Teacher's Pet

One of my favorite old movies!

I loved this movie and I am so glad I bought it. I've bought quite a few older movies here on Amazon. I'm simply not impressed with what's mad these days. Too much woke preaching, not enough charm, and way too much vulgarity. Older movies are my favorites. Certainly anything with Doris Day, and I've even recently purchased a few movies with Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, just to mention a few of the classic actors who have recently become some of my favorites. I'm so glad I can find these treasures here on Amazon!

Any movie with Doris Day is worth seeing. She was one of America's greatest actresses.But there was another reason to see this movie: the participation of William Perlberg and George Seaton. They were responsible for two great war movies: The Counterfeit Traitor and the Bridges at Toko-Ri.This movie is a light hearted comedy. No guns or bullets but with a lot of sharp dialogue.Clark Gable plays a tough New York journalist who works for a tabloid. He's got no time for higher education or journalism schools. The way to learn is to learn is to do.Doris Day plays a journalism school professor. Gable enrols in the journalism course so that he can debunk her efforts.It's an amusing tale. Day, Gable and Gig Young all give excellent performances.This is more than just a movie about deception. Some serious topics are dealt with: can you teach journalism; should a newspaper not just report but seek to explain why; and what impact does environment have in creating a criminal ( poverty, racism). This is pretty good stuff for a film made in 1958.If I have a criticism, it is that Clark Gable was too old for the part. Perhaps Cary Grant would have been the better choice. Still, I enjoyed this movie.

Great romance. Clark GAble is excellent and so is Doris Day. Such good acting. I loved the scene with Gig Young and Clark Gable, so well acted and great dialogue. Highly recommend. I prefer older movies usually

This romantic comedy teaches real life lessons not to be missed. Be sure to always ask "why?" if someone calls you stupid, because they're probably right! Fantastic acting and convincingly realistic. Have a martini and sit back and enjoy!

"Teacher's Pet" is a deliciously funny look at journalism, and the clash between 'formal' education vs. practical experience, with higher learning championed by Doris Day, and the 'School of Hard Knocks' represented by the 'King', himself, Clark Gable. Despite an obvious age difference (Gable, at 57, was showing all of his years), the chemistry between the stars is electric, and with Oscar-nominated Gig Young providing terrific comic support as Gable's brilliant yet down-to-earth competition for Day, the film manages to be both witty and wise.With over a quarter century of playing newspapermen, the role of hard-boiled City Editor Jim Gannon fit Clark Gable like an old shoe. No-nonsense, pragmatic, and a workaholic, Gannon was the classic 'school drop-out' who learned the newspaper business from the ground up, and held college in contempt. While Gannon was obviously a dinosaur, even by 1950s' standards, Gable appears to be having a ball as the cigarette-smoking, plain-spoken, 'blue-collar' hero.Despite the constant "Will she or Won't she?" sexual undercurrent of so many of her best comedies of the fifties and early sixties, Doris Day was also a feminist during the era, with her characters self-sufficient, and often holding down important positions based on merit. As Erica Stone, an ex-reporter who returns to college to teach journalism, her demeanor is professional and her knowledge unimpeachable, making her the perfect foil for Gannon.While the descriptions of Gannon and Stone sound like formula characters for Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (not surprisingly, as the script was penned by longtime friends Fay and Michael Kanin), the Gable/Day teaming provides a sexual tension that, by the late 1950s, would have been far less apparent had Tracy and Hepburn taken the roles. Even at the twilight of his career, Gable was so totally 'male' that he raised the bar of any actress opposite him, with Day's signature 'perkiness' transformed, here, into sexual potential in a tight skirt (watch her tease Gable, swaying her hips to "The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll"; Day has never been sexier!)While the resolution is not surprising, some remarkably candid observations of what makes good print journalism are given by both Day and Gable, with Day's comment of television replacing newspapers as the public's source for breaking news remarkably farsighted in 1958!If you want a terrific comedy with two stars at the top of their game, look no further; "Teacher's Pet" delivers!

DESPITE THE NAME OF THE MOVIE AND THE WAY IT IS PROMOTED, IT IS NOT A TYPICAL ROM COM.IT HAS HUMOR, HUMILITY, ROMANCE, FLIRTING, INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY, HUMANITY, STIMULATING AND A LITTLE GRIT.GIG YOUNG IS INCOMPARABLE IN HIS OSCAR NOMINATED PERFORMANCE.IT IS AN OLD MEETS NEW MERGING: NEWSPAPER BUSINESS, MOVIE MAKING, OLDER MAN & YOUNGER WOMANI READ IN THE TRIVIA SECTION THAT SOME THOUGHT GABLE WAS MISCAST, CARY GRANT & JIMMY STEWART HAD TURNED IT DOWN. AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT GABLE & DAY WOULD NOT HAVE CHEMISTRY BUT AFTER SEEING IT I DISAGREED. GABLE WAS PERFECT IN HIS ROLE, CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE ELSE IN THE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY, HE FULLY IMBODIED A SEASONED NEWSPAPER MAN FINDING NEW PURPOSE.

Clark and Doris really have a great report with one another. You can enjoy the way she really hates the way the reporter thinks. She cuts his old- fationed thinking. To his face, not knowing that she is talking to him. He has her snowballed into thinking he is just a good student. She finally finds out and boy is she mad. This is really an enjoyable movie. Go ahead check it out.

Gosh! This is a super-duper film about journalism that just dips slightly towards the end. Jim Gannon (Clark Gable) a dyed-in-the-wool self taught successful journalist with little schooling. Erica Stone (Doris Day) a professor and teacher of journalistic skills. Jim has been invited to give a lecture to Erica's students. He replies with an unabridged letter as to what he actually thinks about journalism as a university subject. However, his editor insists that he goes and instructs Erica's pupils. When he arrives, he finds that Miss Stone is a blonde bombshell and doesn't introduce himself. Instead, he masquerades as one of her students, in fact, in no-time-at-all he becomes her star pupil. This deception goes on for most of the film. It is delightful, and engaging.These screen legends of yesteryear, never appeared in bad films, they were far more discerning than today's actors and actresses.The transfer to DVD is excellent.

Good plot, but I thought the film was a bit too long. Clark Gable looks pretty shook. Doris Day excellent, as usual.

Watching this film was like revisiting an old friend. Two brilliant starts, Day and Gable, striking sparks of one another in an enjoyable boy meets girl comedy of the old school.First seen by me at the cinema when it was released, this DVD is now a treasured possession.Entertainment par excellence.

One of Doris Day 's better movies

Clark Gable in a semi comedic role, very witty. Doris made me LoL when she staggered about after kissing her pupil the disguised journalist. Pity it was in black and white but enjoyable all the same.