When Ida Lupino was working as an actress under contract to Warner Bros. in the 1940s, she joked that she was “the poor man’s Bette Davis,” partly because she tended to be offered parts that Davis had ...

“There was an absolute and ironclad caste system in the film capital in the 1940s and 1950s,” Ida Lupino once wrote, that “had its primary purpose to exclude females.” A Hollywood star who had a ...