Move Over Darling
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Movie Reviews of Move Over Darling
Movie 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.
Movie Review: A good situation comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a remake of "My Favorite Wife" (1940). Yet you could say that it was re-designed for Doris Day and James Garner. I would not go as far as saying that this is an improvement yet there are do many amusing scenes and characters that you can easily blur this with the original. They could not have picked a better (slimier) insurance agent than John Astin. He plays a similar character in another Doris Day movie "That Touch of Mink".
Nicholas Arden's (James Garner) first wife gets lost on an island and after five years is presumed dead. The day she is declared dead he remarries. Before he can consummate the new marriage his previous wife is found and finds out the situation.
What will he do?
What will the wives do?
What does his mother do?
What will you do?
Movie 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!Movie Review: Move Over Darling
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say Doris Day and James Garner make a great team. If the two of them are in a movie together you can guarrantee a quality movie that you will want to watch over and over again. I am so pleased to have this in my collection with my other Doris Day movies. You can't go past these classic actors for entertainment. Most modern day actors just don't compare!Movie Review: A Doris Day Fan
Summary: 5 Stars
The chemistry between Doris Day and James Garner is just as good as, if not better than, the chemistry Doris had with Hudson. This is another example of fine classic comedy filming at its best. It is funny, entertaining, and romantic. And, once again, it's all done without the insane use of profanity and the extended, over-indulgence of sex.