Move Over, Darling
1963, Film, 103 min, Comedy, Romance, English, United States, MoviePedia score 67
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.
Directed by Michael Gordon
Cast
- Doris Day as Ellen Wagstaff Arden
- James Garner as Nicholas Arden
- Polly Bergen as Bianca Steele Arden
- Thelma Ritter as Grace Arden
- Fred Clark as Mr. Codd
- Don Knotts as Shoe Clerk
- Elliott Reid as Dr. Herman Schlick
- Edgar Buchanan as Judge Bryson
- John Astin as Clyde Prokey
- Pat Harrington Jr. as District Attorney
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