The Bigamist

Born in 1918 into a family that had been involved in the performing arts for generations, Ida Lupino grew up and made her acting debut in England before leaving to try her luck in Hollywood. She multiplies the roles from the 1930s and knows a great success in the 1940s, playing over time for Raoul Walsh, Delmer Daves, Nicholas Ray, Robert Aldrich, Fritz Lang and many others. But her success as an actress did not quite fulfill her: she was mainly interested in directing and founded the production company The Filmmakers with her husband, Collier Young. In 1949, she directed her first film, Not Wanted, becoming the following year the only woman in the film directors' union. In a few years, she forcefully imposed a voice of a filmmaker apart: because of the rarity of her gaze, her characters and her themes in a male industry as well as her remarkable mastery of staging and tension, which led her to be the first woman to direct a film noir with The Hitch-Hiker.