Something's Got to Give

Something's Got to Give
UK VHS cover
Directed byGeorge Cukor
Screenplay byNunnally Johnson
Walter Bernstein
Based onMy Favorite Wife
by Bella Spewack
Samuel Spewack
Leo McCarey
Produced byHenry T. Weinstein
StarringMarilyn Monroe
Dean Martin
Cyd Charisse
Tom Tryon
Phil Silvers
CinematographyFranz Planer
Leo Tover
Edited byTori Rodman
Music byJohnny Mercer
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Running time
37 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Something's Got to Give is an unfinished American feature film shot in 1962, 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 of its production it was disrupted by her personal troubles, and after her death on August 4, 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, retitled Move Over, Darling (1963) and starring Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen.