Ida Lupino: Hard, Fast, and Beautiful

January 13–February 24, 2018

A talented actress turned groundbreaking director, Lupino left an indelible impression on cinema from both sides of the camera.

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  • High Sierra

  • The Bigamist

  • Moontide

  • They Drive by Night

  • The Hitch-Hiker

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Past Films

  • They Drive by Night

    Raoul Walsh
    United States, 1940
    Saturday, January 13 8 PM

    An atmospheric tale of long-haul truckers (Humphrey Bogart and George Raft) during the Great Depression. Ida Lupino’s performance as the ambitious, frustrated wife of the boss made her a star overnight.

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  • Moontide

    Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang
    United States, 1942

    4K Digital Restoration

    Sunday, January 14 7 PM

    A luminous Ida Lupino stars as a distraught woman saved from suicide by a hard-drinking longshoreman (the great French actor Jean Gabin in his American debut) in Fritz Lang and Archie Mayo’s atmospheric thriller-cum–fairy tale.

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  • Outrage

    Ida Lupino
    United States, 1950

    Imported Archival Print

    Saturday, January 20 8 PM

    Few Hollywood films address the aftereffects of rape like Lupino’s powerful work, which tracks one brutalized woman’s difficult steps towards recovery. “One of the crucial movies of the era, Outrage looks intimately, painfully, and analytically at what we now know to call rape culture” (New Yorker).

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  • High Sierra

    Raoul Walsh
    United States, 1941
    Sunday, January 21 4 PM

    High Sierra ushered in the era of the gangster as existential antihero, with Humphrey Bogart as a wanted man hiding out in the Sierras and Ida Lupino as the cabaret singer who loves him.

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  • Never Fear

    Ida Lupino
    United States, 1949

    Archival Print

    Saturday, January 27 4 PM

    A young dancer finds her promising career threatened by polio in Lupino’s first fully credited directorial effort, a blend of steadfastly un-melodramatic melodrama with the gritty aesthetics of docu-noir.

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  • The Hitch-Hiker

    Ida Lupino
    United States, 1953

    Archival Print

    Saturday, February 10 8 PM

    Two fishing buddies pick up a hitchhiker on their way to Baja, with potentially deadly results, in Lupino’s high-tension thriller. Photographed by the great noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca.

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  • Hard, Fast and Beautiful

    Ida Lupino
    United States, 1951

    Archival Print

    Sunday, February 11 7 PM

    Lupino’s taut tennis drama depicts the complexities and limits of female ambition in postwar suburban America and offers an early exposé of corruption in amateur sports.

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  • The Bigamist

    Ida Lupino
    United States, 1953

    Archival Print

    Saturday, February 17 8 PM

    A salesman commutes between two wives, two classes, and two cities—San Francisco and Los Angeles—in Lupino’s drama of married life and moral tension. Edmond O’Brien, Joan Fontaine, and Lupino star.

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  • On Dangerous Ground

    Nicholas Ray
    United States, 1951
    Saturday, February 24 8:30 PM

    On a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in Nicholas Ray’s eloquent, brooding noir. Bernard Herrmann provides the score.

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