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Private Hell 36 (Filmakers) is a family picture-in a peculiarly Hollywoodsy sense. The romantic leads, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff, are Mr. & Mrs. in private life, but in the picture they make love to different people. Furthermore, the picture was produced by Collier Young, Ida's next-to-last husband and still her partner in Filmakers. Inc. This perhaps partly explains why Steve Cochran, who has never been married to Actress Lupino, keeps darting uneasy glances over his shoulder while he bounces her around on the studio couch...
...detective sergeant who makes nickels and dimes, Steve has a hard time keeping up with Ida, who has a way of demanding folding money. So when Steve catches up with 300 stolen Gs, he turns in only about 226. The balance is just enough to buy him a slab in the morgue, but before they put him on it, he and Ida, as cop and suspect, have some amusing repartee-for-two (He, menacingly: "What did you do [with that man] for that money?" She, innocently: "I sang Smoke Gets in Your Eyes five times...
...filling George Raft's hairpiece; and Actress Lupino, as is to be expected from a member of one of the oldest families in the British theater, flounces through her part with the sad little flourish of a hat-check girl in a customer's mink. And Ida can flounce with a verve that would have delighted Grandpa Lupino, known as "Old George," who held the 19th century record for successive toe spins...
Change Partners. In Albuquerque, Ida Gutierrez Trujillo, mother of eight, filed a $15,000 alienation-of-affections suit against Dance Teacher Elsie Ryan Trujillo, charged that Elsie stole the love of Acquiles Trujillo by her demonstrations of the "hula-hula, hoochy-coochy, mambo and samba...
Among Albright's most famous works to date are a phosphorescently rotten-looking woman in underwear called Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and a moldy door called That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do. "I just can't seem to paint nice things," he muses. "I've tried but it doesn't work. Once I designed a Christmas card and got a prize for it but no royalties. I think the only copies sold were those bought myself. It was a stained glass window-very dirty and dusty. Looked...