At first crestfallen, she is relieved to discover from her mother-in-law Grace ( Thelma Ritter) that her ("ex") husband's honeymoon has not yet started. However, Ellen is alive she is rescued and returns home that particular day. He has her declared legally dead so he can marry Bianca ( Polly Bergen), all on the same day. The couple have two young daughters, Jenny and Didi.Īfter five years of searching Nick decides it is time to move on with his life. The husband Nick Arden ( James Garner) survives the crash, but his wife Ellen Wagstaff Arden ( Doris Day) is never found and declared lost at sea. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.Īt the 21st Golden Globe Awards, Doris Day was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical but lost to Shirley MacLaine in Irma la Douce.Ī couple on an airline trip are in trouble when the plane crashes into the ocean.
Move Over, Darling was chosen as the 1964 Royal Film Performance, and had its UK premiere on 24 February 1964 at the Odeon Leicester Square in the presence of H.R.H. Only Ritter had played the same role in Something's Got to Give. The supporting cast of Move Over, Darling features Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Don Knotts, Chuck Connors, Edgar Buchanan, Pat Harrington, Jr. In between these movies, an unfinished version, entitled Something's Got to Give, began shooting in 1962, directed by George Cukor and starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. The CinemaScope picture was a remake of a 1940 screwball comedy film, My Favorite Wife, with Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Gail Patrick. Nicky's questions about her faithfulness increase when she purposefully withholds information about Stephen from him.Move Over, Darling is a 1963 American DeLuxe Color comedy film starring Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen and directed by Michael Gordon. Nicky, however, ends up with questions of his own about Ellen's faithfulness and love for him when he learns that Ellen was not all alone on that island but with a handsome man named Stephen Burkett, the two who pet nicknamed each other Adam and Eve. Nicky's inability to tell Bianca irks Ellen, who believes it is a manifestation of his love for Bianca over her. As such, he finds it difficult to tell Bianca, who is in a honeymoon amorous mood. Although he loves Ellen and wants more than anything to be with her, he has Bianca's feelings to take into consideration. Although Nicky is equally as shocked as his mother was when he sees Ellen for the first time, it places him in a difficult position. Upon arrival back home, a shocked Grace Arden, Nicky's mother, informs Ellen that Nicky just got married that morning and that she, as his true wife as opposed to Bianca being his bride, should go to Monterrey to tell Nicky she's alive. She asked the Navy not to publicize her rescue or notify Nicky as she wanted to do so herself. 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. 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. Nicky, wanting now to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when she is swept off the lifeboat she is on. 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. After being lost at sea for several years, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband has remarried.