DVD: Doris Day Classics - Please Don’t Eat The Daisies + The Glass Bottom Boat

Description: PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISES Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a 1960 Metrocolor comedy film in CinemaScope starring Doris Day and David Niven, made by Euterpe Inc., and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The movie was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Joe Pasternak, with Martin Melcher (Day's husband) as associate producer. The screenplay, partly inspired by the 1957 book of the same name by Jean Kerr, a collection of humorous essays, was by Isobel Lennart. The film also features Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, and Jack Weston. Spring Byington made her final film appearance in this film, but appeared in TV shows later. A television series starring Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller premiered five years later and ran for 58 episodes. DETAILED PLOT Professor Lawrence "Larry" Mackay and his wife Kate are struggling with four young sons in a tiny two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Months before, they had announced their intention to move to a larger apartment, but have not been able to find one. Meanwhile, their lease has expired and the landlord has rented out their apartment to someone who insists they vacate immediately. They decide to 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 away by train in fictional Hooton. They have no choice but to move in and start fixing it up. In the midst of the moving chaos, Larry has left his professorship at the university to become a drama critic for a major New York newspaper. His first assignment is to review the new show produced by his best friend, Alfred North. The show is awful, and Larry's review is especially hard on the show's star, Deborah Vaughn, who gets her revenge by hiring a press photographer to capture her slapping Larry's face at Sardi's. This publicity stunt, along with Larry's published response, makes Larry the toast of the town. Kate and Larry are suddenly invited to society parties and hobnobbing with the rich and famous, which begins to go to Larry's head. With the hammering and builders at home, Larry decides to stay in a hotel in the city for a few weeks, leaving Kate to organize the new house. Back home, Kate tries her best to manage the four children and fit into their new community. When asked by the local dramatic society to find them an original play for their next production, Kate turns to Alfred. 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. Alfred then secretly invites all of the major New York critics to review the play. Larry finds out and has a huge fight with Kate, blaming her for his professional embarrassment. He refuses to allow the show to go on. Kate insists it is too late for the Hooton Holler Players to get another show ready, so Larry reluctantly allows them to proceed, publishing his own review of the show before opening night. Not to be left out, Deborah Vaughn decides to strike up a close, personal friendship with Larry, flattering him seductively. Kate's mother Suzie Robinson urges her to get Larry back before it is too late. Kate and Larry make up and return to their country home in time for one of the boys to drop a water bomb on them from an upstairs window. THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT The Glass Bottom Boat is a 1966 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Doris Day, Rod Taylor, and Arthur Godfrey, with John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, and Dick Martin. It is also known as The Spy in Lace Panties. Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day) works at an aerospace lab, but moonlights as a mermaid to boost sales for her father's glass-bottom boat company. When her coworker, Bruce Templeton (Rod Taylor), accidentally hooks her costume while fishing, he is smitten. Back at work, Bruce brings her in as his biographer -- a pretense for wooing her. Meanwhile, inept security agents Julius Pritter (Dom DeLuise) and Homer Cripps (Paul Lynde) wrongfully peg Jennifer as a Soviet spy, causing all sorts of problems. DETAILED PLOT Axel Nordstrom manages a glass-bottom boat tourist operation in the waters of Santa Catalina Island, California. His widowed daughter, Jennifer Nelson, occasionally helps by donning a mermaid costume and swimming underneath his boat for the passengers' amusement. One day, Jennifer accidentally meets Bruce Templeton when his fishing hook snags her costume. He reels in the bottom half, leaving the irate Jennifer floating in the water bottomless. She later has a run-in with Bruce at her new place of employment, an aerospace research company in Long Beach, where she works in public relations. After she discovers that Templeton is the president of the company, she embarrassedly apologizes to him, but he clearly has taken