Edited sentence: Despite having an excellent screen presence and above-average acting ability, Ida so often had to settle for 'B' movie material, although it was almost impossible for her not to lift the movie with her mesmersing performances.During her Warner years, Ida was often left accepting roles her fellow Warner Brothers star, Bette Davis, had turned down.It remains a great shame for her fans that Ida was never allowed to truly express her radiant acting talent.There is no doubt that given greater roles she would have risen to the levels of Bette Davis and the other 'A' listers, and it could be argued that her fruitless and frustrating affair with the strange Howard Hughes, did nothing for her career, and even may have harmed it