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Please Don't Eat the Daisies

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the movie was everything i remembered from a matinee when i was alittle girl .loved the movie then loved the movie now the songs were great i would recommend this to all my friends glad your site is trust worthy its hard to get these old movies keep up the good work

This movie was made in the era of Beenie Boppers and Rock Hudson . This movie was a breath of fresh air after all of the other movies that were going on like Bikini Beach, Pajama Party and all of that stuff. This film starred Hollywood Classics. Doris Day & David Niven. This is about a family that lives in New York. The Mackay Family. Well they have 4 little boys that are considered the monsters. Lawrence MacKay (David Niven) is an aspiring PlayWright that was just put in charge as cheif columnist on Movie Review in their local Newspaper. Well Mrs. MacKay (Doris Day) is trying to keep her family together but it is kind of hard when you have 4 little boys that favorite activity is throwing paper bags filled with water out of the window hitting the paserbies on the sidewalk that goes past the apartment building that they live in. Well Mrs. Macakay finally convinces Lawrence that they need to movie out to the country. Well they do but Mr. Mackay has the urge to move out of the country. But Doris won't let him so he stays in a ritzy hotel in New York City close to his office during the week then he comes home on the weekend. Well he meets The beautiful and Seductive Miss Deborah Vaughn (Janis Page) whot tries to get him to movie in with her and have an affair. Well Doris saves the day and the movie ends happily ever after.

This movie features the following hit Doris Day Songs.

Don't Eat The Daisies
Anyway The Wind Blows
Kay Sara Sara

Great Movie. Makes a great movie for those nights. When you and your family are huddled around the Television.

Based on the popular book by Jean Kerr, PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISY is probably the best of Doris Day's 1960s comedies--and it finds her surprisingly paired with David Niven. While the two may seem an unlikely couple, they have extremely good on-screen chemistry, and the film neatly balances its story between the two stars so that neither overshadows the other.

Day plays Kate MacKay, mother of four hellions and the long suffering wife of esoteric drama critic Larry MacKay (Niven.) With her husband under seige by every actor, director, and producer in town, Kate decides to move the family to a home in the country--and in the process leaves her husband open to the temptations of Broadway star Deborah Vaughn (Janis Paige.) Before too long, Larry's swelling ego threatens their happy home.

The cast is expert, with both Day and Niven extremely enjoyable and Janis Paige memorable as the Broadway siren who attempts to lead Niven astray; the supporting roles are also expertly handled by a cast that includes Spring Byington. The script is witty with a dash of sophistocated sparkle, and unlike most of Day's later comedies manages to avoid the feel of frantic farce. A truly enjoyable outing; pure fun all the way.

Doris Day is the mother of four rambunctous children (Charles Herbert, Stanley Livingston and Flip Mark). Her husband (David Niven) is a playwriter who has been hired by a newspaper as a play critic. Not everyone likes him now, but now that he is getting publicity he prefers to stay in the city. Doris Day's dream is to buy a house in the country. That is what they have been planning. They finally buy a big house in the country, but adjusting to country life is different for everyone. Kathryn Card ("I Love Lucy") has a small role. Doris sings "Que Sara Sara" which she first sang in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). The song was later used in the tv series The Doris Day Show. Please Don't Eat The Daisies became a tv series (1965-67) starring Pat Crowley and Mark Miller with Kim Tyler, Brian Nash, Jason Fithian and Jeff Fithian. Ellen Corby played the maid.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a cute movie starring Doris Day and David Niven. It is about a theater critic, his wife and their 4 rambunctious sons who move into a large fixer upper house in the country. I saw this movie on some channel that shows classic movies and I enjoyed watching it and would like to see this movie on DVD. As a child I remember watching reruns of the TV show based on this movie and though I remember that I liked it I think this movie is better. Also look for a young Stanley Livingston from My Three Sons, He played Chip in that classic sitcom and in this movie he plays Doris Day's and David Niven's son Gabriel.

While I remain a fan of Doris Day in her great comedies (Pillow Talk, Send me no Flowers, Lover Come Back), I must say this one was a big disappointment! The plot is lacking dramatic logic, the puns are stale, and the protagonists are not credible.

This is a brilliant movie. If you are having a bad day and think the world is rubbish, this is the movie that may convince you to step out of the house again.
Doris Day is married to David Niven. They have four, young boys all "characters" and all snuggly living in a New York apartment. And what a great New York it is, 1950's at its glory. We even get treated to a shopping trip with Doris at Macy's while she hunts for some fabric to recover her living room chairs. Then David gets successful, they move to the country and have a big fight over a Broadway starlet, whose play, David reviewed.
The story is great, but the era and the City is certainly one of the stars of this movie. Some of my favorite scenes include the bathroom of the Broadway starlet, all pink and red with an amazing amount of guilding and cherub-y looking accessories, the restuarant where David gets slapped, (twice!) not to mention the great party scene, where Doris become aqcuainted with two dogs, one playing the piano and the other of the poodle ilk.
It's just an enjoyable, light-hearted movie for anyone who loves New York, Doris Day, the particular goings on of a New York critic or the life of a housewife, with four boys, and a very large house to "fix-up". And lest I forget,you'll just love Doris's mother and her friend the taxi cab driver!

I really liked this film, it has an intereting story and good humor. Doris Day and David Nivan are cast well together a husband and wie in this film, with children. It's colorful and really interesting.

This is a wonderful film.

Doris Day became famous for looking glamorous in chic dresses and entertaining in light comedy fare, particularly opposite Rock Hudson at Universal. This 1960 release saw Doris looking chic and lovely opposite David Niven in an MGM film based on a book by Jean Kerr about life with her famous husband, New York Times drama critic Walter Kerr and family. The family included a large white dog named Hobo and four obstreperous sons with a propensity for making water balloons and dropping them down on people at ground level.

Niven is seen making a transition, moving from a university drama professorship to a top critic's position at a prestigious New York newspaper. He and Day decide to move to the country, buying a medieval looking large house on the Hudson River a commutable distance from the city, which introduces a large renovation phase reminiscent of Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in "Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House."

Janis Paige is excellent as a sexually aggressive stage star who initially generates publicity following a negative review in Niven's initial piece for the newspaper by slapping the critic twice at Sardi's, the second time because a cameraman did not record the earlier slap. Niven feels self-conscious because the musical was produced by Richard Haydn, his best friend, but feels compelled to criticize it nevertheless out of journalistic duty. After Niven writes a critical commentary about Paige as a means of getting even after being slapped, Haydn is able to turn what has become a feud between glamorous star and drama critic into box office dividends via controversial publicity. Paige finally apologizes, then begins pursuing Niven to the chagrin of Day, but Niven remains true to Day and the story ends happily.