A Masterpiece!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Clarke Gable and Doris Day lock horns in "Teacher's Pet" (1958), a romantic comedy by director George Seaton. Day plays Erica Stone, a professor who believes that journalism can be taught in schools, and that journalists should be intellectual types who investigate their subjects from a bevy of perspectives. