To celebrate Polly Bergen’s film career I watched Move Over Darling. Polly plays a woman engaged James Garner. They are in a courtroom where Garner is declaring his first wife dead so they can marry. She is wearing a noisy bracelet that bothers the judge. After they marry they go on their honeymoon. At the hotel her groom starts acting very strange. What she doesn’t know is the first wife, Doris Day is back after being stranded on an island for 5 years. At the hotel Polly tries to seduce Garner with lingerie and champagne, but he keeps leaving the hotel room. When he does come back he is wrapped in bandages and has a bad back and cannot move.
The next day they go to their home. Garner’s mother, Thelma Ritter, hires a Swedish nurse, Doris Day to take care of him. Polly consults her psychoanalyst about her new husbands strange behavior. She treats him like a father. While the man is there Garner is arrested for bigamy, after a warrant by his mother and the truth comes out.
In court Polly wants an annulment and has her analyst “her dearest friend” is there for support. When the judge annuls the “kiss less bride” she goes to her analyst and watches the rest of the action from the gallery.
Polly is very well accessorized in the film. She has scarves, bracelets, pins, hats and necklaces. She plays the character very light and breezy.
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