Move Over, Darling
6.9
“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.
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Cast
51 people
Doris Day
Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Known for
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Pillow Talk
James Garner
Nicholas Arden
Known for
The Notebook
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Polly Bergen
Bianca Steele
Known for
Cape Fear
Cry-Baby
Thelma Ritter
Grace Arden
Known for
Rear Window
All About Eve
Fred Clark
Mr. Codd
Known for
Sunset Boulevard
A Place in the Sun
Don Knotts
Shoe Clerk
Known for
Chicken Little
Three's Company
Elliott Reid
Dr. Herman Schlick
Known for
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Inherit the Wind
Edgar Buchanan
Judge Bryson
Known for
Shane
Ride the High Country
John Astin
Clyde Prokey
Known for
The Addams Family
Taz-Mania
Pat Harrington Jr.
District Attorney
Known for
One Day at a Time
A Garfield Christmas
Eddie Quillan
Bellboy
Known for
The Grapes of Wrath
Mutiny on the Bounty
Max Showalter
Hotel Desk Clerk
Known for
Niagara
Sixteen Candles
Michael Gordon Director · Hal Kanter Screenplay Jack Sher Screenplay
Worldwide gross $13M · Budget $3.4M · United States release December 19, 1963
Box office
Budget
$3,350,000
Worldwide gross
$12,705,882
Gross vs. budget
3.8×
Production
Arcola Pictures
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Spanish
Release dates
United States · December 19, 1963
Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
United States
December 25, 1963 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 1, 1964 · Theatrical
July 5, 2001 · TV · Fox Film mj.gov.br
Denmark
July 15, 1964 · Theatrical
Germany
February 21, 1964 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
February 24, 1964 · Theatrical
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