

Move Over, Darling
She's Married to Him... He's Married to Her... and It's Sheer Bedlam from Morning 'till Night!
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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- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $12.7M
- Language
- English
- island
- judge
- return
- honeymoon
- romcom
- love
- remake
- remarriage
- stranded
- presumed dead
- screwball comedy
- return from dead
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York19 Dec 1963
- TheatricalNR25 Dec 1963
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU24 Feb 1964
BrazilBR
- Theatricale 141 Jan 1964
- TVLFox Film mj.gov.br5 Jul 2001
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1115 Jul 1964
GermanyDE
- Theatrical21 Feb 1964
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Move Over, Darling was released on 19 December 1963.
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1/12/2025
"Ellen" (Doris Day) has been missing for years and even pronounced legally dead when she is returned to civilisation by the US Navy and turns up at her mother-in-law's house. "Grace" (Thelma Ritter) gets quite a surprise, bit luckily she has a thick rug o which to cushion her fall a few times before telling her that her son "Nick" (James Garner) was not going to live his life in solitude for ever and had just married…
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