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TCM did a Clark Gable marathon some time back. They got me. I found a
movie I'd never seen before, Teacher's Pet with Gable and Doris Day.

I was impressed with the performances. I wasn't expecting Day to pull
off a college instructor for a night school journalism class and
intellectual. She convinced me. Gable was excellent as always.

Gig Young gave an excellent comic turn, even got a Best Supporting Actor nomination. Of course, what wasn't funny was a sequence getting his
character very drunk indeed, considering he was a terrible alchoholic in
real life which led to his death.

The movie is said to have been filmed in B&W to hide Gable's age, which
was ridiculous. Everyone knew he'd been around since early talkies and
even had uncredited bit parts throughout the silent era, and that he was
two and a half decades older than Day. The part was slightly rewritten
for an older actor, but it didn't matter.

The performances were entertaining and Gable could do comedy.

The script by wife and husband Fay and Michael (older brother of Garson)
Kanin was decent, although near the end, Gable gives a rant about the folksiness of small-town newspapers and completely gets wrong the
business model, very different than a big-city paper.

Day's character, we will learn later, is the daughter of a Pulitzer
Prize winning publisher of said small-town paper. The Pulitzer was for
an editorial. Her father had been a friend of Gable's publisher. Gable
wrote a nasty letter to Day about how the only way to learn reporting is experience, not coursework and Gable ends up attending class. When he
sees that she looks like, well, Day in her 30s, who is costumed by Edith
Head in form-fitting suits that show off her backside, Gable is in lust
and gives a phony name to attend class. Teacher is shocked that he's
able to write like a well-seasoned reporter and, later in the movie, the
big reveal is that she's trying to get him a job with his own publisher.

Platinum blonde bombshell (did you know she's still alive?) Mamie Van
Doren shows up as a nightclub singer, friend of Gable's, who performs
what is essentially a burlesque routine, sexy and amusing.

Early performances by Marion Ross and Jack Albertson. Charles Lane, who
would live to be 102 with 400 or more performances, is an editor. Nick
Adams (Johnny Yuma but I've never seen The Rebel tv series) and Peter
Baldwin are novices.

Script started off as a drama but the Kanins couldn't sell it till they
added some comedy. Alas, the directing needed to keep the pacing up in a
lot of the scenes, so the movie isn't as good as it could have been. The editorial office set is said to be a recreation of the New York World
Telegram and Sun and the Telegram's city editor consulted.
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

TCM did a Clark Gable marathon some time back.

I recorded a bunch of these, but never got to see any of them because the
DVR doesnrCOt work without an incoming signal and I havenrCOt had one since the Haboob.


They got me. I found a

movie I'd never seen before, Teacher's Pet with Gable and Doris Day.

This is the movie the Guardian of Forever had to ensure that sister Edith Keeler was run down by a lumber and beer truck otherwise she would have prevented the US entry into Vietnam.

I was impressed with the performances. I wasn't expecting Day to pull
off a college instructor for a night school journalism class and intellectual. She convinced me. Gable was excellent as always.

Gig Young gave an excellent comic turn, even got a Best Supporting Actor nomination. Of course, what wasn't funny was a sequence getting his
character very drunk indeed, considering he was a terrible alchoholic in
real life which led to his death.

The movie is said to have been filmed in B&W to hide Gable's age, which
was ridiculous. Everyone knew he'd been around since early talkies and
even had uncredited bit parts throughout the silent era, and that he was
two and a half decades older than Day. The part was slightly rewritten
for an older actor, but it didn't matter.

The performances were entertaining and Gable could do comedy.

The script by wife and husband Fay and Michael (older brother of Garson) Kanin was decent, although near the end, Gable gives a rant about the folksiness of small-town newspapers and completely gets wrong the
business model, very different than a big-city paper.

Day's character, we will learn later, is the daughter of a Pulitzer
Prize winning publisher of said small-town paper. The Pulitzer was for
an editorial. Her father had been a friend of Gable's publisher. Gable
wrote a nasty letter to Day about how the only way to learn reporting is experience, not coursework and Gable ends up attending class. When he
sees that she looks like, well, Day in her 30s, who is costumed by Edith
Head in form-fitting suits that show off her backside, Gable is in lust
and gives a phony name to attend class. Teacher is shocked that he's
able to write like a well-seasoned reporter and, later in the movie, the
big reveal is that she's trying to get him a job with his own publisher.

Platinum blonde bombshell (did you know she's still alive?) Mamie Van
Doren shows up as a nightclub singer, friend of Gable's, who performs
what is essentially a burlesque routine, sexy and amusing.

Early performances by Marion Ross

Was she ever entertaining? One of the last things I saw before I lost cable forever had her when she was so young that I wouldnrCOt even have noticed her if I hadnrCOt seen her name in the credits and she was never more than
tedious.

and Jack Albertson. Charles Lane, who

would live to be 102 with 400 or more performances, is an editor. Nick
Adams (Johnny Yuma but I've never seen The Rebel tv series)

Imagine Chuck Connors in Branded except in black-and-white.

and Peter

Baldwin are novices.

Script started off as a drama but the Kanins couldn't sell it till they
added some comedy. Alas, the directing needed to keep the pacing up in a
lot of the scenes, so the movie isn't as good as it could have been. The editorial office set is said to be a recreation of the New York World Telegram and Sun and the Telegram's city editor consulted.

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