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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

112 min  -  Comedy | Family | Romance  -   2 June 1960 (West Germany)
6.3
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Drama critic Larry McKay, his wife Kay, and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country... See full summary »

Director:

Charles Walters

Writers:

Isobel Lennart (screenplay), Jean Kerr (book)
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Doris Day ...
Kate Robinson Mackay
David Niven ...
Laurence Mackay
Janis Paige ...
Deborah Vaughn
Spring Byington Spring Byington ...
Suzie Robinson
Richard Haydn Richard Haydn ...
Alfred North
Patsy Kelly Patsy Kelly ...
Maggie
Jack Weston ...
Joe Positano
John Harding John Harding ...
Reverend Norman McQuarry
Margaret Lindsay ...
Mona James
Carmen Phillips ...
Mary Smith
Mary Patton Mary Patton ...
Mrs. Hunter
Charles Herbert Charles Herbert ...
David Mackay
Stanley Livingston ...
Gabriel MacKay
Flip Mark Flip Mark ...
George MacKay
Baby Gellert Baby Gellert ...
Adam McKay
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Storyline

Drama critic Larry McKay, his wife Kay, and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kay settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York. Kay soon begins to question Larry's fidelity when he mentions a flirtatious encounter with Broadway star Deborah Vaughn. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>  

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Plot Keywords:

Theater | Critic | Housewife | Professor | Theater Critic  | See more »

Taglines:

The Uproarious Movie From The Big Best-Seller!

Genres:

Comedy | Family | Romance

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(West Germany) See more »

Also Known As:

Älkää syökö päivänkakkaroita See more »

Box Office

Gross:

$11,100,000 (USA)
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Did You Know?

Trivia

After Doris Day and Janis Paige first had worked together in Romance on the High Seas, Miss Paige had triumphed on Broadway as the feisty union official, Babe Williams, in the Tony Award-winning musical of 1954, "The Pajama Game." When Warner Bros., the former home lot of Janis and Doris, recast Babe Williams for the delightful 1957 film version, Babe then turned into - Doris Day! See more »

Goofs

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Kate is playing the song for the children in the schoolyard, her strumming of the ukulele does not match match the music. See more »

Quotes

Alfred North: [Quoting from Larry Mackay's drama review, in which Mackay has "pre-reviewed" his wife's upcoming play] He says the Hooton Players are charming - particularly their leading lady - but they're wasting time on a twenty-year old play written by a man with no talent for writing plays - namely, himself.
Alfred North: [Now reading directly from Mackay's article] "It was rejected by every Broadway producer in terms so outraged, that I determined never to write another one, thus saving myself years of futile effort and frustration."
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Connections

Featured in What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar (2009) See more »

Soundtracks

"PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES"
Lyrics and Music by Joe Lubin
Performed by Doris Day (uncredited) See more »