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The movie that Ellen describes to Bianca (Polly Bergen) while giving her a massage is My Favorite Wife (1940), of which this is a remake.
The film is a remake of a 1940 screwball comedy film, My Favorite Wife, with Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Gail Patrick. 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.
My Favorite Wife, is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. The picture stars Irene Dunne as a woman who, after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years and declared legally dead, returns to her [former] husband ( Cary Grant ) and children.
Enjoyable bedroom-farce, a remake of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne's "My Favorite Wife", has a colorful supporting cast, cute kids, a fine score by Lionel Newman and, of course, Day herself, shining brightly while going from happy to sad to frantic to sentimental.
A remake of the 1940 farce My Favorite Wife, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, Move Over, Darling features Garner as a man who's just about to remarry, after his wife was lost at sea five years ago.
Aug 28, 2012 · However, the tragic story of a shipwrecked sailor who comes home to find his wife remarried was remade into a comedy three times: First in 1940 as the slapstick Irene Dunne vehicle “My Favorite Wife,” then in 1962 as Marilyn Monroe’s sexy-but-unfinished film “Something’s Got To Give,” and finally in 1963 as “Move Over, Darling ...
Feb 8, 2017 · You’re My Wife and the Mother of My Children: Move Over Darling (1963) So this film is a remake of the Cary Grant and Irene Dunne screwball comedy, My Favorite Wife . Now you all know how I feel about remakes:
A remake of My Favorite Wife (1940), a screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, it was Monroe's last work, but from the beginning of its production it was disrupted by her personal troubles, and after her death on August 4, 1962, the film was abandoned. Most of its completed footage remained unseen for many years.
My Favorite Wife was a re-teaming of Grant and Dunne after their romantic comedy The Awful Truth (1937) directed by Leo McCarey. McCarey was slated to direct this one too, but a bad car accident put paid to that, so Garson Kanin was brought in.
Shipwrecked Doris Day relaxes on her paradise island in Move Over Daring. “A Doris Day classic – a remake of 1940’s My Favorite Wife – in which the seriously correct blonde stars as a woman who returns from a desert island to find that her husband, James Garner, has remarried.
