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6.5/10 • 87

1963-12-191h 43m

ComedyRomance

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.

Directors
Michael Gordon
Editors
Robert L. Simpson

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  1. Doris Day

    Doris Day

    Ellen Wagstaff Arden

  2. James Garner

    James Garner

    Nicholas Arden

  3. Polly Bergen

    Polly Bergen

    Bianca Steele

  4. Thelma Ritter

    Thelma Ritter

    Grace Arden

  5. Fred Clark

    Fred Clark

    Mr. Codd

  6. Don Knotts

    Don Knotts

    Shoe Clerk

  7. Elliott Reid

    Elliott Reid

    Dr. Herman Schlick

  8. Edgar Buchanan

    Edgar Buchanan

    Judge Bryson

  9. John Astin

    John Astin

    Clyde Prokey

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Jan 12, 2025

6/10

"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 "Bianca" (Polly Bergen). What's more, he has taken her for their honeymoon to the same hotel they went to first time round. "Ellen" is determined to get her man back and so sets off to track them down. Needless to say he gets quite a shock when she shows up, and being legally married to wife number two creates quite a quandary for everyone, especially hotel manager "Codd" (Fred Clark) who probably has the best part here and isn't used to his elite establishment having wife-juggling competitions in it's suites. Calamities galore now ensue as he has to walk quite a tightrope. Does he love "Ellen"? Does she love him? Does he love "Bianca"? She him? Is "Ellen" even alive? Is he allowed to love her? Is he a bigamist? It's quite a fun romp at the start, but once we've laid the foundations it gets a bit repetitive and the humour made me cringe more than laugh after a while. There's some chemistry between Garner and Bergen but somehow Day and he didn't click the way she did with Rock Hudson in, say, "Pillow Talk" (1959). It's still all watchable enough and the denouement with Edgar Buchanan's flabbergasted "Judge Bryson" is quite entertaining.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
$12,705,882.00
Keywords
islandjudgereturnhoneymoonromcomlovestrandedscrewball comedycomedy of remarriage