Jean Kerr
Jean
Kerr (1922-2003) was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton,
Pennsylvania. Her collection of humorous essays, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies was a bestseller and was adapted into
a film starring Doris Day and David Niven. It was also later adapted into a
sitcom. Her play, Mary, Mary ran for
over a thousand performances, and for a time, held the record for the longest
running non-musical play on Broadway. It was later adapted into a film starring
Debbie Reynolds.
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
- By: Jean Kerr
- Narrator: Marni Webb
- Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 1998
- Language: English
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This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an... Read more
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