Please Don't Eat the Daisies

...a sluggish endeavor that’s rarely as charming (or even entertaining) as one might’ve anticipated...

Kerr's best-seller was a plotless package of anecdotes about her parental ordeal in raising a houseful of Lovable Brats. The movie, although droll in spots, clumsily tries to make a big thing of the fact that Daddy is a New York drama critic...

Doris Day's fluffy comedy, made at the height of her popularity, is based on Jean Kerr (married to film critic Walter Kerr), and co-stars a smooth David Niven as her husband.

Enjoyable romantic comedy suffers from excess length.

Cute little flick, and it has absolutely nothing to do with daisies.

It's so ho-hum, it's hard to stay awake through it. And the title? One of the Mackay kids eats the daisies at the new house. Somehow, in the book that seemed a lot funnier.