Tema: Cine Pre-Code (1930-1934)

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Hoy, en "un retazo de fotografía pre-code": Los inicios de Ida Lupino



Ida Lupino (1918 – 1995), fue una actriz y directora cinematográfica angloestadounidense. En Hollywood, fue la primera mujer pionera en su campo que a partir de la década de 1940 realizaría simultáneamente actividades de dirección, guión y producción cinematográfica. A continuación repasaremos someramente sus comienzos en la industria a través de algunos artículos y fotografías.

Ida Lupino was signed by Paramount Pictures in the summer of 1933 to a long-term contract; transportation from London for her and her mother was included with her $600.00 per week salary. A Los Angeles court had to approve Ms. Lupino’s contract, prior to it being finalized; with the green-light from the bench, Ida and her mother Constance Lupino departed from Southampton, England, on August 19, sailing on the S. S. Berengaria, and arrived in New York on August 25, 1933.

The rumor-mill was fully churning by August of 1933, speculating that Lupino had been brought to the states, to play Alice, in the upcoming Paramount production, Alice in Wonderland (this gossip began in England) which would be directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Lupino’s next leg of her journey was by air and when she arrived in Los Angeles she was airsick, in fact quite ill; once recovered and her land-legs beneath her, she was chaperoned by Tinsel-Town legends, Al Kaufman and Adolph Zukor as they visited the late-spots in Hollywood.

1934

8/30/33

HOLLYWOOD BOUND!

HAVING TRAVELED 6,000 MILES IN LESS THAN SEVEN DAYS, JUST TO MAKE A HOLLYWOOD SCREEN TEST, MISS IDA LUPINO, 16-YEAR-OLD MEMBER OF THE FAMOUS ENGLISH FAMILY WHICH HAS MADE STAGE HISTORY FOR THE LAST 350 YEARS, ARRIVED IN LOS ANGELES TODAY VIA WESTERN AIR EXPRESS WITH HER MOTHER, MRS. STANLEY LUPINO. MISS LUPINO WILL MAKE A SCREEN TEST TO PLAY ALICE IN “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” FOR PARAMOUNT.
PHOTO SHOWS MISS IDA LUPINO AS SHE ARRIVED AT UNITED AIRPORT VIA WESTERN AIR EXPRESS.

1934

Ida’s first Paramount film was (eighth overall, the first seven produced in England), “Search for Beauty”, which was released in February of 1934, followed by, “Come On, Marines!”, (March of 1934), and “Ready for Love which was released in November of 1934. This last entry for 1934, Ready for Love”, was well advertised and well received, her last two films of 1934 co-starred Richard Arlen.