Adoption agent Mr. Jordan advises the couple that, as a matter of routine, he needs to investigate their backgrounds and current lifestyle thoroughly.

He visits the address listed in the phone book for a "Harrison Graham" and there finds Harry, with a different wife—and a baby.

Upon learning of Eve's infertility, Harry suggested that she join him in his business as a means of coping with her disappointment.

While staying in a hotel in L.A., Harry met an interesting woman named Phyllis, on a bus tour of Hollywood movie stars' homes.

Not wanting to fall in love, Phyllis had not allowed Harry to share with her anything about his background and thus remained ignorant of his marriage.

[4] The plot cheekily mines aspects of Lupino’s own private life (sharing same scriptwriting husband with Fontaine; an extramarital pregnancy with Howard Duff) and showcases the Hollywood homes of some of her friends on a see-the-stars bus-tour.

Chris Fujiwara calls it a "haunting film" which is "one of several out-of-nowhere masterpieces" to be directed by Lupino.

He particularly praises the final courtroom scene, which he considers to be "shattering", with a "combination of ambiguity and intensity that recalls both Carl Dreyer and Nicholas Ray".

[5] When the two female leads exchange glances with each other in court they both knew what it meant to be married to the same man in real life - an inside joke not lost on Hollywood.

[6] Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner remark that The Bigamist is "not a sensationalized rendering of a potentially sordid subject, but a very human story of a man (Edmond O'Brien) tangled between two women".