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PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES
August 2, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

It’s Doris Day – or, more accurately, Doris Day Day – on TCM. Highlights include 1951’s Lullaby of Broadway at 11 a.m. ET, a 1976 appearance on The Tonight Show on Carson on TCM at 7:45 p.m. ET, and this 1960 comedy, which stars David Niven as a drama critic who moves his wife and family to a rollicking life in the country, based on the stories by Jean Kerr. When the TV version was made in 1965, he became a college professor played by Mark Miller, and she became a newspaper columnist played by Patricia Crowley – on whom, at age 12, I had a huge crush. I was too young to know Doris Day had originated the role in a movie, but I’m not sure that would have made any difference. Tonight, though, I’ll be focused entirely on Doris Day.

 
 
 
 
 
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