Ida Lupino demonstrates her different appearances in the Four Star Playhouse episode, “Face of Danger” — where she portrayed a 100-year-old woman reminiscing about the troubles of her youth in the Old West.
The episode first aired on October 13, 1955
Several of the nominees for 1957 Emmy awards: Ida Lupino, Vivian Vance, Ernie Ford, Nanette Fabray and Claire Trevor.
Lupino was nominated for “best continuing performance by an actress” for Four Star Playhouse.
Trevor was nominated for “best single performance by an actress” for Dodsworth on Producers Showcase.
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Here’s a brief clip of Ida Lupino and Franchot Tone in the “Award” episode of Four Star Playhouse, aired in 1955 — one of 19 episodes Lupino did for Four Star.
For more on Ida Lupino’s initial foray into television with this show, check out my latest essay, “The Fourth Star”: https://pmbryant.typepad.com/letyourselfgo/2023/05/the-fourth-star.html
>*I was the guest who never left and became the fourth star of *Four Star Playhouse* and loved every minute of it—and never missed directing.* >— Ida Lupino In late 1953, Ida Lupino approached a major transition in her career as Hollywood movie star-turned-independent producer and director. Lupino, at age...
March, 1955: “HOW TO GAIN WEIGHT — Movie actress Ida Lupino dons a ‘false body’ (at left) to add the appearance of an extra 100 pounds for her role as an overweight school teacher in TV's Four Star Playhouse. Miss Lupino is still her trim self without the padding as the picture at right proves.”
“CAST AS ACTRESS AND DIRECTOR are Ida Lupino and Franchot Tone in ‘Award,’ the play to be staged on Four Star Playhouse at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, over Channel 4. Miss Lupino portrays a Hollywood actress with ambitions to become a stage star. Tone portrays a Broadway director.”
“Award” was first aired on June 30, 1955.
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Ida Lupino in a scene from the Four Star Playhouse episode, “A Bag of Oranges,” aired Jan. 6, 1955. This was Lupino’s sixth episode of 19 she did for the anthology series from 1953-‘56.
“She plays the wife of a condemned man who waits in a bar near the prison and encounters a reporter who is to cover the execution”
P.M.Bryant