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Released
1960 · FILM

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“The Uproarious Movie From The Big Best-Seller!”

Directed by
Charles Walters
Written by
Isobel Lennart, Jean Kerr
Runtime
112 min
ComedyFamilyRomance

Synopsis

Drama critic Larry Mackay, along with his wife Kate and their four sons, relocates from their cramped Manhattan apartment to a historic home in the countryside. As housewife Kate adjusts to suburban living, Larry remains engaged with the theater and social life in New York.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John Mcsweeney JrShot by Robert J BronnerScored by David Rose

Box Office

1960 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.2M

Budget$1.8M
Worldwide gross$5.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Meisterschaft im Seitensprungde
  • No os comáis las margaritases
  • Ne mangez pas les margueritesfr
  • Non mangiate le margheriteit

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