In the episode "The Twilight Zone" "Sixteen Millimeter Sanctuary" (October 12, 1959), Ida Lupino is played by Barbara Jeanan Trenton, Movieevnik of the type of Normond whose famous days are behind her. She spends his days in Owingda in self -pity, drinking alcohol and watching 16 mm rolls of her old performances. Her old friends of show business are either retired or dead, and she relys that she can no longer land glamorous leading roles. She is offered a role as Inuenu's young mother, but she refuses to accept how old she is. The episode ends with Barbara locking in her projection room, wishing you deeply that life can be as wonderful as it was 30 years ago. Her desire is realized. That magical, the body is chanted through her 16mm film screen, where she, and all her friends, are youthful forever.

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"Sixteen Millimeter Sanctuary" was only the first time Ida Lupino has been involved in the "twilight zone". Lupino, a fruitful director, also used the well -known episode "Masks" (March 20, 1964). It was the episode in which the dying millionaire named Asonieson Foster (Robert Keith) called his four greedy relatives in his home playing a game. Asoneyson knows that the quartet is just waiting to die so they can inherit his happiness, and he faces them. He says they can have his money as long as they wear theater masks all night. The masks, he says, represent their weak inner character. One is brutal, another weak, etc. In the end, the guests of the guests were mutated under the masks to suit what they look externally. It is a well-used episode that regularly makes the top-10 lists.

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Due to these two episodes, Ida Lupino has several differences in the history "Twilight Zone".

Lupino, like her "Twilight Zone" colleague on the screen, became a starvet in the 1930s, starring in many films a year as a young leading lady. She appeared in dozens of films during the 1930s and 1940s, becoming one of the more reliable leading actresses in Hollywood. In 1949, Lupino co-raised his first feature, a pregnancy drama called "Not Loved". Instead, she did not get credit (her co-director, Elmer Clifton instead), but the experience led to further directing of the jobs during the 1950s. She used Heath Hiker in 1953 and the "Bigamist" the same year.

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In 1958 She will continue to direct the episodes of "Riflemen", "Giligan Island" (yes, seriously)And "amazed". Her film career continued until 1966, when the "problem with the angels", starring Haley Mills, succeeded. Her directorial style was naturalist and, in many cases, a documentary-like, a welcome departure from much more intense, stylized styles of films from the 1950s. Lupino continued to act during her directing career and made TV and film performances until the end of the 1970s. She appeared in an episode of "Charlie Angels" in 1977 and in the 1978 film "My Boys Are Good Boys". Lupino, as can be assumed, often expressed frustration that more women were not engaged in directing in Hollywood.

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We may ask ourselves whether the creator/writer/storyteller/storyteller of the Twilight Zone has once directed an episode, but maybe surprisingly, he doesn't.

Some of the actors of the "Dusk Zone" will become filmmakers (For example, Robert Redford), and some of the directors have made some starring in other projects (TV Director Abner Bieberman, David Green and David Butler have all done some), but none of them have tackled double duty, acting and directing the "twilight zone". That difference belongs only to Lupino and Lupino. Credit where it is owed.