Based on the best-selling book and movie of the same name (Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)). Set in Ridgemont, New York, the Nashes are an unusual suburban family. Jim Nash, a college ... See full summary »
Please Don't Eat The Daisies was inspired by the book Jean Kerr, wife of Herald
Tribune theater critic Walter Kerr wrote about her domestic bliss. The movie had
Doris Day writing a play and David Niven reviewing it, the plot emerges from
there.
Mark Miller is an English professor and Pat Crowley is your suburban housewife
raising 4 boys and a sheepdog who looks like a cousin of Tiger from the Brady
Bunch and Tramp from My Three Sons. Nothing special in terms of the episodes that you didn't see from other family comedies
This was a typical role for Doris Day. But for Pat Crowley most unusual since
she usually was playing sex kittens. Mark Miller was a pleasant enough man,
but up against David Niven strictly out of his league.
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