The Bigamist

Amelie Hastie’s study of The Bigamist (1953)directed by and starring Ida Lupino, shows how the film combines elements of noir and melodrama to tell the story of salesman Harry Graham’s "double life." Hastie considers the movie as a piece of independent cinema at a time when the Hollywood studio system was beginning to dissolve, as a film about gender and marriage in the context of gender relations in post-War America, and in terms of Lupino’s personal and professional history.