Move Over, Darling

Move Over, Darling (1963)

She's Married to Him... He's Married to Her... and It's Sheer Bedlam from Morning 'till Night!

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.

Date of release
1963-12-19
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (104)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Michael Gordon

Casting

  • Doris Day — Ellen Wagstaff Arden
  • James Garner — Nicholas Arden
  • Polly Bergen — Bianca Steele
  • Thelma Ritter — Grace Arden
  • Fred Clark — Mr. Codd
  • Don Knotts — Shoe Clerk
  • Elliott Reid — Dr. Herman Schlick
  • Edgar Buchanan — Judge Bryson
  • John Astin — Clyde Prokey
  • Pat Harrington Jr. — District Attorney
  • Eddie Quillan — Bellboy
  • Max Showalter — Hotel Desk Clerk

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