Not Wanted b/w drama movie

[lg325]

It is well done on a sensitive subject.

 

[Rambunctious]

She was a very hard worker and has a movie list that would make Clint Eastwood's look small....
She even did TV... I think she did a couple of Mod Squad episodes as well as Charlies Angels... very talented woman... scratch that... very talented Director....

 

[lg325]

She was a very hard worker and has a movie list that would make Clint Eastwood's look small....
She even did TV... I think she did a couple of Mod Squad episodes as well as Charlies Angels... very talented woman... scratch that... very talented Director....

Producer and director-actor Ida Lapino did it well. The actress Sally Forrest did a fine job in this role.

 

[Rambunctious]

Producer and director-actor Ida Lapino did it well. The actress Sally Forrest did a fine job in this role.

Thanks for that I plan on watching the full movie after lunch... I love the old films....

 

[Flopper]

Producer and director-actor Ida Lapino did it well. The actress Sally Forrest did a fine job in this role.

Yes, she did it well both in this movie and just about everything else. In childhood she was forced into acting when she really wanted to write. She wrote her first play when she was seven, had memorized all female leads in Shakespeare's plays by twelve and was acting in them at 14. Got an acting contract with Paramount when when she was 16 and caught Polio and lost the contract and spent two years recovering. Even thou she never fully recovered she got an acting contract with Warner Brothers. She played opposite almost all the major stars in the 30's and 40's, Ronald Reagan, Clark Gable, Ronald Coleman, Humphrey Bogart, etc but she never really reached stardom because she bucked the studio. She refused to take parts she thought were beneath her and insisted on rewriting her lines. Although she was as beautiful as any of Warner's top stars, she refused to play the role of the dumb glamor girl and ended up being suspended by Warner for a year. She used that time to learn how movies are made, not just acting. She continue with Warmer till the late 40's when she move to 20th Century Fox where she became interested in directing and writing. She became bored with acting but the studio did not offer the opportunities she wanted in directing.

She and her husband formed their own production company which gave her the opportunity to write, produce and direct. They produced a number of socially conscious films dealing with subjects the major studios would not touch such as bigamy, rape, poverty, race, and polio of which she had quite a bit of experience. She wanted to make low cost, realistic movies that were entertaining and she succeeded. Although these movies were profitable they were not profitable enough so she went back into acting.

As the studios declined in the late fifties she turned to TV where she both acted, directed, wrote hundreds of episodes in famous series such as the Alfred Hickock Hour, Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Star Trek, etc... Throughout her life what she did, she did well.

During her life she did it all from dancing and singing in a traveling troop to Shakespeare as a youngster. In movies, she acted, wrote, directed, and produced and did the same on TV. She was the first female director of a major production, first to advertise products in the movies, and the first film noir female director. She was personally and politically active supporting social issues well before they became popular. Yet today she is mostly unknown except by classic film buffs.