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Ne mangez pas les marguerites

Original title: Please Don't Eat the Daisies
  • 1960
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
5.2K
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Doris Day, David Niven, Baby Gellert, Charles Herbert, Stanley Livingston, Flip Mark, Janis Paige, and Hobo in Ne mangez pas les marguerites (1960)
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Drama professor turned theater critic balances his home life and career when he moves to the country with his wife and their four sons.Drama professor turned theater critic balances his home life and career when he moves to the country with his wife and their four sons.Drama professor turned theater critic balances his home life and career when he moves to the country with his wife and their four sons.

  • Director
    • Charles Walters
  • Writers
    • Isobel Lennart
    • Jean Kerr
  • Stars
    • Doris Day
    • David Niven
    • Janis Paige
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    5.2K
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    • Director
      • Charles Walters
    • Writers
      • Isobel Lennart
      • Jean Kerr
    • Stars
      • Doris Day
      • David Niven
      • Janis Paige
    • 53User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 nominations total

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    Doris Day
    Doris Day
    • Kate Robinson Mackay
    David Niven
    David Niven
    • Laurence Mackay
    Janis Paige
    Janis Paige
    • Deborah Vaughn
    Spring Byington
    Spring Byington
    • Suzie Robinson
    Richard Haydn
    Richard Haydn
    • Alfred North
    Patsy Kelly
    Patsy Kelly
    • Maggie
    Jack Weston
    Jack Weston
    • Joe Positano
    John Harding
    • Reverend Norman McQuarry
    Margaret Lindsay
    Margaret Lindsay
    • Mona James
    Carmen Phillips
    Carmen Phillips
    • Mary Smith
    Mary Patton
    • Mrs. Hunter
    Charles Herbert
    Charles Herbert
    • David Mackay
    Stanley Livingston
    Stanley Livingston
    • Gabriel Mackay
    Flip Mark
    Flip Mark
    • George Mackay
    Baby Gellert
    Baby Gellert
    • Adam Mackay
    Madge Blake
    Madge Blake
    • Mrs. Kilkinny
    • (scenes deleted)
    Barbara Aberle
    • Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Eddie Baker
    Eddie Baker
    • Sardi's Patron
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Charles Walters
    • Writers
      • Isobel Lennart
      • Jean Kerr
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    6bkoganbing

    Another Dream House

    Please Don't Eat The Daisies is an updating of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House from the woman's point of view. It's taken from a humorous book of the same title by Jean Kerr, wife of the New York Herald Tribune theater critic Walter Kerr. The Kerrs have four boys instead of two girls so we're talking about double the trouble.

    Trouble the children are indeed. The film actually opens with the four boys getting their baby brother to drop water balloons on poor passersby of their Manhattan apartment. Which in itself is getting too crowded. But when the real estate agent starts showing the apartment off just as their lease is expiring, Doris Day and David Niven have to move and move quickly.

    Like Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, they sink quite a bit of dollars into what we would now call a fix-it-up. But where Cary was hip deep in his involvement in the new house, David Niven is all caught up in his work as one of New York's drama critics. It's up to Doris to keep the household together and get the house livable.

    Niven's got his own troubles too, he breaks a friendship with an old friend Richard Haydn when he gives producer Haydn's play a bad review. Not to mention a public slap at Sardi's from Haydn's star Janis Paige who will match her fanny with anyone's. Janis did have quite the derrière back in the day.

    Haydn's really got a great scheme to get back at Niven for the bad review. It's a pip, you have to see Please Don't Eat The Daisies for.

    Doris gets to sing three songs, including the title song which became a big hit for her. It's perfectly suited to her style.

    She sings well and David Niven is as debonair and charming as he always is on the screen. The film even spawned a television series later on in the decade. Please Don't Eat The Daisies still holds up well as good family entertainment.
    8gftbiloxi

    Amusing Story With Lots of Star-Powered Charm

    Based on the popular book by Jean Kerr, PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISY is probably the best of Doris Day's 1960s comedies--and it finds her surprisingly paired with David Niven. While the two may seem an unlikely couple, they have extremely good on-screen chemistry, and the film neatly balances its story between the two stars so that neither overshadows the other.

    Day plays Kate MacKay, mother of four hellions and the long suffering wife of esoteric drama critic Larry MacKay (Niven.) With her husband under siege by every actor, director, and producer in town, Kate decides to move the family to a home in the country--and in the process leaves her husband open to the temptations of Broadway star Deborah Vaughn (Janis Paige.) Before too long, Larry's swelling ego threatens their happy home.

    The cast is expert, with both Day and Niven extremely enjoyable and Janis Paige memorable as the Broadway siren who attempts to lead Niven astray; the supporting roles are also expertly handled by a cast that includes Spring Byington. The script is witty with a dash of sophisticated sparkle, and unlike most of Day's later comedies manages to avoid the feel of frantic farce. A truly enjoyable outing; pure fun all the way.

    Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer
    7sol-

    When you could get away with locking your kid in a cage

    Being an honest theatre critic proves unexpectedly challenging for a college professor and his wife in this oddly titled comedy starring David Niven and Doris Day. The film is essentially two tales in one. It is partially about the theatre critic job getting to Niven's head and partially about the impact on Day who has to raise their four bratty children on their own (as he is so busy), something that eventually leads them to moving out of the city to the countryside where they experience new house woes. For a film so clearly structured as two overlapping tales, 'Please Don't Eat the Dasies' works surprisingly well. As an avid film-goer, it is easy to sympathise with Niven's desire to only give credit where credit is due when writing reviews, and as with Bob Hope's subsequent 'Critic's Choice', the film taps into the difficulty of resisting wittiness over descriptions when writing reviews. Day's dilemmas are not quite as interesting (and the film very awkwardly squeezes in no less than three songs for her to sing) but she is solid in her own right, noticeably suffocated under the weight of her children. On the downside, her kids are too obnoxious to ever be cute or really funny, but one might argue this as intentional. It is certainly at least hard to think of another mainstream movie that has managed to get away with playing up the locking up of a kid in a cage for laughs (!). Of course, the film's most unique aspect is its title, modeled on the contrary nature of the couple's kids who think nothing of eating all their daisies because they have never been told not to!
    8ipra

    A bright, sweet Doris Day confection for her fans.

    Although made in 1960, this classic sampling of Doris Day fluff is more a product of the 50s than the coming decade of the 60s. As ever, Miss Day is gorgeous and perfectly turned out, this time the mother of four small boys, an aspiring playwright overshadowed by her theater critic husband, coping with a series of domestic crises while she attempts to move her family from a city apartment to an improbably ramshackle English-style country house. 'Improbable' is indeed the word for the entire plot of this movie, but then probability was seldom the reason we went to the movies in the 50s. Bouyed along by the bright force of Miss Day's personality, the light touch and easy charm of David Niven, and ably supported by Janice Paige, Spring Byington, and Richard Haydn, this pic has all the bouncy sweetness and escapism her fans so appreciate in Miss Day's work. So, if you are looking for a 2-hour time trip to what seems like a kinder and gentler time, don't mind bumping your nose against a few cultural idiosyncrasies of the 50s (and no Day fan can avoid that), enjoy discovering some charming but forgotten musical numbers, appreciate really great vintage clothes, and generally believe it is hard for Miss Day to do any wrong, this seldom-mentioned film is just the ticket!
    dougdoepke

    Not One of Day's Best

    A drama critic, his wife, and four sons move from sophisticated New York digs to community-centered suburbia. Naturally adjustment problems ensue.

    All in all, this A-film is a disappointment. Drama critics are just not the stuff of comedies, nor does Niven get help in lightening the mood. Then too, since both stars were at career peaks, the screenplay expands their screen time with a lot of draggy exposition that doesn't help the amusement factor. And since the plight of Broadway critics is not exactly grist for popular audiences, I expect Day was added to provide the needed appeal. Trouble is she doesn't get to do her usual sparkle. It's a subdued role a dozen lesser names could have handled, and even her meager musical numbers are not exactly show stoppers. Moreover, director Walters seems unsure what to do with the bratty boys, who could have been milked for some laughs instead of too many groans. Still, the near two-hours does have its moments, especially with a cowardly canine, and Janis Paige (Deborah) whose ambitious vixen hits just the right notes. Anyhow, the chemistry never really gels and Day fans should stick with Rock who at least gets an honorable mention from the screenplay.

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    • Trivia
      The musical number Kate rehearses for the amateur show, "Any Way The Wind Blows," had been written for Doris Day's previous film Confidences sur l'oreiller (1959). The song title was, for a while, even the working title of that film.
    • Goofs
      When Kate Mackay (Doris Day) is putting on her makeup at the beginning of the film, she tells the boys "Oh fellas, now you know I have to meet David-" and stops mid-sentence. She should have used Larry, Laurence, Dad, or some other character reference rather than the actor's (David Niven) name.
    • Quotes

      Alfred North: For a critic that first step is the first printed joke. It gets a laugh and a whole new world opens up. He makes another joke, and another. And then one day along comes a joke that shouldn't be made because the show he's reviewing is a good show. But, as it so happens, it's a good joke. And you know what? The joke wins.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Magic Dishes (1960)
    • Soundtracks
      Please Don't Eat the Daisies
      Lyrics and Music by Joe Lubin

      Performed by Doris Day (uncredited)

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    • Release date
      • September 29, 1960 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Please Don't Eat the Daisies
    • Filming locations
      • Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Euterpe
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      • $1,775,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 52m(112 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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