Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

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... See full summary »

Director:

Charles Walters

Writers:

Isobel Lennart (screenplay), Jean Kerr (book)

Stars:

Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

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

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.

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Plot Keywords:

theater | critic | play | theater critic | professor | 

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Taglines:

The Uproarious Movie From The Big Best-Seller!

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Genres:

Comedy | Family | Romance

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 June 1960 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Eramos tan felices

Filming Locations:

Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Euterpe

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Beginning her feature-film career portraying Katharine Hepburn's mother in Little Women, Spring Byington closed her movie years playing Doris Day's mother in this film.

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Goofs

When Kate is playing the song for the children in the schoolyard, her strumming of the ukulele does not match match the music.

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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 ...
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Connections

Referenced in The Killing Floor (2007)

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Soundtracks

"Que Sera Sera"
(uncredited)
Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Performed by Doris Day

User Reviews

My pet movie

"Please don't eat the daisies" is one of my favorite movies of Doris Day. In opposite of her other Screwball-Comedies she shows us in this movie her natural talent. She sings like in the most of her movies, but her song with the children is made in an excellent way. Her Leading Man David Niven is the perfect partner for the lovely Ms Day. We can also see, that she is one of the few real Hollywoods Ladies, who played with children. In ten movies she plays a mother !!! This movie kept her at the top of the Box Office after her sucess with Pillow Talk, which is the opposite to this one. Everybody will enjoy this little cut comedy, which is really more than 'just one of those films".