The Bigamist - Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine

1953 directed by Ida Lupino starring Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn and Edmond O'Brien. Producer/Screenwriter Collier Young was married to Fontaine at the time and had previously been married to Lupino, (Hollywood Swingers?). The Bigamist is the first American feature film made in the sound era in which the female star of a film directed herself, and so it’s ground-breaking.

Edmond O'Brien and Joan Fontaine want to adopt a child, as Eve is infertile, (unless it’s Edmund’s fault and those little buggers aren’t doing their job). The adoption agent informs them that he has to first check them out to make sure they aren’t too weird, which “worries” O’Brien, as he’s been up to something, the dirty fellow.