Something's Got to Give

Something's Got to Give is an unfinished 1962 American feature film, directed by George Cukor for 20th Century Fox and starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. A remake of My Favorite Wife (1940), a screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, it was Monroe's last work, but from the beginning its production was disrupted by her personal troubles, and after her death on August 5, 1962, the film was abandoned. Most of its completed footage remained unseen for many years.

20th Century Fox overhauled the entire production idea the following year with mostly new cast and crew and produced their My Favorite Wife remake, now entitled Move Over, Darling (1963) and starring Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen.

Despite the similar title, this film has no connection with Something's Gotta Give, a 2003 film starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton.

Plot
Ellen Arden (Monroe), a photographer and mother of two small children, has been declared legally dead, having been lost at sea in the Pacific. Her husband Nick (Dean Martin) has remarried; he and his new wife, Bianca (Cyd Charisse), are on their honeymoon when Ellen, rescued from an island where she has been stranded for five years, returns home. The family dog remembers her, but the children do not. However, they take a liking to her, and invite her to stay. Ellen assumes a foreign accent and pretends to be a woman named Ingrid Tic. Nick, flustered by the revelation that he's now married to two women, makes great effort to keep the truth from his new wife all the while trying to quash her amorous advances. Upon learning that Ellen was marooned on the island with a man, Stephen Burkett (Tom Tryon) — whom she knew as "Adam" to her "Eve" — he becomes jealous and suspicious of her fidelity. To calm his fears, Ellen enlists a meek shoe salesman (Wally Cox) to impersonate her island companion.

Cast

 * Marilyn Monroe as Ellen Wagstaff Arden
 * Dean Martin as Nicholas Arden
 * Cyd Charisse as Bianca Russell Arden
 * Tom Tryon as Stephen Burkett
 * Wally Cox as Shoe Salesman
 * Phil Silvers as Insurance Salesman
 * Steve Allen as Psychiatrist
 * John McGiver as The Judge
 * Robert Christopher Morley as Timmy Arden
 * Alexandria Heilweil as Lita Arden