Move Over, Darling

Release Date: 1963-12-19

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.7 / 10

Cast

Doris Day

as Ellen Wagstaff Arden

James Garner

as Nicholas Arden

Polly Bergen

as Bianca Steele

Thelma Ritter

as Grace Arden

Fred Clark

as Mr. Codd

Crew

Michael Gordon - Director
Hal Kanter - Screenplay
Jack Sher - Screenplay
Bella Spewack - Story
Leo McCarey - Story

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

"Ellen" (Doris Day) has been missing for years and even pronounced legally dead when she is returned to civilisation by the US Navy and turns up at her mother-in-law's house. "Grace" (Thelma Ritter) g...