Ne mangez pas les marguerites (1960)

Awards
- 5 nominations total

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Doris Day

Kate Robinson Mackay

David Niven

Laurence Mackay

Janis Paige

Deborah Vaughn

Spring Byington

Suzie Robinson

Richard Haydn

Alfred North

Patsy Kelly

Maggie

Jack Weston

Joe Positano

John Harding

Reverend Norman McQuarry

Margaret Lindsay

Mona James

Carmen Phillips

Mary Smith

Mary Patton

Mrs. Hunter

Charles Herbert

David Mackay

Stanley Livingston

Gabriel Mackay

Flip Mark

George Mackay

Baby Gellert

Adam Mackay

Madge Blake

Mrs. Kilkinny
(scenes deleted)

Barbara Aberle

Guest
(uncredited)

Eddie Baker

Sardi's Patron
(uncredited)

Director
- Charles Walters
Writers
- Isobel Lennart
- Jean Kerr
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WOW, the comments here are nastier than an open sewer!

I get that 1950s-style family comedies are perhaps a hard sell even for modern-day classic film fans, but the hate PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES gets is staggering to me. It's hardly the funniest or greatest film of all time, but I found the central relationship between Doris Day and David Niven's characters mature and realistic. There's a decided lack of dated "father knows best" stereotyping-- everyone is flawed and real-- and there's no contrived melodrama either. It's slow, sure (when you watch old movies regularly, you expect that), but I found the movie charming and relaxing.

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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.