Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
- Starring:
- Doris Day, David Niven, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
- Category:
- Comedy
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In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four overactive kids in a wildly challenging family. David Niven co-stars with Doris Day as Lawrence and Kate Mackay, distinctive parents struggling with home, life, and family. Lawrence opts for leaving his job teaching at Columbia University in New York for a post as a drama critic for a Gotham newspaper, bringing new problems to the pile the family already owns. First, they are forced to move out -- far out -- to the countryside with their brood and canine. And next, while Kate handles home, hearth, and hellions, Lawrence proceeds to alienate one of his best friends with a shattering review. That unhappy beginning to his new career also brings in one of the actresses damaged by his cutting remarks (Janis Paige), who wreaks her own form of havoc on poor Lawrence. In the meantime, Day gets to sing some songs which add to the light-hearted attitude of it all. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 111 mins
Complete Cast:
- Doris Day - Kate Mackay
- Janis Paige - Deborah Vaughn
- Richard Haydn - Alfred North
- Jack Weston - Joe Positano
- Margaret Lindsay - Mona James
- Stanley Livingston - Gabriel MacKay
- Richard Collier - Salesman
- Burt Douglas - Young Man
- Benny Rubin - Pete
- Wilson Wood - Photographer
- Geraldine Wall - Dr. Sprouk
- Guy Stockwell - Young Man
- Carmen Phillips - Mary Smith
- Jhean Burton - Actress
- Anatole Winogradoff - Paul Foster
- Gail Bonney - Woman
- Len Lesser - Waiter
- Dog: Hobo
- Milton Frome - Gus the Waiter
- David Niven - Larry Mackay
- Spring Byington - Suzie Robinson
- Patsy Kelly - Maggie
- John Harding - Rev. Dr. McQuarry
- Charles Herbert - David Mackay
- Flip Mark - George MacKay
- Bobby Darin - Man
- Mary Patton - Mrs. Hunter
- John Brennan - Young Man
- Frank Wilcox - Interviewer
- Irene Tedrow - Mrs. Greenfield
- Charles Seel - Upholstery Man
- Kathryn Card - Miss Yule
- Madge Blake - Mrs. Kilkinny
- Donald Foster - Justin Winters
- Marina Koshetz - Jane March
- Peter Leeds - Larry's Secretary
- Amy Douglass - Martha
- Marianne Gaba - Girl
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
- Writer(s):
- Isobel Lennart
- Producer(s):
- Joe Pasternak
- Categories:
- Comedy
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