Please Don't Eat the Daisies (film)

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Please Don't Eat the Daisies

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Directed by Charles Walters
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Written by Isobel Lennart
Jean Kerr
Starring Doris Day
David Niven
Janis Paige
Richard Haydn
Spring Byington
Music by David Rose
Cinematography Robert J. Bronner
Editing by John McSweeney Jr.
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) 31 March 1960
Running time 112 min
Country USA
Language English
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a 1960 comedy film made by Euterpe Inc. and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Joe Pasternak with Martin Melcher as associate producer. The screenplay was by Isobel Lennart from the novel of the same name by Jean Kerr.

The film stars Doris Day and David Niven, with Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly and Jack Weston.

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Drama critic Larry McKay (Niven), his wife Kay (Day), 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 (Paige).


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