Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a 1960 American Metrocolor comedy film in CinemaScope starring Doris Day and David Niven,[3] made by Euterpe Inc., and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Professor Lawrence "Larry" Mackay and his wife Kate are struggling with four young sons in a tiny two-bedroom apartment in New York City.

They decide to again look for a house in the country, but the only thing they can afford is a run-down mansion complete with secret panels and trap doors, 70 miles (112 km) away by train in fictional Hooton.

Alfred, seeing a chance for a bit of revenge of his own, gives them a terrible play written by a young Lawrence Mackay — with an altered title and fictitious playwright listed on the cover.

"[8] Variety declared, "Yarn launches with a couple of belly laughs, and this high degree of merriment is sustained more or less through its entire 111-minutes' running time, long for a comedy but so well turned out here that it's seldom in need of shearing.

"[9] Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "any resemblance between Lawrence Mackay and any drama critic I ever heard of is purely coincidental.

"[10] Harrison's Reports declared, "Although the humor is more of the hearty chuckle than belly laugh variety, there is enough of it to give a merry effect which is delicately balanced against the seriousness of the problems of a professor turned drama critic.