Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) is a family comedy you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Charles Walters and starring Doris Day and David Niven, adapted from Jean Kerr's hugely popular 1957 book.

Larry Mackay (Niven) has become New York's most feared drama critic, happy to sharpen the axe each night while his reputation grows. Kate (Day), managing four small boys in a cramped Manhattan flat, pushes for a move to a rambling old house in the country. She settles into rural life easily. Larry splits his evenings between commuter trains and theatre parties, and the two slowly drift into different rhythms.

Jean Kerr wrote the original as comic essays about her own marriage to drama critic Walter Kerr — which gives every scene of Niven wielding his pen a quietly autobiographical edge. Day brings warmth without pushing it. Stream Please Don't Eat the Daisies online on iFILM.