

Top row: Ronald Colman, Muriel Angelus
Bottom row: Ernest Cossart, Dudley Digges, Ida Lupino and Walter Huston

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“From the thrill-packed pages of the most famous Rudyard Kipling story of them all—‘The Light That Failed’—emerge the exciting characters that distinguish the story of the artist-adventurer for whom glory was not enough. The inset shows Ronald Colman, who stars in the film coming…….to the........Theatre. Grouped about him, in clockwise fashion, are Muriel Angelus, Walter Huston, Ida Lupino, Dudley Digges and Ernest Cossart. Sketches are by a celebrated American artist. They were made on the set.”
July 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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“The Light That Failed” was released in the last week of 1939. Famed columnist Mark Hellinger wrote in January 1940:

“Ida Lupino turns in a performance that might have won her an Academy Award as a supporting player if the picture had been released a bit earlier.”

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Mark Hellinger column excerpt, January 1940: Random Notes About Pictures You're Seeing: Although it gets off to something of a slow start, "THE LIGHT THAT FAILED" overcomes that handicap and winds up as one of the best pictures in which Ronald Colman has ever appeared. Producer-Director William Wellman has taken the famous Rudyard Kipling story and made of it as fine a piece of screen entertainment as you are likely to see in many and many a moon. As I say, the early portion drags-but the last half of the film is touching, and honest, and real. Colman, as always, is superb-while Ida Lupino turns in a performance that might have won her an Academy Award as a supporting player if the picture had been released a bit earlier. "THE LIGHT THAT FAILED" is genuinely worth while... Ida Lupino and Ronald Colman in a scene from The Light That Failed. Lupino sits in a chair in front of a large picture window. Colman holds a painter’s pallette, leans in towards Lupino, and with a paintbrush in his right hand gestures at Lupino, while she recoils in her chair.
July 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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“The Light That Failed” (1939) was a critical film for Ida Lupino. After six years in Hollywood of playing ingenues and light comediennes, she convinced director William Wellman to give her the plum dramatic supporting role of Bessie Broke. It transformed her image and her career.

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Promotional photo for The Light That Failed in low key lighting showing Ronald Colman towering over Lupino, aggressively grabbing both of her wrists. Lupino is made up to look disheveled and tired and has an alarmed look on her face.
July 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Our third randomly selected Ida Lupino Film-of-the-Week is …

“The Light That Failed” (1939)

Adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story about an artist that loses his sight, starring Ronald Colman and directed by William Wellman for Paramount.

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Poster for The Light That Failed: “Ronald Colman in Rudyard Kipling’s The Light That Failed with Walter Huston Ida Lupino Muriel Angelus Dudley Digges.” Posted art shows Colman as an artist painting British soldiers. Italian poster for The Light That Failed: “La Luce Che Spense”. Poster art show Colman sitting pensively with Lupino kneeling next to him.
July 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Ida Lupino’s last and possibly worst film “My Boys Are Good Boys” (1978) has been readily available on home video for many years, but any information on the actual production is extremely sparse.

Lupino herself said made this one comment on her experience:

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Lupino quoted in “Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera” by Mary Ann Anderson: "My Boys are Good Boys—I was so bored in this picture, I told the director to put me in the police car and drive me off of the set. He did!"
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The next Ida Lupino Film-of-the-Week as determined randomly is “My Boys Are Good Boys” (1978). This was her last film appearance and perhaps the worst film she ever was in.

She is highly billed but has a small role. The images on this poster are indicative of the film’s content.

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Poster for My Boys Are Good Boys “starring Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino, Lloyd Nolan, David F. Doyle,” showing a group of teenagers with ski masks pushed up on their foreheads. Below that is a collage of car chase and other destructive hoodlum imagery.
July 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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“Never Fear” (1949) is the one and only Ida Lupino currently on Criterion Channel.

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Never Fear
Directed by Ida Lupino • 1950 • United States Starring Sally Forrest, Keefe Brassellle, Hugh O’Brian With the polio epidemic striking terror in the hearts of millions—in 1949, it caused more than 2,7...
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July 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM