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Comedic Playwright Jean Kerr Dies (Associated Press, January 08, 2003)

Jean Kerr, a playwright and author who wrote with self-deprecating humor about show business and suburbia and had a best-seller in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," has died at age 80.

Kerr died Sunday in White Plains. The apparent cause was pneumonia, her son said.

[K]err is probably best known for "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," an eclectic compilation of her writings about everything from her pet dogs to the oddities of their house in Larchmont.

The book, published in 1957, was turned into a movie with Doris Day three years later and became a situation comedy that ran on NBC form 1965 to 1967.

A better man than I might be able to resist the urge, but one feels compelled to note that she's now pushing up daisies. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2003 9:27 PM