On this day in movie history - Send Me No Flowers (movie & play):

Send Me No Flowers

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by Julius Epstein,

based on the play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore,

was released in the United States on October 14, 1964.
Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Clint Walker, Hal March, Edward Andrews, Clive Clerk, Patricia Barry, Dave Willock.

Recommended reading:

Send Me No Flowers

A play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore.

Originally published 1960.

Published by Concord Theatricals.

Paperback.

ASIN: B0D5SYSRF9

ISBN-10: 057361525X

ISBN-13: 978-0573615252

Description:

A comedy in three acts.

David Wayne starred on Broadway as George Kimball, a Westchester commuter whose favorite hobby is hypochondria. When he mistakenly overhears his doctor discussing another patient with heart trouble, he prepares to meet the end bravely, sure it is 'his time'. Putting his affairs in order, he writes a heartbreaking letter to his wife to be read as his eulogy. He even arranges a good second husband for his soon-to-be widow, with a cemetery plot for three: himself, his wife and the new future 'Mister Kimball'.