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    Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960)

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    An overworked theatre critic decides to quit the rat race and takes his wife and family to live in the country – a move fraught with problems.

    pleasedonteatdaisies2This brash, colourful and fast-moving MGM comedy is based on Jean Kerr’s episodic reminiscences about life with hubby, ace Broadway drama critic Walter Kerr.

    The couple are delightfully played by Doris Day, whose company produced this movie for Metro, and the ever-urbane David Niven, who is hilarious in the scenes where he’s pursued by panned Broadway actress Janis Paige.

    Director Charles Walters maintains a fast pace and the stylish use of CinemaScope is exemplary, providing a clever cinematic contrast as Day and Niven decamp from Manhattan to a country abode.

    This was one of a series of generally underrated MGM comedies, invariably directed by Walters, that included such gems as The Tender Trap (1955) and Don’t Go Near the Water.

    pleasedonteatdaisies3Kate Robinson Mackay
    Doris Day
    Laurence Mackay
    David Niven
    Deborah Vaughn
    Janis Paige
    Suzie Robinson
    Spring Byington
    Alfred North
    Richard Haydn
    Maggie
    Patsy Kelly
    Joe Positano
    Jack Weston
    Reverend Norman McQuarry
    John Harding
    Mona James
    Margaret Lindsay
    Mary Smith
    Carmen Phillips
    Mrs Hunter
    Mary Patton
    David Mackay
    Charles Herbert
    Gabriel Mackay
    Stanley Livingston
    George Mackay
    Flip Mark
    Adam Mackay
    Baby Gellert

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    Charles Walters

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