Road House (1948) - Ida Lupino - One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

[@Seabasstien]

This is a torch song and Ida Lupino nails it like the amazing actress she is. This was the first version I ever heard of it and still my favorite.

[@davidahrens2841]

Stunning!!

[@savoirgai]

The cigarette stub is one of the greatest forms of suspense ever devised.

[@andrewjwheelerjr275]

This lets you know that she has many talents and abilities and skills and experience she was genuinely a genius so wonderful indeed happy birthday beautiful lovely intelligent actress😞😭.

[@Telstar62a]

Also smart enough to know that acting couldn't last forever. So she learned as much as she could from the people working on her films by asking questions, and got into producing and directing between acting gigs. Very intelligent and really a pioneer for women directors.

[@steveweinstein3222]

"She does more without a voice than anyone I've ever heard. "

[@quabledistocficklepo3597]

Yeah, I wanted to see the movie until I saw those words. I mean, I was wondering if we were supposed to pretend that she was giving a good performance (A willing suspension of disbelief). As soon as I learn how to upload songs from my iMac, I'll be posting one from a famous actress who really could sing: Rita Hayworth.

[@steveweinstein3222]

@@quabledistocficklepo3597 Rita Hayworth never sang in her movies. She was always dubbed.

[@susiewatkins1775]

@@quabledistocficklepo3597 Perhaps you should actually watch the movie and look a little deeper into Ida Lupino's career before making such a remark.

[@princeandrey]

I love Ida Lupino. And I love they way they're all standing around awestruck--as if she could sing!!

[@sheilabrewster6810]

Ida not only was one of the best actresses, but also one of the very best singers I've heard, and that's coming from another Torch singer, me. I've learned a lot just watching Ida Lupino. She was very special.

[@dociebiemowie915]

One of the very best singers you have ever heard? 😂😂

[@wendyarbes9514]

One of the best versions

[@kathowed]

Thank you! Ida's version of this has haunted me since I first saw Road House 20 years ago.

[@kaf890890]

Exactly

[@MOGGS1942]

Smokin', in more ways than one.

[@rockbottom622]

This languid singing is splendid

[@sheilabrewster6810]

I love the way Ida Lupino, and her Songs

[@michaeloleary1867]

It's great!

[@zeldasmith6154]

Ida was spectacular.

[@SleepyLestatSF]

This is why so often that non singing actors and actresses are my favorite kind of singers

[@bisedwards6985]

In Ida's case, her emotional-talk singing trumps a "voice," plus the arrangement is perfect for her.

[@MonaLisa-zz5cv]

For those who haven't seen the movie, her voice is like that because her (poor) father wanted her to be an opera singer, but while self-teaching herself she ended up permanently damaging her voice. She drifts around looking for work as a singer, never claiming to be good at what she does, and indulging in her bad habit of smoking. The character Pete, who was most critical of her, gets to know her and warms up to her and they become friends.

[@princeandrey]

Interesting.

[@bisedwards6985]

Thank you.

[@FutureLegendRecords]

Its the more important to have a distinctive voice then by a run of the mill technically very good singer like so many around today. If Ida was still around we would sign her up in heartbeat. She has star quality as well of course.

[@WestalSage]

Right - I'll take stylistic and unique and pretty good, over technically very good, any day

[@End-Result]

"We're goin' to the roadhouse... gonna have us a real good time..." - Roadhouse Blues

[@tyronepower6521]

I'm watching this now

[@DJarry394]

Mesmerizing

[@bluewave7120]

She was one tough cookie!

[@sierramike5259]

I only wish she was singing about me.....

[@leelarson107]

This sounds almost like some of Etta James' songs, but without the screaming into the microphone. Ida Lupino was much under-rated, as an actress, as a director, and as a beautiful woman.

[@juujhg1874]

Lololol, there’s nothing remotely close to Ella James. Not voice, not delivery, texture, or harmony. I can see the charm but she isn’t even really singing. But thing again characterizing Etta James “as screaming into the microphone” pretty much says it all. In some backwards way, I suspect you Ella Fitzgerald because how she stresses the words of the song is similar to how Ella actually SUNG it.

[@princeandrey]

@@juujhg1874 Yes, it isn't really singing--but she's very effective.

[@leelarson107]

@@juujhg1874 Etta James butchered every song she ever did. She traded on 'political correctness'.

[@juujhg1874]

@@leelarson107 lololol. Once again, you have no idea what you are talking about. Etta James never did anything remotely political correct nor did she traded on anything but her talent. Sounds like you’re just too scared to make the comment you want to make so ppl can see your ignorance and just happen to be unfortunate enough to expose yourself to picking the wrong singer. The one literally known for being politically incorrect.

[@asharpmajor6740]

From Wikipedia: Ida Lupino (4 February 1918[1] - 3 August 1995) was a British actress, singer, director, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system.[2] With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953. Among her other directed films, the best known are Not Wanted, about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit); Never Fear (1949), loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953) (which was named in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die); and The Trouble with Angels (1966). Her short yet immensely influential directorial career, tackling themes of women trapped by social conventions, usually under melodramatic or noir coverings, is a pioneering example of proto-feminist filmmaking.[3] As an actress, her best known films are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) with Basil Rathbone; They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; High Sierra (1941) with Bogart; The Sea Wolf (1941) with Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield; Ladies in Retirement (1941) with Louis Hayward; Moontide (1942) with Jean Gabin; The Hard Way (1943); Deep Valley (1947) with Dane Clark; Road House (1948) with Cornel Wilde and Richard Widmark; While the City Sleeps (1956) with Dana Andrews and Vincent Price; and Junior Bonner (1972) with Steve McQueen. She also directed more than 100 episodes of television shows in a variety of genres, including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories.[4] She was the only woman to direct an episode of the original The Twilight Zone series ("The Masks"), and the only director to star in an episode ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine").[5]

[@WestalSage]

All that, a bag of chips, and a killer director is what she was.

[@neuvocastezero1838]

I think she directed some episodes of Gunsmoke too.

[@brianniegemann4788]

Way too many things to say about Ida than would fit here. Suffice it that this is one of my favorite songs- especially the little 5-note "ting-ting, ting-a-lee" between the verses.

[@freedomisfree4032]

This sounds terrible But the best

[@master-kq3nw]

She is good actor but not good.singer

[@dociebiemowie915]

She sounds like she has a cold.