DORIS DAY Original PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES Photo LOBBY CARD Janis Paige '60

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This is an ORIGINAL Color Photo LOBBY CARD, measuring 11" x 14".  It has light wear.  It is OVER 55 YEARS OLD!!!
It is from M.G.M. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer It is a great action scene featuring America's sweetheart, DORIS DAY and JANIS PAIGE in a scene from the
classic 1960 Comedy Romance,
PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES
University drama professor Laurence Mackay and his wife Kate Mackay prefer the quiet of home life - however quiet theirs can be living in a New York City apartment with four rambunctious adolescent and/or infant sons and a sheepdog - than the high life often associated with the New York theater. That is why they plan to move to the country whenever they can find a suitable house. Their lives have the potential to change when Larry becomes a theater critic for one of the big New York City newspapers, meaning that he, along with his six colleagues at the other big New York papers, control what stays and what goes on Broadway by their critiques. Things do not start off well for Larry in this new job when the first play he is to review is that of his and Kate's best friend, Alfred North, who is the godfather to their children. Larry, who had always been seen as a fair man, hates the play, and gives it a bad review. Kate begins to believe that Larry is changing because of his new job, seeming now to enjoy the socialite parties he used to abhor, and almost wanting to be able to write a bad review as they contain more quotable witticisms than good reviews and wield more power in terms of fear from producers. He also seems no longer to want to move to the country. They are, out of circumstances, forced to move regardless. In their run down country home in Hooton, New York, Kate tries to carve out a new life for their family. But her participation in a local charity theater production for which she asks Alfred for a new play to mount threatens not only the Mackay's friendship with Alfred, but the Mackay's marriage altogether.
Director:
Charles Walters
Writers:
Isobel Lennart
(screenplay),
Jean Kerr
(book)
Stars:
Doris Day
,
David Niven
,
Janis Paige
Cast:
Doris Day
...
Kate Robinson Mackay
David Niven
...
Laurence Mackay
Janis Paige
...
Deborah Vaughn
Spring Byington
...
Suzie Robinson
Richard Haydn
...
Alfred North
Patsy Kelly
...
Maggie
Jack Weston
...
Joe Positano
John Harding
...
Reverend Norman McQuarry
Margaret Lindsay
...
Mona James
Carmen Phillips
...
Mary Smith
Mary Patton
...
Mrs. Hunter
Charles Herbert
...
David Mackay
Stanley Livingston
...
Gabriel Mackay
Flip Mark
...
George Mackay
Baby Gellert
...
Adam Mackay
Nice piece of original lobby card for the classic Hollywood or Doris Day Lover.
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MORE INFO ON DORIS DAY:
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1924) is an
American
actress and singer, and an
animal rights activist
since her retirement from
show business
. Her entertainment career began in the 1940s as a
big band
singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording, "
Sentimental Journey
". In 1948, she appeared in her first film,
Romance on the High Seas
. During her entertainment career, she appeared in 39 films, recorded more than 650 songs, received an
Academy Award
nomination, won a
Golden Globe
and a
Grammy Award
, and, in 1989, received the
Cecil B. DeMille Award
for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
As of 2009, Day was the top-ranking female
box office
star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female).
One of America's most prolific actresses was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her parents divorced while she was still a child and she lived with her mother. Like most little girls, Doris liked to dance. She aspired to become a professional ballerina, but an automobile accident that crushed a leg ended whatever hopes she had of dancing on stage. It was a terrible setback, but after taking singing lessons she found a new vocation, and began singing with local bands. She met trombonist Al Jorden, whom she married in 1941. Jorden was prone to violence and they divorced after two years, not long after the birth of their son Terry. In 1946, Doris married
George Weidler
, but this union lasted less than a year. Day's agent talked her into taking a screen test at Warner Bros. The executives there liked what they saw and signed her to a contract (her early credits are often confused with those of another actress named Doris Day, who appeared mainly in B westerns in the 1930s and 1940s). Her first starring movie role was in
Romance on the High Seas
(1948). The next year, she made two more films,
My Dream Is Yours
(1949) and
It's a Great Feeling
(1949). Audiences took to her beauty, terrific singing voice and bubbly personality, and she turned in fine performances in the
movies
she made (in addition to several hit records). She made three films for Warner Bros. in 1950 and five more in 1951. In that year, she met and married
Martin Melcher
, who adopted her young son Terry, who later grew up to become
Terry Melcher
, a successful record producer. In 1953, Doris starred in
Calamity Jane
(1953), which was a major hit, and several more followed:
Lucky Me
(1954),
Love Me or Leave Me
(1955),
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(1956) and what is probably her best-known film,
Pillow Talk
(1959). She began to slow down her filmmaking pace in the 1960s, even though she started out the decade with a hit,
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
(1960).
Her husband, who had also taken charge of her career, had made deals for her to star in films she didn't really care about, which led to a bout with exhaustion. The 1960s weren't to be a repeat of the previous busy decade. She didn't make as many films as she had in that decade, but the ones she did make were successful:
Do Not Disturb
(1965),
The Glass Bottom Boat
(1966),
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
(1968) and
With Six You Get Eggroll
(1968).
Martin Melcher
died in 1968, and Doris never made another film, but she had been signed by Melcher to do her own
TV
series,
"The Doris Day Show"
(1968). That show, like her movies, was also successful, lasting until 1973. After her series went off the air, she made only occasional
TV
appearances. Today, she runs the Doris Day Animal League in Carmel, California, which advocates homes and proper care of household pets. What else would you expect of America's sweetheart?
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