Don't Eat the Daisies (Movie)

This movie was made in 1960 and starred Doris Day and I had never watched it before.  I thought it was a funny film and enjoyed watching it late at night by myself when no one else was home. It was not a fantastic film or anything like that, but certainly it is cultural and had "family values" protrayed in it, which I appreciated.

See a Clip from this film.

I choose it because a long time ago I had gone to see a play that I really liked and someone told me it was based on this film, I never say this movie and now thirty years later after seeing it,"I a not so sure it was at all like the play I remembered seeing.

Plase dont Eat The Daisy's was about a man and his wife who live in New York and dream of living in the country.  They live in an apartment while he works as a drama critic writing reviews of show.  You see the two portrayed as a loving couple trying to survive life in the trendy Hollywood/Broadway scene.  As a critic he gets a little outspoken becomes a little famous and the next thing you know he wants to stay close to the excitment, meanwhile mom and wife still want to move to the counrty and finds herself moving and trying to hang on to their marriage and family life, and this with a family of 4 very busy boys and big baby dog.  I read somewhere that is was a book before it as a movie. After it made it big as a movie, it was a television series.

Doris Day was really cute and I thought it interesting that she was so popular film star.  She is  in her day.  I really do not know too much about her except that since she was born in 1922 she would be about 88 year old now.  She is still alive and lives in CA.

Having watched a few older movies of late, mostly Fred Astair dancing films, I think it is interesting how the goal of the characters in so many films was being a "star."  Many of the themse are built around show business. I really like the old dancing movies.  One of my favorites is Royal Wedding.

Back tot his movie review, I never really understood the title, though I do know that the line was in the film.   Any insight?


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The next movie on my list of things to view is Fireproof.  And I am almost done reading the Universe Next Door so I hope to review that one soon.  Other reviews of anything would be fun to read if anyone else is interested in keeping this page going.