a liking to her. Bruce's company has created a gravitation control device, called the GISMO, which the U.S. Air Force plans to put into orbit in a few weeks and whose secret formula is sought after by the Soviet Union. Bruce hires Jennifer for a new full-time assignment: to be his biographer and write his life story, while he is working on GISMO. His real purpose is to win her affections. Jennifer accompanies him to many of his appointments and begins to feel affection for him. When she is invited to his home, she meets Edgar Hill, a CIA agent making sure the GISMO project is securely handled, and Julius Pritter, a bumbling electronics technician who is installing a Hi-Fi system in Bruce's home. After Julius is left alone in a room, he is seen searching it for information regarding GISMO. He finds and photographs a cryptic note which Bruce had written while brainstorming ideas how to win Jennifer's affection. Julius is later seen transferring the photos to his handler. When Bruce drives Jennifer with his remote-controlled high-speed boat to Catalina, the remote malfunctions and Bruce is thrown from the wildly careening boat, which eventually lands in a parking lot with Jennifer. After Bruce and Jennifer spend a happy evening with Axel and his wife, Jennifer's feelings for Bruce deepen. Bruce is summoned to a meeting with Hill, bumbling security guard Homer Cripps and PR executive Zack Molloy. There Hill explains to him that secret information is leaking, e.g. the note that Julius had photographed. Cripps is very suspicious of Jennifer because of several odd things he had noticed about her: She dials the same telephone number several times every day, counts the rings and then hangs up with the words "that's enough for now, Vladimir." She burns papers alone late at night in the office. And she has a shortwave antenna installed in her home. There are innocent explanations for all of these things, which none of the people in the meeting know about: Vladimir is her dog, who gets his exercise by running through the house barking whenever he hears the phone ring. Jennifer had read a note in the office which explained that old documents should be burned so that they cannot be stolen. And she uses her shortwave antenna to communicate with Axel. Hill asks if the formula is safe and Bruce explains that the two copies are stored in voice activated safes, whose operation Bruce shows to the people in the meeting. Bruce begins to have some doubts regarding Jennifer, imagining her as Mata Hari, but shakes off his doubts. Later that evening, Air Force General Wallace Bleecker arrives to watch over the GISMO project. Julius is confronted by his handler for only providing useless or publicly known information and is pressured into spying at a party which will be held by Bruce the next day. Cripps in turn is spying on Jennifer, overhearing her talking to her father and misunderstanding her end of the conversation as more proof of her involvement in espionage. At the party, Bruce brings Jennifer to a guest room, where she declares her love for him and they plan to spend the night together, but Bruce is again called away to a meeting with Hill, Cripps, Molloy and Bleecker where they discuss the suspicions regarding Jennifer. When she picks up the phone to call Vladimir again, she is able to listen in on the discussion. She is furious at Cripps, Molloy and Bleecker for suspecting her of wrongdoing. And even though Bruce defends her and believes in her innocence, his remark that she is not intelligent enough for this kind of operation infuriates her even more. She intends to turn the tables by pretending to be a spy. She arranges for Molloy and Bleecker to have an embarrassing tete-a-tete by promising to meet both at the same time in the guest room. She manages to tie up Cripps, who had tailed her wearing women's clothing, in the powder room. When Bruce notices her deeds, he is angry and locks her up in the closet. There, she is freed by a hidden Hill, who is revealed to be a spy, has stolen the GISMO formula, and put it in Jennifer's purse to smuggle it out of the house. When Jennifer returns home, she is confronted by Julius. But it is soon revealed that he is only carrying a water pistol and is harmless. But then Hill arrives, draws a gun, reveals himself as the spy and requests the formula. Julius and Jennifer manage to fight him off and then Jennifer flees through the neighborhood while Bruce, Cripps, Bleecker and Molloy, who have found out the truth, race in their cars to save Jennifer. Hill is finally stopped by a blow to the head with a nightlamp by neighbor Mabel Fenimore. The film ends with Jennifer and Bruce on their honeymoon, where they ride the same boat from before, which again malfunctions and leaves them in the parking lot on Catalina Island.

Price: 25 AUD

Location: Bundaberg, Queensland

End Time: 2024-03-05T08:11:18.000Z

Shipping Cost: 13.79 AUD