Women, according to these stalwart defenders of male superiority [in the 1940s and 1950s], may not be film musical directors, cameramen, set designers, composers, assistant directors, directors, or production managers. The only sort of job encouragement some women got in the early days of Hollywood was the portrayal of women on the screen. Sometimes, I suspect we were resented for even this intrusion.
— Ida Lupino, in the foreword to Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera by Mary Ann Anderson with Ida Lupino.
Photo: Ida Lupino on the set of her film The Hitch-Hiker (1953), with actors Edmond O’Brien and William Talman.
originally published in The Vintage Classics on October 20, 2018
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