Ida Lupino's Surprising and Fitting Final Film | Film 101

[@jmbrinck]

I am in TCM's debt for highlighting the magnificent talent, Ida Lupino. One of my greatest regrets was not having met her as a child. For a time she was married to my Great Uncle, Collier Young, brother of my maternal Irish grandmother. My mother often spoke of her as one of the most intelligent and engaging women she had ever met. Her films leave me humble. And though it was a major directorial departure for Lupino, "The Trouble with Angels" was a charming film I saw many times over, and it never got old to me. Thank you, TCM. Our film greats live in you.

[@thomasdonio2129]

Most astute commentary. I loved The Trouble with Angels. It had everything a good film should have: Good plot development and script, well-delineated characters, great cast, and a window into the soul, which is most important for a film of this nature. Ida Lupino was a fantastic actress and director who is now finally receiving her due.

[@Rocks_Dad]

I first saw Ms. Lupino with Bogart in " High Sierra" . I thought she was a really good looking woman in that. Of course, I had to IMDB her and realized she was a force to be in the business of TV and filmmaking. I've found a whole new love of classic movies by seeing the actors and then learning via Google how they intertwine in the industry. Usually, several different people always cross paths. Ms. Lupinos career really impressed me once I learned who she was and what she had done.

[@fallenleaflakes]

'Road House' and 'Private Hell 36' are two of my fave Ida flicks.

[@davidburgess3882]

Also "They Drive by Night". Best Supporting Actress nomination.

[@FavouriteScaryMovie]

I saw The Trouble With Angels as a child, though it wasn’t until I revisited as an adult that it really became a favourite. As highlighted in this video, I really appreciate the complexity, the ambiguity, and the nuance of the film, and its resistance to becoming a more conventional, expected coming of age story. The theme of empathy certainly is clear throughout, and the film explores it beautifully. This has made me eager to rewatch it, and to check out Ida Lupino’s other films!

[@victorcate]

I have always thought Ida Lupino was a great actor and director. It is good to see her being honored here by TCM. I hope many more people get to see her honing her craft themselves. She was a very special talent on both sides of the camera.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Well said and well put.

[@mileshigh1321]

One of Hollywood's great directors and actors! Thankyou for doing this montage of her great works!

[@jubalcalif9100]

My sentiments exactly.

[@rubewaddell1704]

Ida Lupino was a great actor and director. R.I.P.

[@angelaholmes8888]

Yes she was

[@jubalcalif9100]

I heartily concur.

[@Labor_Jones]

You can feel the breath of a 'rebel,' but you have to own a shovel to notice their depth of genius. I would suggest kids read OLD `1960s Encyclopedias' whose pages are filled with discoveries and bravery for the people who took the road less taken. RIP Ms. Lupino!

[@jmbrinck]

I still have a complete set.

[@Labor_Jones]

@@jmbrinck that's cool..., we had 1960 and I was 7. They were in our Porch Room and front door to the house. My Dad decided to put his bar in the front of the house (1955 A-Frame $7,000) - I would sit at the bar for hours reading them. I think I read them all twice before I was 10. They had President Eisenhower's Speech about the Industrial Complex warning with a wonderful 2 page drawing of how far $1 Billion Dollars could do some much good if not spent on WAR or it's PRODUCTS. I took without knowing it, a disadvantage in my life and learned to read without a school for a few years. As an artist I can't really haul around 20 Volumes, and I've seen a lot of them going toward the dump or in such destroyed condition they should be. ENJOY :) - They are great reading! - m.

[@barrylangford3276]

Ida was a top star at Warner Brothers in the early 1940s, billed above Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra. As with so many of her contemporaries (Ann Sheridan, Joan Blondell, etc.) her days as a leading lady came to a premature end, but how marvellous that she began a second career. She was a very good director and deserved greater success in this field, but of course female directors at that time were given very few chances. The Trouble with Angels is a wonderful film which bears repeated viewings, and was a major hit, spawning a rather regrettable sequel which - minus Ida as director and Hayley Mills as star - flopped badly.

[@jmbrinck]

Yes, "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows." Even the theme song was a flop. Just proves you can't make a good film without a good director. And good actors.

[@Image_Orthocon]

It's the last time that Bogart would be billed below another actor.

[@elijahrose2144]

When we see T C M it's family coming together. I miss you so 😊 I wish they had a streaming movies about we can see you all❤❤❤

[@marlasotherchannel9847]

Season 2 episode 4 of "The Twilight Zone", "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine", Lupino stars as a faded film star but not a silent film star.

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

A marvellous trailblazing woman from Hollywood's 'Golden Age'. One of a kind. I absolutely adore all of her incredible work both in front and behind the camera. If I had to pick one? Well...

[@mattpierard]

Always loved Angels, as well as its well-meaning sequel; I'm surprised you don't mention the fate of the beautiful nun which Rosalind Russell recounts. I would have liked to have seen a quality second sequel with the grown-up Rachel bringing her daughter to the school, just to have Mary as her teacher. Hayley Mills is still around, not sure of her pal in the flick. As to Ms. Lupino herself, don't forget about her work in radio, a medium that gets way too little respect from source books on Golden Age of Cinema talent. She was in several Lux Theater episodes, including: The 39 Steps, Rebecca, A Woman's Face, and Wuthering Heights.

[@shelleynobleart]

Thank you for this. Gave me reasons to admire Ms. Lupino.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I heartily concur.

[@anastasiabeaverhausen8220]

I saw that film when it first came out in theaters when I was a kid. Loved it. Was a Hayley Mills fan. Also went to catholic school for 12 yrs. and was taught by nuns in habits. It was familiar territory. Based on an actual memoir, I still have my little Scholastic edition of the book.

