Fine performers were happy to speak her lines, among them Agnes Moorehead, Ida Lupino and Orson Welles.

ECONOMIST: Lucille Fletcher

This rendition of "Ida Lupino, " recorded in 1965 and included on the Paul Bley Trio's newly reissued Closer, is darkly winsome.

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Filming on location in California, Lupino turns the potentially maudlin material into a searing, deep, trenchantly mature study in the dissolution of a personality.

NEWYORKER: The Young Lovers