I think it amazing Ida Lupino got to put together a production company and make as many movies as she did, but I also think it a shame she didn't get to make more, darnit.
I wish I had a good biography of her. She co-founded the company with her then-husband Collier Young, but the it survived the breakup of their marriage; she made her most famous film, The Hitch-Hiker (1953), two years after they'd divorced and at least two of their succeeding productions—The Bigamist (1953) and Private Hell 36 (1954)—involved their respective other partners, so I have trouble imagining that the company shuttered in 1955 due to incompatibility. She kept on directing in TV, but she didn't direct another feature until 1965 and then she was done. "Brief but influential" is better than "blip on the radar," but "veteran director Ida Lupino" would have been even better.
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I wish I had a good biography of her. She co-founded the company with her then-husband Collier Young, but the it survived the breakup of their marriage; she made her most famous film, The Hitch-Hiker (1953), two years after they'd divorced and at least two of their succeeding productions—The Bigamist (1953) and Private Hell 36 (1954)—involved their respective other partners, so I have trouble imagining that the company shuttered in 1955 due to incompatibility. She kept on directing in TV, but she didn't direct another feature until 1965 and then she was done. "Brief but influential" is better than "blip on the radar," but "veteran director Ida Lupino" would have been even better.