Trivia: Ida Lupino - Actor

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Salaries: Deep Valley (1947) - 95,000 Out of the Fog (1941) - $40,000

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Spouses: Howard Duff (October 21, 1951 - 1984) (divorced, 1 child) Collier Young (August 5, 1948 - October 20, 1951) (divorced) Louis Hayward (November 16, 1938 - May 11, 1945) (divorced)

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Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

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She became an American citizen in 1948.

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Her career lasted 48 years. She acted in 59 films, 45 television series, directed 8 films, and directed more than 100 television episodes, most of which she wrote and produced. She wrote 8 films and produced two films.

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She was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards in 1959, 58, and 57, and won the NBR Award in 1941 and 1942, the NYFCC Award in 1943, the Golden Scroll Award in 1976, and the Muse Award in 1998. She also received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her film and television work.

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She was the second woman to be accepted into the Directors Guild, the first being Dorothy Arzner.

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She contracted polio when she came to America in 1934, due to polluted swimming pools, but she recovered from it, and this motivated her to help organizations combating the disease.

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She used her period of illness with polio to write music.

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She was the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker (1953).