The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

Clifton Webb had become a major movie star after his "Mr. Belvedere" character scored in two films. He'd spent many years on the stage and done several smaller roles that always delighted, but the prissy genius established himself in the public's mind as a charming, albeit stiff, person. He was the perfect candidate to play the title role of an 1890s bigamist who blithely goes through life siring 17 children in two separate households. Coburn is the patriarch of a sausage-making family with facilities in two Pennsylvania cities, Harrisburg and Philadelphia. His son, Webb, must spend alternate months in each city and has been doing that for two decades. His Harrisbu...