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Ida Lupino Anthony Hopkins Art:21 INTERNATIONAL Poorhouse Newsletter No52 October - December IDA LUPINO 2020 A MULTIPLE TALENT ANTHONY HOPKINS Dubbed the “English Jean Harlow”, Ida's move behind the camera came in 1949. She was the first woman to star in a film she both produced and directed. ART:21 A new documentary film made Season 10 of art in on location in Hollywood, the 21st Century Malibu and Port Talbot, using looks at art making archive footage, making of in London, Beijing material, interviews with and the US-Mexico Hopkins and clips from his Borderlands best known films. 2 wichita films Ida Lupino A Multiple Talent The English/American actress, director own independent production company, The and producer, and most prominent female Filmakers, she made low budget films with filmmaker during the 1950s was born into a a social message such as Not Wanted (1949) family of entertainers. Although she wanted to about an unmarried mother, Never Fear (1949) be a writer, she enrolled in the Royal Academy about a promising young dancer stricken with of Dramatic Art to please her father. Dubbed polio, Outrage (1950) about the traumatic the “English Jean Harlow” she was discovered experience of a woman being raped and by Paramount and moved to Hollywood The Bigamist (1953) in which she also played but never became quite a star. She jokingly one of the two women while directing. She referred to herself as “the poor man’s Bette was not afraid of re-using a set in order to Davis, taking on the roles that Davis had save money or shooting on location to avoid refused. Her outstanding acting talent was pricy rentals, which in turn gave her films their however revealed in films like Raoul Walsh’s hard-won realism. And what we now cynically They Drive by Night (1940) and High Sierra regard as product placement, Ida Lupino (1941) where she played opposite Humphrey wielded subtly to keep her productions afloat. Bogart and On Dangerous Ground (1951), In 1953 she also produced and directed a film where she played a blind woman opposite noir with The Hitch-Hiker about two fishing Robert Ryan. Her move behind the camera buddies who picked up a mysterious hitchhiker came in 1949 when director Elmer Clifton during a trip to Mexico who turned out to be suffered a heart attack during the filming of a psychopathic murderer. Another first for a Not Wanted which Ida Lupino finished. She woman, who once said of herself to be “the was the first woman to star in a film she poor man's Don Siegel”. produced and directed. Having created her The most blatant example of how there was no other woman behind the camera at the time of Ida Lupino is the fact that for over 15 years, whenever there was a Directors Clips from her most important films Guild meeting, the speaker would say: “Good and rare archive footage will round off a morning, Gentlemen and Ms. Lupino”. documentary about the come back of great Having starred in more than 60 films and female creativity behind the camera, which has being credited as director in 6 she turned to been the domain of men ever since the talkies television where she made guest appearances were invented. and directed some episodes of outstanding series. She passed away at the age of 77. directed by Julia & Clara Kuperberg Contributors include the film historians Cari Beauchamp and Tony Maietta. Time permitting produced by Wichita Films the greatest fan of Ida Lupino, Martin Scorcese, running time 52' Shot in HD will also have his say. Newsletter No52 October - December 2020 wichita films Anthony Hopkins 3 in The Bounty in The Silence of the Lambs It is the year 1992 and we are present at drawing and playing the piano. After training his hands - his hardened, broken hands". the 64th Academy Awards Ceremony. "And at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Battling with a drinks problem Hopkins was the Oscar goes… to Anthony Hopkins for London he was spotted by Laurence Olivier determined to overcome, he gave up alcohol the part of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of and joined the Royal National Theatre in 1965. altogether by the end of 1975 to become a the Lambs". The highest paid British actor was Hopkins became Olivier's understudy and had Hollywood cash machine. How does he turn nominated for four further Academy Awards his break through when Olivier was struck in one great performance after the other? for his appearance in Remains of the Day with appendicitis during a 1967 production We hear of his talent to impersonate other (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The of August Strindberg's The Dance of Death. people, meticulous preparation and referring Two Popes (2019). The Welsh actor, director Olivier remembered in his Confessions of an to the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter and film producer also received the highest Actor: "A new young actor in the Company of Hopkins admitted: "I am able to play monsters accolade, the British film industry has to give, exceptional promise named Anthony Hopkins well. I understand monsters. I don´t know what it when in 2008 the British Academy of Film and was understudying me and walked away with the is. I have a sympathy with them. I can understand Television Arts bestowed on him the BAFTA part of Edgar like a cat with a mouse between what makes people tick in these darker levels". Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement, not to its teeth“. But Hopkins did not want to end Clara and Julia Kuperberg will film on mention three BAFTAS, two Emmys and the his life on stage, he craved for the big screen, location in Hollywood, Malibu and Port Cecil B. DeMille Award. Nothing predestined and his chance came with the part of Richard Talbot, use archive footage, making of material, the son of a baker from a suburb of Port the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter (1968). interviews with Hopkins and clips from his Talbot in Wales to such a career. In a 2002 With further success on stage and screen he best known films which are talked about in interview Hopkins remembered: "I was a poor eventually moved to Hollywood in 1974 but their documentary, such as The Lion in Winter learner which left me open to ridicule and gave did not forget the working class values instilled (1968), Magic (1978), The Elephant Man me an inferiority complex. I grew up absolutely in him during his childhood. He once said: (1980), The Bunker (Made for TV, Hopkins convinced I was stupid". But rather than doing "Whenever I get a feeling that I may be special playing Hitler, 1981), The Bounty (1984), well at school he immersed himself in painting, or different, I think of my father and remember Desperate Hours (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Chaplin, Dracula and Howards End (all 1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Nixon (1995), Surviving Picasso (1996), Amistad (1997), Meet Joe Black and The Mask of Zorro (1998), Titus (1999), You will meet a dark and tall Sranger (2010), Thor (2011), Hitchcock (2012), Westworld (HBO Series, 2016-18) and Two Popes (2019). directed by Julia & Clara Kuperberg produced by Wichita Films running time 60' Shot in HD top row from left: As a child, staring in Hitchcock, knighted by the Queen in 1993, as Dracula, as Macbeth bottom row from left: in Westworld, as The Elephant Man, in Silence of the Lambs, in Magic, in The Remains of the Day Newsletter No52 October - December 2020 4wichita films Love in the Afternoon An American in Paris HOLLYWOOD AND THE FRENCH Paris and the Eiffel Tower, the French Lover, rural France that looks like paradise, before representatives of what Hollywood saw as Chanel, Joe Bloggs with beret and baguette he is thrown back into the harsh reality of truly French. Later on Catherine Deneuve, and of course a 2 C.V. at every street corner. WW1. Ginette Vincendeau, a film historian Alain Delon and Isabelle Adjani made short This was Hollywood's idea of France after at King's College, London will focus on the inroads into Hollywood but the love story WWII, but the love affair between Hollywood arrival of the talkies. All of a sudden language between the two countries only got another and France goes back to the very beginnings became an issue and many films were shot boost with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and of the cinema. Renée Adorée appeared side in various language versions while Charles the award winning The Artist celebrating the by side with Buster Keaton and became a star Boyer morphed into the French Lover. Joseph area of the silent film and the golden age of The Big Parade Hollywood. with King Vidor's . Claudette Gigi Colbert was one of the highest paid actors in Contributors Ginette Vincendeau and Hollywood and garnered an Oscar in 1935 for Joseph McBride. Film clips include The Big It Happened One Night. The irresistible Charles Parade by King Vidor (1925), The Smiling Boyer starred in 80 movies from 1920 to Lieutenant by Ernst Lubitsch (1931), Design for Living by Ernst Lubitsch (1933), The Marry Casablanca Widow by Ernst Lubitsch (1934) It Happened One Night by Frank Capra (1934), Algiers by John Cromwell (1938), Ninotchka by Ernst Lubitsch (1938), Casablanca by Michael Curtiz McBride will look at the films of Ernst Lubitsch (1942), Letter from an Unknown Woman by who preferred Paris as location for many of his Max Ophüls (1948), An American in Paris by films from Love Parade (1930) to Ninotschka Vicente Minelli (1951), Daddy Long Legs by (1939).
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