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Ida Lupino

 

Similarly, the character Eve in The Bigamist does not uphold the depiction of a traditional woman but rather than liberating herself comes off as more aloof than empowered. Debatably both women are not within the stereotype of the good mother or wife and therefore are feminist because they represent an alternative. Millie wants the best for her daughter but this desire turns into greed. It becomes obvious into the film that the reason she is driven to exploit her daughter, Florence's talents, as a tennis player is to live vicariously through her instead of helping Florence achieve the happiness she deserves. Not only is her morality called into question, the spectatorship will naturally not be positive in the relationship to her character. Usually audiences, especially in classic Hollywood are meant to like characters unless they are specifically given all of the elements of a villain and Millie neither fits the role of a villain but neither is she amenable. .
             In similar but perhaps not so harsh circumstances, the relationship Eve has with her husband, Harry is very distant due to the fact that she cannot bear children. Although a natural problem that couples face, the dilemma creates a rift in their relationship and she deals with this by becoming very business oriented instead of secure with Harry. On one hand, neither of these character's behavior is faulty but instead a result of being human; it cannot be viewed in either a redeeming or deleterious light because they are victims of circumstance. However, these characters, as females representations are very problematic to feminist critiques. McCredie points out.
             The feminist revival of interest in women's films that took place in the early to mid-1970s had some difficulty in placing Lupino "at first a happy find "in a convenient feminist format, especially since some of her heroines are passive and victimized, as they probably were in the "real- life they depicted.


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