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Meet Ida LeClair. She lives in the small town of Mahoosuc Mills, Maine, with her husband, Charlie. Stories? She's got a double-wide mobile home full of them! Find out what happens when the husbands go off hunting for the weekend! Hear about the amazing adventures Ida and her friends, Celeste, Rite, Betty, Dot, and Shirley, have in "the Bonneville". You've heard of Maine humor Down East? Here's Maine humor from in-state, the heart of the North Country, where the women run with the moose!

Though her acting career is well known, Ida Lupino was, until very recently, either unknown or overlooked as an influential director. One of the few female directors in Classical Hollywood, Lupino was the only woman with membership in the Directors Guild of America between 1948 and 1971. Her films were about women without power in society and engaged with highly controversial topics despite Hollywood's strict production code. Filmmaker Alexandra Seros retells the story of Ida Lupino's career, from actor to director, first in film, then in television.

Ida Lupino was a trail-blazer. Not only was she one of the most vibrant Hollywood actresses of the 1940s and 1950s, but she was also only the second woman to become a member of the Director's Guild. Michael B. Druxman's one-woman play, Ida: The Last Lupino, joins Ida in 1983 when she is living alone in her decaying Brentwood home as a virtual hermit, lamenting the break-up of her marriage with Howard Duff. Ida: The Last Lupino is a vivid, often witty, portrait of a woman who conquered a man's world.