Move Over, Darling
US Release Date: 19 December 1963
Doris Day — Ellen Wagstaff Arden (aka Eva Swensen and Eve)
James Garner — Nicholas ‘Nick’/’Nicky’ Arden
Polly Bergen — Bianca Steele Arden
Thelma Ritter — Grace Arden
Fred Clark — Mr. Codd, the Hotel Manager
Chuck Connor — Stephen Burkett, aka Adam
This is the remake of the 1940’s comedy 'My Favorite Wife' which was intended for blonde siren Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was never to finish the film and the role was later re-written for Doris. The story begins five years after Nicholas Arden’s wife disappeared and is declared legally dead. He then remarries and sets off to Monteray with his new wife Bianca. The same morning though the “missing” wife arrives home after being rescued by the Navy from a desert island. Two wives + one husband – guarantees for a lot of laughs along the way as this madcap adventure unfolds. The “suggestive” title-tune to this slapstick movie became Doris’s biggest selling European single of the 1960s.
Director(s): Michael Gordon
Producer(s): Aaron Rosenberg & Martin Melcher
Studio: 20th Century Fox (USA)
Romance/Comedy
Colour (DeLuxe Color-CinemaScope)
Alternate Title: This film was also known as Something’s Gotta Give (Working
Title)