Ida Lupino

A feminist filmmaker long before the modern feminist movement.

~American Bookseller

Like one of Lupino's own films (and Lupino's own performances), Donati's book packs much into a small space. It is a gripping read.

~Audience Magazine

Lupino is doubtless the most prolific woman director ever to have worked in Hollywood.

~Barbara Sharres, The Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago

Lets an icon of women's filmmaking emerge as a full-fledged human being, social crusader, and artist.

~Kirkus Reviews

A true pioneer.... Her work is resilient, with a remarkable empathy for the fragile and heartbroken.

~Martin Scorsese, New York Times Magazine

A tough-gal actress.

~Newsweek

Donati adores his subject but doesn't shrink from showing blemishes.

~Publishers Weekly

An appreciative account of her life.

~Utne Reader

The first major biography of this great dame who helped make 'hard-boiled' an adjective not so readily affixed to an egg.

~Vanity Fair

In William Donati's masterful Ida Lupino: A Biography, the author uncovers the life and loves of a true original, who grooved to the beat of her own distinct drum. 'I'm mad they say,' Lupino once told a reporter. 'I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.'

~Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair