This is the only Looney Tunes short from the classic era when someone other than Mel Blanc provided Bugs Bunny's voice (Daws Butler did his voice in two scenes, one where he played Groucho Marx, the other where he played Ed Norton from The Honeymooners). The reason for this is, Mel Blanc never considered celebrity impressions his strong point, so they were handed to Daws Butler instead.
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We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is The Bigamist (1953), Ida Lupino's nearly forgotten film-noir thriller starring Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino (as in 'nobody fucks with Ida Lupino',) Edmund Gwenn and Edmond O'Brien. Ida Lupino became the first woman to star in the first Hollywood sound feature that she was the director. The Bigamist is renowned also for its behind-the-scenes relationships. The film’s producer and screenwriter, Collier Young, was Lupino’s ex-husband, and at the time of filming was married to Fontaine (besides the fact that Lupino had an out of wedlock child with actor Howard Duff while married to Collier Young.) The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this classic, The Bigamist.
After The Bigamist, Lupino’s directing career continued mainly on television, with the exception of the last theatrical film (and only comedy) she ever directed The Trouble with Angels in 1966. (Much of Lupino’s work for the small screen also revealed a flair for the macabre, particularly in the episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, and The Twilight Zone that she directed.)
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