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Move Over, Darling is a remake of a remake, but the new version doesn't half make it. In 1940 it was My Favorite Wife, with Irene Dunne and Gary Grant; last year it was Something's Got to Give, the picture Marilyn Monroe never finished. Now it has been tailored for Doris Day, who just can't bring herself to attempt MM's celebrated nude bathing scene. DD just drives a Chrysler convertible through an automatic car wash and lets it go at that...
...girls-smoothly fuselaged, four-motored, flaps up, rubber-cushioned and sex-powered. Goddess after sleek goddess was projected into the skies, from the 1920s' Mae Murray of the bee-stung lips, the memory of whom is still enough to make old men tumble from rooming house porches, to Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's last legend of sex. Fighting men in training for Cassino and Saipan were supplied with endless photos of film Aphrodites-Jane Russell in the hay; Rita Hayworth in a negligee; Betty Grable wearing high heels, an ankle bracelet, and a one-piece bathing suit; Lana Turner...
...shame that four fine performances had to be wasted on such a play. Marilyn Chris is delightfully bouncy as Nancy, but there's only so much she can do with her lines. Alex Wipf, as Tolen, jumps out of windows neatly, and Alex Canaan is competent as the bumbling schoolteacher...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:20 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand in Let's Make Love. Color...
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The second part of a documentary on the love goddesses, including Rita Hay worth, Ava Gardner, Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Liz Taylor...