Yes she was. I had a serious case to teen-age lust for Ida as a young movie-goer. She had a mysterious and “sultry” quality to use Steyn’s descriptive.
I always thought that she was smarter than the women she portrayed on the screen.
I was thinking a lot about Ida Lupino after the 2016 election. Wondering if sooner or later Hillary Clinton would blame the doors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_7q1Y08kOo
Speaking of the Doors, the “killer on the road” from “Riders on the Storm” was the real life character on whom the Hitch-hiker was based.
