Move Over, Darling

Move Over, Darling

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Directed by Michael Gordon
Produced by Martin Melcher
Aaron Rosenberg
Written by Bella Spewack
Sam Spewack

Leo McCarey
Hal Kanter
Jack Sher
Starring Doris Day
James Garner
Polly Bergen
Thelma Ritter
Don Knotts
Chuck Connors
Edgar Buchanan
Studio 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) December 25, 1963 (1963-12-25)
Running time 103 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Move Over, Darling (Aka: Something's Got to Give) is a 1963 remake of the 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife that starred Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Gail Patrick. The remake stars Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen.

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Plot

Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Doris Day), a mother of two young children, was believed to be lost at sea following an airplane accident. Her husband, Nick Arden (James Garner), was one of the survivors.

After years of searching for her, he decides to move on with his life by having her declared legally dead and marrying Bianca (Polly Bergen), all on the same day. However, Ellen is alive; she is rescued and returns home that particular day. At first crestfallen, she is relieved to discover from her mother-in-law Grace (Thelma Ritter) that her (ex-) husband's honeymoon has not started yet.

Nick eventually clears things up with Bianca, but then he learns that Ellen was stranded on an island alone all those years with Stephen Burkett (Chuck Connors) and that they called each other "Adam" and "Eve".

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See also

The Tom Hanks film Cast Away has a plot similarity: the lead character is marooned on an island for several years; on his return he finds that his girlfriend has given him up for dead and has married someone else.

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