What happens at the end of Move Over Darling?

After five years of searching Nick decides it is time to move on with his life. He has her declared legally dead so he can marry Bianca (Polly Bergen), all on the same day. However, Ellen is alive; she is rescued and returns home that particular day.

Who wrote Move Over Darling song?

Joe Lubin
Terry Melcher
Move Over Darling/Composers

What movie did Doris Day replace Marilyn Monroe?

Move Over Darling
1957 publicity photo of Doris Day. I didn’t know that Monroe’s unfinished film, Something’s Got To Give, was rewritten after Monroe’s death in 1962 as Move Over Darling for Doris Day and James Garner. Monroe actually had been fired from the movie a month before she died of a drug overdose at 36.

Is Move Over Darling a remake?

A remake of the 1940 farce My Favorite Wife, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, Move Over, Darling features Garner as a man who’s just about to remarry, after his wife was lost at sea five years ago.

How did James Garner break Doris days ribs?

Doris Day proved what a trouper she truly was when James Garner accidentally cracked 2 of her ribs (during the massage scene, when he pulls her off Polly Bergen). Garner wasn’t even aware that Day was injured until the next day, when he felt the bandage while putting his arms around her.

How many versions is my favorite wife?

However, the tragic story of a shipwrecked sailor who comes home to find his wife remarried was remade into a comedy three times: First in 1940 as the slapstick Irene Dunne vehicle “My Favorite Wife,” then in 1962 as Marilyn Monroe’s sexy-but-unfinished film “Something’s Got To Give,” and finally in 1963 as “Move Over.

How did James Garner break Doris Day’s ribs?

Doris Day proved what a trouper she truly was when James Garner accidentally cracked 2 of her ribs (during the massage scene, when he pulls her off Polly Bergen).

How old was Doris Day when she died?

97 years (1922–2019)Doris Day / Age at death

Why was Marilyn Monroe fired from movie?

In June, just a few days after Monroe’s 36th birthday, she was fired for “spectacular absenteeism”, and sued by Fox for $750,000 for “wilful violation of contract”. “Dear George,” wrote Monroe in a telegram to Cukor, “please forgive me, it was not my doing. I had so looked forward to working with you.”

Where was Move Over Darling filmed?

Mugu Rock on the Pacific Coast Highway near Oxnard. The fictional “Monterey Inn” where Garner goes for his honeymoon. After Garner learns that his first wife is still alive, he thinks up an excuse to head back home to Los Angeles.

Who was Doris Day’s favorite co-star?

She would never actually designate someone as her favorite singing co-star, because she’d figure that saying something like that might disrespect those not chosen. But one thing is certain — for a while in the early Fifties she certainly had something special going on with Gordon MacRae.