Ida Lupino moved to Hollywood from London in 1933, at the age of fifteen. She was already a film veteran, and then-blonde Ida was signed by Paramount as a candidate for the lead in Alice in Wonderland. That did not pan out.
“You cannot play naive if you’re not. I never had any childhood,” Ida said.
But she was featured in numerous films at Paramount over the next few years, starting with Search for Beauty with Buster Crabbe. In 1937, at 19, in search of more substantive roles, she left her contract and went free-lance.
This did not work out immediately and she was off-screen for over a year. But of course in the long run, her move payed off tremendously and she became a top star at Warner Bros. in the 1940s.
Here are a few picture from her early years at Paramount.
originally posted in The Vintage Classics on October 20, 2018
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