The Daisy was good, happy fun and, after hosting a fund-raiser for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, “underscored an interesting change in Hollywood mores,” Peter Bart reported in The New York Times, “namely, that it is becoming stylish in the movie colony to be a liberal thinker,” barely possible in the previous generation, when moguls kept their stars’ public images on a tight leash. But since the end of the Hollywood blacklist shamed those who stayed silent, Bart observed, it was no longer considered gauche in Hollywood to talk politics; it was gauche not to.
