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| Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' | |
| Last Edit: Marlo*Manners 09:40 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 09:27 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: ''Critic's Choice'' isn't -- Anyone see it on Broadway? - WaymanWong 11:45 pm EDT 07/13/21 | |
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| Jean Kerr wrote a semi-autobiographical bestseller called "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" which was adapted into a motion picture in 1960 starring David Niven and Doris Day. It has similar plotlines as "Critic's Choice" - a theater critic is married to a writer and they move into the country. He has to review their best friend's new play while fending off the attentions of a Broadway actress - mayhem and hilarity ensues. Niven and Day were better cast as critic and playwriting wife than Hope and Ball. Getting back to the topic at hand - Doris Day had more skill and range than she has generally been credited for. I think she would have scored in the leading role in the film adaptation of "Mary, Mary". Also, a freer adaptation with a quicker, bouncier pace would have resulted in a better picture. I am also of the opinion that Doris Day should have done "Forty Carats" as well which was offered to her and turned down. Liv Ullmann was too young and all wrong. I also think she should have been Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific". Doris started out as a band singer which is live performing. Did she ever do stage work? Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington) |
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| re: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' | |
| Posted by: dbdbdb 10:17 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| In reply to: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' - Marlo*Manners 09:27 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
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| It should be noted that Please Don't Eat the Daisies, the book, is a collection of comic essays about Kerr's life as a playwright, housewife, and mother. Isobel Lennart is a piece of fiction that borrows a few details from Kerr. The two properties have very little to do with each other. Your idea about Doris Day in Mary, Mary is very interesting, and I agree she might have made something very amusing out of it. I suppose it was impossible that Barbara Bel Geddes would ever have been cast in the film. | |
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| re: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:26 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' - dbdbdb 10:17 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
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| I just watched this last night and was thinking that it would have worked so much better as a vehicle for Doris Day and Rock Hudson. The movie is so slowly paced that I would also have suggested that whomever wrote and directed the Day/Hudson film might add a little zip to the proceedings as well. | |
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