Move Over Darling
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Movie Reviews of Move Over Darling
Movie Review: Love it
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Doris Day movies and this one is one of my favorites. Always good to make me laugh.Movie Review: I Love It.
Summary: 5 Stars
I wasn't a James Garner fan until I saw this movie for the first time. Now I am.Movie Review: the long awaited dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie since I was a toddler. It has wonderful quality & packaging.Movie Review: Delightful Doris Day/James Garner romantic comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
MOVE OVER, DARLING (1963) offers delightful romantic comedy fun for fans of Doris Day and James Garner. This color and CinemaScope remake of the Irene Dunne-Cary Grant MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940) is so close to the B&W original that WIFE's writers get screenplay credit. DARLING is about a man (Garner) marrying his second wife (Polly Bergen) and honeymooning in a fancy Monterey hotel when his first wife (Day) shows up alive after a several year's absence. So we have a screwball comedy treatment of bigamy, with Bergen in suite C wondering why Garner keeps going to Doris in suite A or down to the hotel lobby for an all evening shave..
Whole scenes here are duplicated in WIFE, sometimes with the same dialogue. But I like DARLING more because it adds a wild car chase and a hilarious scene with Doris going in an open convertible through a carwash. And the supporting cast here is spectacular: Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Don Knotts, John Astin, Edgar Buchanan as the Judge, Chuck Connors as hunky "Adam", the list goes on. All are wonderful. WIFE cannot begin to match them, despite a good script.
MOVE OVER, DARLING is not a musical. There are no songs. But this was the 1960's, when Doris was making romantic comedies with (ironically) Cary Grant or James Garner, and not musicals. This started out as a vehicle called SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, with Marilyn Monroe, and was left unfinished with Marilyn's tragic death in 1962. It was revamped a year later into DARLING with Day and Garner and Bergen. Complicating matters is that MY FAVORITE WIFE is itself a remake of the D. W. Griffith silent drama, ENOCH ARDEN (1911), based on the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson! That version plays complete at 35 minutes as a wonderful bonus with DARLING; it has been supplied from the Library of Congress.
Besides all that exists of ENOCH ARDEN, liberal bonuses with MOVE OVER, DARLING include a behind-the-scenes filmmaking documentary, a Marilyn vs. Doris featurette, and a welcome chat with a still-beautiful Polly Bergen. It's not a masterpiece, but still one of Doris Day's most enjoyable films. Love that carwash scene and Don Knotts playing a shoe salesman sex symbol!
Movie 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.