Move Over Darling
by Michael Gordon
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Actor: Doris Day, Fred Clark, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma RitterDirector: Michael Gordon
Producer: Aaron Rosenberg
Producer: Martin Melcher
Writer: Bella Spewack
Writer: Hal Kanter
Writer: Jack Sher
Writer: Leo McCarey
Writer: Sam Spewack
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Move Over Darling
DVD Review: inferior copy
Summary: 3 Stars
This additional remake of the Grant and Dunne Classic 'My Favourite Wife', is an inferior copy. James Garner brings a spark of 'class' and true acting ability, to the film, but Doris Day is far from being an accomplished actress - in spite of a pleasant voice and a pleasing appearance and disposition.
This movie is NOT a patch on the earlier 'My Favourite Wife', starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
Re-makes sometimes work - this one didn't!
DVD Review: Move Over, Darling
Summary: 4 Stars
Move Over, Darling was the first of two pairings for Doris Day & James Garner. Move Over, Darling is easily the best of the two. It was directed by Michael Gordon, producers were Aaron Rosenberg & Martin Melcher (husband to Ms. Day). Even Terry Melcher (son & later record producer for Paul Revere & the Raiders) co-wrote the opening credits song.
The film opens with Ellen Arden (Doris Day) arriving in California on a U.S. Navy submarine. She's been missing for five years after a plane crash in the Pacific. Nick Arden (James Garner) is a lawyer who is (was) married to her. After five years he's having her declared legally dead so that he may marry Bianca Steele (Polly Bergen). Judge Bryson (Edgar Buchanan) oversees the case. He has only two scenes in the movie & he's hilarious in both.
All the incidents stem from Nick Arden's new marriage to Ms. Steele & the arrival of Mrs. Arden. Ellen does everything she can to keep Nick's marriage from being consummated. Nick still loves his first wife & would rather be with her but he doesn't know how, or isn't brave enough, to tell his second wife who he would rather be with. A lot of comical situations occur throughout the movie. The biggest stems from the fact that there was a man on the island with Ellen for the five years. Steve Burkett (Chuck Connors) was the other man & he's not anything like the man that Ellen initially describes. She gets a shoe salesman (Don Knotts) to portray the island man.
There are several bonus features included with the DVD. They are: "The Amazing Road to Move Over, Darling", "Doris Day vs. Marilyn Monroe", "A Conversation With Polly Bergen", a photo gallery & a 1911 film by D.W. Griffith from 1911 "Enoch Arden" Part 2". If the film seems familiar, it is, it's a remake of My Favorite Wife that starred Cary Grant & Irene Dunne. This was also the film that Marilyn Monroe was working on when she passed away. THAT would have been an entirely different movie.
DVD Review: One of Doris Day's Best
Summary: 5 Stars
This fantastic remake of an old Cary Grant movie about a woman who returns home after being pronounced dead is one that can be watched over and over by the whole family. It is one of Doris Day's best and James Garner makes a great partner for her in this film. There are other great supporting players, though Polly Bergen seems to be miscast. Doris's "massage" where she references the old Cary Grant movie is hilarious! A movie worth getting!DVD Review: Saw all the movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a treat! Finally getting to see the entire movie without the parts they cut out for commercials! Only saw the movie on TV old movies, so some parts of it I had never seen. It is my favorite Doris Day movie!
DVD Review: One of Day's Better Movies; Ritter shines
Summary: 5 Stars
In Move Over Darling, Doris Day escapes from her "Polly Purebread" roles in films perfected with Rock Hudson, and comes into her own as a woman who tries to reclaim what was rightfully hers, with an all star staff providing all star comedic results in a perfect farce format.
An updating of the Cary Grant-Irene Dunn film My Favorite Wife, this film also has the shadow of Marilyn Monroe's final and uncompleted movie "Something's Got to Give" (Monroe's inability to stick to a filming sequence ruined the project and her death ended all hope of salvaging the film), Move Over Darling has been regulated to an asterick on Day's well know film career, and was one of the last of 1960s comedies to make it to DVD format.
The plot is pure Hollywood. Doris plays Ellen Wagstaff Arden, who we meet immediatly after she has been rescued from a tropical Island for five years that she shared with another survivor of a ship wreck. After revealing herself to she shocked mother-in-law (played to the hilt by Themla Ritter) Doris discovers that she has two problems. The first is that just that morning her husband Nick (James Garner) has had declared legally dead so (this is the second problem) he can marry Bianca (Polly Bergen). The film follows Doris as she tries to reclaim her husband (who would prefer Ellen over Bianca any day) who just can't seem to get out the words to tell Bianca that Ellen is still alive. Also appearing in teh film at his comic best if Edgar Buchannan (sic) as the confused judge who has to sort out the whole legal mess.
Move Over Darling is solid entertainment, beautiful sets, and well acted. You should move over all those DVD's that you've been meaning to watch and pop this one in the play and enjoy these actors, all at teh top of their game.
Description of Move Over Darling
Say "I do" to "madcap comedy" (Box Office) and "exuberant farce" (Film Daily) in this feel-good romp about one groom, two wives and one delightfully daffy honeymoon! Starring Doris Day, James Garner and Polly Bergen, Move Over, Darling is "a funny, funny film!" (Hollywood Citizen News) that's the perfect union of "humor, romance and heart" (The Hollywood Reporter)!Five years after losing his first wife Ellen (Day) at sea, Nick (Garner) is finally ready to have her declared legally dead, get remarried and settle down to a peaceful second marriage! But wedded bliss becomes marital mayhem when Ellen turns up alive -- with a hilarious, hair-brained scheme to win back her husband, put a stop to the honeymoon and give first love a second chance-at happily-ever-after!
Doris Day, the perky, chaste adult star of an odd collection of winking 1960s sex comedies, takes the Irene Dunne role in this remake of the comedy classic My Favorite Wife. As the survivor of a five-year ordeal on a desert island, she returns home the very day her husband has remarried. James Garner, trading his Maverick impish humor and con man cool for a mugging performance of double takes and pratfalls, is her overjoyed husband who is too cowardly to tell his neurotic bride (Polly Bergen). All of this, naturally, leads to a ridiculously complicated plot that combines door-slamming sex farce with mistaken identities (Day poses as a Swedish masseuse) and a goofy sped-up car chase. Chuck Connors, who costars as Day's hunky, he-man island mate "Adam," leads a topnotch supporting cast that includes sassy Thelma Ritter as Garner's no-nonsense mother, Don Knotts as a nervous shoe salesman enlisted by Day to impersonate Adam, Fred Clark at his indignant best, and John Astin and Pat Harrington in early roles. Edgar Buchanan practically steals the film as a gruff, irascible judge who growls through the legal circus that forms the film's chaotic climax. The cast for the most part rises above the tepid script and bland direction and Day sings two songs. Interestingly, this remake was originally developed for Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin as the never completed Something's Got to Give. --Sean Axmaker
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