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January 1957 - September 1958 / CBS
As a film actress, Ida Lupino was known as the "Queen of the B's" and "the poor man's Bette Davis". But she was much more than that and she wanted creative control to shape her own film projects to prove it. This was at a time when only a couple of women had ever directed a motion picture and few women were taken seriously at all in the business.
While continuing to play the sultry roles the studios offered her, Lupino began writing, producing, directing and starring in films for her own production company in 1948. These noir films are well-regarded today, tackling issues that Hollywood wouldn't - like unwed mothers and rape.
In
1951, Ida Lupino married her co-star (from 1949's 'Woman in Hiding') Howard
Duff. The next year she embarked on a new career in the fledgeling television
industry, at first as an actress on dramatic anthology programs like 'Four
Star Theater'.
By 1955, Lupino was directing TV series episodes, eventually directing dozens of programs over the next fifteen years - shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Donna Reed Show, Gilligan's Island, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables and The Fugitive.
In
1957, Lupino stopped making movies and teamed with her husband Howard
Duff to star in a novel sitcom, Mr. Adams
and Eve, the everyday story of a movie star couple living in Beverly
Hills. Lupino wanted the show to have a ring of truth to it, exagerated
slightly for comic effect.
The result was a hilarious and stylish sitcom, a wonderful send-up of Hollywood in the Fifties - that golden time when women were are dolled up with no place to go.
'Howard
Adams' and his wife 'Eve Drake' are sheltered celebrities, and the show
follows their awkward attempts to relate to real life as they see it -
dealing with agents, outlandish productions, directors and studio heads.
The supporting cast featured Hayden Rorke
('I Dream Of Jeannie') as their manager, Alan Reed ('The Flintstones')
as the studio head and Olive Carey as sassy live-in maid Elsie.
Olive
Carey was excellent in her role as the sarcastic live-in housekeeper
who ran the Drake household. In real life, Olive w