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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.
Move Over, Darling: Directed by Michael Gordon. With Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter. After being lost at sea for several years, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband has remarried.
- (6.5K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Michael Gordon
- 1963-12-25
This film is a precise storyboard remake of MY FAVORITE WIFE. a successful black and white comedy screened two decades earlier. Its familiar cast personalities include Doris Day, Thelma Ritter. Polly Bergen. James Garner, Fred Clark. Don Knotts and Elliot Ried. Well done but not very inventive and too copycat for a top rating.
Box office. $2,057,000 [1] 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.
Oct 11, 2015 · The following year, it was recast with James Garner, Doris Day and Polly Bergen, retitled Move Over, Darling and released in December 1963. Many of the same sets were used. In the scene where Garner pulls Day off of Bergan, he accidently broke several of her ribs. Day didn't tell him and finished the scene.
At the hotel where they honeymooned, having seen each other in the lobby as he checked in with his new bride, Nick (James Garner) hurries to find Ellen (Doris Day), who has, on the day she was declared legally dead, returned after five years lost at sea, with no time to explain, in the remake of My Favorite Wife, Move Over, Darling 1963.
Something's Got to Give: Directed by George Cukor. With Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Tom Tryon. Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudden August 1962 death.
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