Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Directing | Michael Gordon | Director |
Writing | Hal Kanter | Screenplay |
Writing | Jack Sher | Screenplay |
Writing | Bella Spewack | Story |
Writing | Leo McCarey | Story |
Writing | Sam Spewack | Story |
Art | Paul S. Fox | Set Decoration |
Production | Martin Melcher | Producer |
Art | Hilyard M. Brown | Art Direction |
Sound | Lionel Newman | Original Music Composer |
Costume & Make-Up | Moss Mabry | Costume Design |
Camera | Daniel L. Fapp | Director of Photography |
Art | Walter M. Scott | Set Decoration |
Editing | Robert L. Simpson | Editor |
Art | Jack Martin Smith | Art Direction |
Production | Aaron Rosenberg | Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Margaret Donovan | Hair Supervisor |
Costume & Make-Up | Ben Nye | Makeup Artist |
Sound | Warren Barker | Orchestrator |
Directing | Ad Schaumer | Assistant Director |
Sound | Elmer Raguse | Sound |
Sound | Hal Kanter | Songs |
Crew | Emil Kosa Jr. | Special Effects |
Sound | Terry Melcher | Songs |
Costume & Make-Up | George Masters | Hairstylist |
Crew | L.B. Abbott | Special Effects |
Costume & Make-Up | Barbara Lampson | Hair Supervisor |
Sound | Joe Lubin | Songs |
Sound | Arthur Morton | Orchestrator |
Sound | Alfred Bruzlin | Sound |
Writing | Bella Spewack | Original Film Writer |
Writing | Sam Spewack | Original Film Writer |
Production | Gaston Glass | Unit Production Manager |
Art | Glenn "Skippy" Delfino | Props |
Sound | Alfred Bruzlin | Sound Effects Editor |
Crew | Loren Janes | Stunt Double |
Lighting | Jack Brown | Gaffer |
Camera | Walter Fitchman | Grip |
Camera | James Knott | Camera Operator |
Camera | James Mitchell | Still Photographer |
Costume & Make-Up | Marjorie Plecher | Wardrobe Master |
Costume & Make-Up | Mickey Sherrard | Wardrobe Master |
Crew | Carl Shain | Dialogue Coach |
Directing | Dolores Rubin | Script Supervisor |
Sound | Lionel Newman | Conductor |