Please Don’t Eat The Daisies
US Release Date: 31 March 1960

• Doris Day — Kate Mackay

• David Niven — Lawrence Larry Mackay

• Janis Paige — Deborah Vaughn

• Spring Byington — Suzie Robinson

• Richard Haydn — Alfred North

• Patsy Kelly — Maggie

• Jack Weston — Joe Positano

Jean Kerr’s popular book is brought to life with a surprise pairing of Doris and David Niven. Whilst the two may not seem a likely couple they do have extremely good and entertaining “on-screen” chemistry. Day plays the chic housewife and mother whilst Niven is the tyrannous theatre critic. They move with their four sons from a crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. This is 1960s family “sit-com” material done on a big-screen budget.

Director(s): Charles Walters
Producer(s): Joe Pasternak (Assistant Producer Martin Melcher)
Studio: MGM (USA)
Family/Comedy/Romance
Colour (Metrocolor-CinemaScope)