Move Over, Darling at BFI Southbank

Doris Day and James Garner headline a comedy about a missing, presumed dead wife who unexpectedly reappears after five years as her husband is about to remarry. If this melee of marital mistrust rings bells, that’s because it’s a remake of the Cary Grant-Irene Dunne screwball comedy My Favourite Wife. Planned as the comeback for Marilyn Monroe who died before the picture was completed, it was re-worked and re-shot with an entirely new team and is the best of Day’s final run of 60s comedies.