[@teaeyedoubleguhur]

I'm surprised that I never got the Scholastic edition. I checked the hardbound copy of Life With Mary Superior out of the library repeatedly.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I remember "Scholastic" books ! My mom was great about giving me money to buy them all thru my elementary and junior high years. I specifically remember having a couple of "Encyclopedia Browns".....

[@sorceress1986]

The trouble with Angels has been a movie in my family since I was teeny, I don't know that I'd ever just write it off...

[@nyclady27]

One of my favorite movies of all time! My best friend and I saw it in it's first release in theaters! I'll watch it many more times in my life. It is a gift that keeps giving! 🎄🎁 Ida Lupino was lovely and talented in so many ways! 🙂👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@juanaltredo2974]

I discovered her as a filmmaker in the hitchhiker, one of my fave film noirs, and as a man I really lament that although she made the most out of her talent, I feel if she had lived in today's world she'd had many more opportunities to fulfill her talent, and would've made some incredible movies, because she wasn't only a brilliant filmmaker but she was a very balanced feminist but never a misandrist which is something we need in these extremist times

[@willieluncheonette5843]

What a terrific talent she was. The Hitch-Hiker is a excellent little noir she directed with an enlightened attitude towards Mexicans, something not always evident in Hollywood films of that time.

[@elijahrose2144]

Butterfly 🦋 being set free🎉

[@BlackPantherStudios]

great video 📸😊

[@tectorgorch8698]

The Hitchhiker caused me permanent brain damage -- I was about 5 or 6 when I saw it at the beloved Wilshire Theater in Fullerton CA. Thanks, Mom & Dad!

[@VintageVera]

That movie still scares me...the way William Talman used his eyes. So creepy.

[@davidburgess3882]

@@VintageVera Ironic that he played DA Hamilton Burger in "Perry Mason" TV series.

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

Nicely done...

[@thomasgladue5394]

I disagree with the one opinion about The Trouble with Angels, the narrator's take is one of appreciation for Ida's last directed film. I have watched it many times over the years, from a 16mm print in 7th grade at my Catholic grade school, to on streaming a few weeks back. As far as support for films like this, niche product is usually not supported by the audience it is intended for.

[@BelleReign1]

The 16 mm Shrine was an amazing episode.

[@normanleach5427]

Class.

[@jubalcalif9100]

With a capital "C" !

[@stevecrawford3551]

Interesting comment by the narrator… she intentionally left the ending ambiguous. I have offer wonder why some movies end that way. It’s not by chance , but by design. Rest In Peace. 😇

[@stephenscanlon9763]

It allows the viewer to make their own post movie narrative.

[@loge10]

​@@stephenscanlon9763Sadly, not typical in the current era, especially in the age of Spielberg...

[@VideoArchiveGuy]

The cynicism brought to the analysis of "The Trouble With Angels" is of course a modern ret-conning of the film. Based upon a biography written by a nun, it seems inconceivable to the narrator that Mary chose a life of serving God out of her own free will, because she saw it as a calling after seeing the empathy of many of the Sisters and of course Mother Superior. Further, Rachel wasn't abandoned, she actually felt happy for her friend's new life and she was no more "losing" her friendship with Mary than would be expected for the end of high school. Only a post-modern cynic would read the nuns' lives as serving under a "patriarchy," but that's what most critics can do because they always need to read some deeper, evil motive into everything. Truly a disappointing analysis that at least spends time discussing a wonderful film, and has long been one of my favorites. Why? It is perhaps the last Hollywood film to treat religion and Catholicism with actual reverence rather than try to make it into some type of ersatz exposé. The attitude of the critic is precisely why Hollywood would be unable to today, even if they wanted to.

[@stephenscanlon9763]

You didn't see the movie did you? And when you see a movie you just want fluff and ignore what was actually IN the movie even with those self censoring days.

[@VideoArchiveGuy]

@@stephenscanlon9763 I did, and have seen it so many times I can quote it from memory, any particular scene you like. Please tell me how honoring those who chose to serve God in a respectful way was ignoring what was in the film. As I stated, if you look up the author, she herself was a nun and based Mary's character on herself. Mary chose to become a nun of her own free will, choosing to serve God after seeing how fulfilling it was for the other Sisters in the order, from Mother Superior and Sister Liguori funeral to watching her simple kindness of leaving bread crusts for the birds on the statue. Likewise Sister Constance's admonition that the order wasn't just some club you joined, it was a commitment and a calling.

[@joefranks4235]

What movie is this guy narrating? Two girls go to a convent school and cause trouble. That's it!

[@MariaFernanda-dr7pv]

talk about JOAN CRAWFORD MORE FILM S OF JOAN

[@jillkjv3816]

First. :)

[@mileshigh1321]

How about leaving an intelligent and relevant comment instead of something the average 14 yr old does.

[@jillkjv3816]

@@mileshigh1321 How about you speak nicely to a grandma? Guess your parents failed you. Tsk tsk tsk.

[@abbynormal2628]

@@mileshigh1321 Grow up.

[@mileshigh1321]

@@abbynormal2628 Instead of comments, maybe we should all just leave numbers, maybe that would make it easier for you!

[@lillierichard2313]

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[@AnnaCookieZeman]

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[@sandybeach123]

The narrator lists off all the condescending buzz words that please certain viewers "male-dominated"..."patriarchal"....it begins to sound contrived....gotta make sure we please a certain clique of bullies, mustn't we. Gag me.

[@shelleynobleart]

Thank you for this. Gave me reasons to admire Ms. Lupino.