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Please Don?t Eat the Daisies House in New York
Aug 24, 2021
Please Don?t Eat the Daisies House
Location: New York State, USA

Photos by Courtesy of Douglas Elliman
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?Please Don’t Eat the Daisies? Home For Sale priced at $5.495 million!

The New York home where best-selling author Jean Kerr wrote Please Don?t Eat the Daisies is for sale at $5.495 million. Kerr and her husband, Walter Kerr, theater critic for The New York Times, raised their six children in the home that was the setting for Jean?s 1957 book, Please Don?t Eat the Daisies. The book was later made into a movie starring Doris Day and David Niven.
The Please Don?t Eat the Daisies storyline runs very close to author Jean?s actual home life. Kerr, with six children instead of the movie version of four, was married to Walter, who also, as in the movie, changed his profession from professor to theater critic. When the family outgrew their New York City apartment, in 1955 they moved to the suburbs in Larchmont, NY – about 20 miles from Manhattan.

According to one of the couple?s sons, when they went to look for their new house, the one they wanted wasn?t possible to view, so they bought a house down the street. Their family life in the home paralleled that of the characters in the book, including one of the children eating the daisies.

One of Larchmont?s mos...