Please Don't Eat the Daisies (film)

  • Doris Day: Kate Robinson Mackay
  • David Niven: Lawrence Larry 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

Championship Affair (Original Title: Please Do not Eat the Daisies ) is an American film comedy starring Doris Day and David Niven in 1960, based on the book (1947 ) by Jean Kerr.

Action

Kate and Larry Mackay live with their four sons in a New York apartment. Larry has worked as a professor. Now he wants to try as a theater critic. The first stage play, which he reviews, is a musical production of his friend Alfred North. The musical is so bad that Larry sees despite bad conscience compelled against his friend to write a negative review. In a restaurant, Larry and Kate taken in response to Deborah Vaughn, the star of Alfred's show. The buxom blonde babe gives Larry a slap, which is promptly captured by a photographer with a snapshot. As the photo appears on the front pages of local newspapers, Larry writes a column in which he said mockingly that Alfred's show will not be borne by Deborah's acting talent, but only on their physical charms. In a subsequent party Larry is acclaimed and ensnared by polite society. Also Deborah flatters himself in his commercial appeal, whereupon Larry admits benevolent. Alfred is Kate thinking meanwhile, as he thinks that Larry gradually transform into a critic who likes to be to maul plays.

As Kate noted that the lease on their apartment expires, it proposes to take with the kids in a big house outside the city. Larry is all about the proposal other than done, but can be by his wife persuaded yet. To his chagrin, is at her new home to a strong run-down property. Unlike him, Kate makes full of enthusiasm immediately proceeded to make the necessary renovations. Soon they will ask community members to find a suitable stage play for the theater group of the local school. Since Larry refuses to make a suggestion, Kate Alfred asks for help. This gives her a piece that Larry had written as a young man. Alfred, however, does not tell Kate that it comes from the pen of her husband.

Since feels disturbed by the noise of renovation work in his work Larry, he moves temporarily in a New York hotel. A few days later, Kate sees a televised interview with Deborah that it falsely suggests, to have an affair with Larry. After Deborah has tried in vain in a restaurant, Larry actually to seduce, this returns home and visited one of Kate's rehearsals. He recognizes the lines of dialogue of his own land again. Embarrassed and knowing that it is good for nothing, Larry wants to ban is the author of the piece of theater group performance, although this is already sold. Kate is beside herself, which is why Larry reluctantly gives in and writes a scathing critique of his own piece. Later, Larry realizes that his work has served as a critic only damage, which is why he hangs his job on the nail and returns to his family.

Background

In the literary text, the author Jean Kerr described her life with her husband Walter Kerr, a theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune and an excellent Pulitzer Prize playwright. Together wrote the Kerr's stage plays such as King of Hearts and The Song of Bernadette. As in the film, the couple had four children. In its contract with MGM, but Jean Kerr insisted that the film of her husband and the name of his newspaper were not mentioned. In her review of the film, the New York Herald Tribune criticized, perhaps ironic that he was unrealistic and had the effect of a theater critic classified too high.

The shooting took place from early August to early October 1959. Doris Day sings the title song in the film Please Do not Eat the Daisies, and Any Way the Wind Blows and briefly also Que Sera, Sera. On March 31, 1960, the film in which Spring Byington had her last screen appearance was premiered in New York City. In Germany championship came in the escapade on 2 June 1960 in the cinemas. On October 19, 1973, the comedy was first shown on German television.

Due to the success of the film was created in 1965 also based on the same stuff TV series on NBC that aired until 1967.

Reviews

" With wit and humor staged, played spirited ," was the lexicon of international film. The result is a "light, fun comedy". Cinema said that the film is " [ f] ast already touchingly modest and chaste " is. Prism spoke of a " spirited comedy", in the " deodorant Duse ' Doris Day again as America's Clean wife No. 1" shine. The "good Dialogwit [z ] " it was thanks to that "one of being evil antiquated morality here quite forgive " could.

For Variety, the film was at the time a " shallow comedy," in which some " highly amusing moments " would rather loosely related. However, Charles Walters ' Director caring for an " excellent pace ". Variety also praised the performances by Doris Day and David Niven. Film critic Leonard Maltin called Championship escapade in retrospect as " gay film", in which the children " very amusing " were, as well as the Supporting Actor Spring Byington, Patsy Kelly, and " especially" Janis Paige.

Awards

At the ceremony for the Laurel Awards the film was nominated for Best Comedy in 1960. The side actresses Janis Paige and Spring Byington received more nominations. The former could ultimately occupy the 3rd place. Director Charles Walters received a 1961 nomination for the Award of the Directors Guild of America. Isobel Lennart screenwriter was nominated in the same year for the price of the Writers Guild of America.

German version

The German synchronous processing originated in 1960 by the MGM studio synchronization Berlin.

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