Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Euterpe / MGM, 1960, Color, 111 minutes, ***

Released March, 1960



Pleasant comedy stars David Niven and Doris Day as the drama critic and his wife who pack up their brood and move from New York City to a dilapidated old house in the country, only to find old and new problems awaiting them. Janis Paige, Patsy Kelly, Richard Haydn co-star.





Produced by: Joe Pasternak

Associate Producer: Martin Melcher

Assistant to the Producer: Irving Aaronson

Directed by: Charles Walters

Assistant Director: Al Jennings

Screen Play by: Isobel Lennart

Based on the Book by Jean Kerr

Music Score: David Rose

Songs: "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" Lyric and Music by Joe Lubin; "Anyway the Wind Blows" Lyric by By Dunham, Music by Marilyn Hooven and Joe Hooven

Art Directors: George W. Davis and Hans Peters

Set Decorations: Henry Grace, Jerry Wunderlich

Costumes by: Morton Haack

Hair Styles by: Sydney Guilaroff

Makeup by: William Tuttle

Recording Supervisor: Franklin Milton

Director of Photography: Robert Bronner

Filmed in CinemaScope and Mertocolor

Color Consultant: Charles K. Hagedon

Film Editor: John McSweeney, Jr.



Cast: Doris Day [Kate Mackay], David Niven [Lawrence Mackay], Janis Paige [Deborah Vaughn], Spring Byington [Mrs. Suzie Robinson], Richard Haydn [Alfred North], Patsy Kelly [Maggie], Jack Weston [Joe Positano], John Harding [Rev. Dr. McQuarry], Margaret Lindsay [Mona James], Charles Herbert [David Mackay], Stanley Livingston [Gabriel Mackay], Flip Mark [George Mackay], Baby Gellert [Adam Mackay], Carmen Phillips [Mary Smith], Mary Patton [Mrs. Hunter], Marina Koshetz [Jane March], Geraldine Wall [Dr. Sprouk], Kathryn Card [Miss Yule], Donald Foster [Justin Winters], Irene Tedrow [Mrs. Greenfield], Anatole Winogradoff [Paul Foster], Benny Rubin [Pete], Madge Blake [Mrs. Kilkinny], Peter Leeds [Larry's Secretary], Joe Cronin [Pianist], Bobby Darin [Man], Bess Flowers [Lady in Elevator]



Musical Program: [0:00] Overture: "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (instrumental arrangement played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:18] Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be) (excerpt sung by Doris Day); [1:25] Please Don't Eat the Daisies (sung and danced by Doris Day and School Children); [1:35] Any Way the Wind Blows (sung and danced by Doris Day and Chorus)