Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1960)
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67% of critics liked it
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67% of users liked it
(5,144 ratings)
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.… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Charles Walters
- Written By
- Isobel Lennart
- Genres
- Kids & Family, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Mar 31, 1960 Wide
- Studio
- MGM
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Doris Day's fluffy comedy, made at the height of her popularity, is based on Jean Kerr (married to film critic Walter Kerr), and co-stars a smooth David Niven as her husband.
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Enjoyable romantic comedy suffers from excess length.
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
Cute little flick, and it has absolutely nothing to do with daisies.
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
...if you're a Doris Day fan, no film of hers is too light or too fluffy.
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
It's so ho-hum, it's hard to stay awake through it. And the title? One of the Mackay kids eats the daisies at the new house. Somehow, in the book that seemed a lot funnier.
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Cast
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Doris Day
as Kate Mackay
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David Niven
as Larry Mackay
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Janis Paige
as Deborah Vaughn
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Spring Byington
as Suzie Robinson
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Richard Haydn
as Alfred North
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Patsy Kelly
as Maggie
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Jack Weston
as Joe Positano
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John Harding
as Rev. Dr. McQuarry
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Margaret Lindsay
as Mona James
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Charles Herbert
as David Mackay
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Stanley Livingston
as Gabriel MacKay
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Flip Mark
as George MacKay
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Madge Blake
as Mrs. Kilkinny
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Jhean Burton
as Actress
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Kathryn Card
as Miss Yule
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Richard Collier
as Salesman
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Bobby Darin
as Man
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Burt Douglas
as Young Man
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Amy Douglass
as Martha
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Milton Frome
as Gus the Waiter
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Marianne Gaba
as Girl
- Dog: Hobo
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Marina Koshetz
as Jane March
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Peter Leeds
as Larry's Secretary
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Len Lesser
as Waiter
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Mary Patton
as Mrs. Hunter
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Carmen Phillips
as Mary Smith
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Charles Seel
as Upholstery Man
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Guy Stockwell
as Young Man
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Irene Tedrow
as Mrs. Greenfield
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Geraldine Wall
as Dr. Sprouk
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Frank Wilcox
as Interviewer
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Wilson Wood
as Photographer
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John Brennan
as Young Man
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Benny Rubin
as Pete
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Gail Bonney
as Woman
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Donald Foster
as Justin Winters
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Anatole Winogradoff
as Paul Foster
