Dr. Strangelove

Daisy's story is below the poster.

Daisy's second movie with Peter Sellers was a much different experience than she had in The Pink Panther.

In Dr. Strangelove, the director, Stanley Kubrick, was a stickler for planning and details, scripting every single aspect of action and dialogue and shooting scenes over and over and over until he was satisfied. However, he did allow Sellers to improvise many of his lines. That challenged Daisy and the rest of the cast to stay in character and adapt to Sellers' improvisations.

At first, Daisy was confused by Sellers because each of the three characters that he portrayed not only looked completely different, but also sounded different.

Sellers' roles as the President Muffley and Group Captain Mandrake were her favorites because in those scenes there were no sudden movements and his voice was calm and very reassuring; however, his Dr. Strangelove was unnerving when his voice began to rise to a maniacal pitch and when that gloved hand began making unexpectedly strange movements of its own.

She was wary of George C. Scott's hyperactive General Turgidson character, but he was nice when not filming. He and Kubrick often played chess between scenes. Sterling Hayden's character General Jack D. Ripper was strange, too. She never did understand his obsession with "essential bodily fluids," and that cigar had an unpleasant stench even though he never lit it.