The Bigamist (1953) Online
Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.
| Complete credited cast: | |||
 | Joan Fontaine | - | Eve Graham |
 | Ida Lupino | - | Phyllis Martin |
 | Edmund Gwenn | - | Mr. Jordan |
 | Edmond O'Brien | - | Harry Graham / Harrison Graham |
 | Kenneth Tobey | - | Tom Morgan, Defense Attorney |
 | Jane Darwell | - | Mrs. Connelley |
 | Peggy Maley | - | Phone Operator |
 | Lilian Fontaine | - | Miss Higgins, Landlady (as Lillian Fontaine) |
| Matt Dennis | - | Mat Dennis |
 | John Maxwell | - | Judge |
The first instance of a female star directing herself.
This is the only time Ida Lupino ever directed herself.
There are several in-jokes about Santa Claus and Kris Kringle in the film, all at the expense of co-star Edmund Gwenn who played Kringle in the film Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
During the Beverly Hills tour of movie star homes, the houses the driver says belong to Jack Benny and James Stewart are their actual homes on Roxbury Drive.
This would be the last feature film directed by Ida Lupino for more than 12 years until The Trouble with Angels (1966).
During the tour of the Hollywood stars, the driver points out the home of Edmund Gwenn, the star of Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Gwenn is in fact also in the film, playing Mr Jordan.
A public domain film, hence the numerous different variants of it, most of them not terribly good quality.
Writer-producer Collier Young was the then husband of Joan Fontaine and had previously been married to Ida Lupino.
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
Originally set up as an RKO production, it fell into difficulties when RKO pulled out, leaving the film without distribution.
This film features 4 Oscar winners: Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Edmund Gwenn and Jane Darwell.
The $20,000 Jordan says is the Graham's income would equate to about $178,000 in 2015.
The wind-up toy Eve buys in anticipation of the adoption is a Louis Marx & Co. "George the Drummer Boy" lithographed tin toy. In good working condition, it would be worth $100-200 or more in 2015.
One of two films in which Lilian Fontaine appears in support of her daughter Joan (Fontaine). (The other was the 1947 release, "ivy".)
Jane Wagner was originally set to play one of the wives but backed out at the last minute. Joan Fontaine took on the role instead.
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