Move Over, Darling

Released

December 19, 1963

Runtime: 1h 43m

Move Over, Darling
EnglishComedyRomance

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 & Crew

  • Doris Day

    Doris Day

    Ellen Wagstaff Arden

  • James Garner

    James Garner

    Nicholas Arden

  • Polly Bergen

    Polly Bergen

    Bianca Steele

  • Thelma Ritter

    Thelma Ritter

    Grace Arden

  • Fred Clark

    Fred Clark

    Mr. Codd

  • Don Knotts

    Don Knotts

    Shoe Clerk

  • Elliott Reid

    Elliott Reid

    Dr. Herman Schlick

  • Edgar Buchanan

    Edgar Buchanan

    Judge Bryson

  • John Astin

    John Astin

    Clyde Prokey

  • Pat Harrington Jr.

    Pat Harrington Jr.

    District Attorney

  • Eddie Quillan

    Eddie Quillan

    Bellboy

  • Max Showalter

    Max Showalter

    Hotel Desk Clerk

  • Alvy Moore

    Alvy Moore

    Room Service Waiter

  • PL

    Pami Lee

    Jenny Arden

  • LF

    Leslie Farrell

    Didi Arden

  • Chuck Connors

    Chuck Connors

    Stephen Burkett

  • JB

    Jimmy Baya

    Doorman (uncredited)

  • Steve Carruthers

    Steve Carruthers

    Department Store Employee (uncredited)

  • Michael Gordon

    Michael Gordon

    Director

  • Jack Sher

    Jack Sher

    Screenplay

  • Hal Kanter

    Hal Kanter

    Screenplay

  • SS

    Sam Spewack

    Story

  • Leo McCarey

    Leo McCarey

    Story

  • BS

    Bella Spewack

    Story

Media

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