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Mary Ann Anderson was a friend and business manager to the actress and film director, Ida Lupino, for over a decade. She has also contributed to two books on the star, and has now written a biography, Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera, featuring rare photos, press clippings, and transcribed interviews.

Born in London in 1918, Ida was the daughter of the writer and music hall star, Stanley Lupino.

She made her screen début aged 13, and flew to Hollywood soon after, stealing the show in Rouben Mamoulian’s The Gay Desperado (1936) and The Light That Failed (1939).

Early in her career, columnist Hedda Hopper advised her: ‘If you want to become a real actress, the first thing is to let your eyebrows grow, get your hair back to its natural shade, and scrub all that goo off your face.

Otherwise, you’ll be just another starlet who fell by the wayside.’

Lupino’s first marriage, to actor Louis Hayward, collapsed amid the trauma he suffered while serving in the air force d