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. Nicky, 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 Monterey 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 Nicky as she wants to do so herself. Upon arrival back home, a shocked Grace Arden (Nicky's mother) informs Ellen that Nicky just got remarried ...

Move Over, Darling
1963 Theatrical poster
Directed by	Michael Gordon
Produced by	Martin Melcher Aaron Rosenberg
Written by	Bella Spewack Sam Spewack Leo McCarey Hal Kanter Jack Sher
Starring	Doris Day James Garner Polly Bergen Thelma Ritter Don Knotts Chuck Connors Edgar Buchanan
Music by	Lionel Newman
Cinematography	Daniel L. Fapp
Edited by	Robert L. Simpson
Production company	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 25, 1963
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English