If you want to learn more about Ida Lupino and her fascinating life and career, here are the essential books:
- Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera, by Mary Ann Anderson with Ida Lupino, originally published 2011. 100th birthday special edition published 2018.
This is the closest thing we will ever have to an Ida Lupino memoir. Alas it is thin on detail on Ida's life prior to 1983, and some of her early career detail appears chronologically inconsistent (likely relying on Ida's memory decades later). Yet this is a fascinating and crucial book for anyone who wants to get an understanding of Ida as a person. Mary Ann Anderson knew Ida better than anyone from 1983 until Ida's death in 1995.
- Ida Lupino: A Biography, by William Donati, originally published 1995.
A wonderful and detailed biography, published shortly after Ida's death, by someone who clearly highly respected her, faults and all. If you read Anderson's book, you learn that Ida and Donati had a falling out. You would never know from reading Donati's book.
Supplemental material:
- Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition, by Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman, published 2017.
An academic-style book on Ida's directing career, both film and television.
- _Mr. Adams and Eve, Illustrated*, by Mary Ann Anderson, published 2010.
More stories straight from the source, and lots of great pictures as well.
- The Making of the Hitch-Hiker, Illustrated, by Mary Ann Anderson, published 2013.
More from Anderson, so always worthwhile.
Goodreads link: Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera, by Mary Ann Anderson with Ida Lupino
originally posted in The Vintage Classics on October 30, 2018
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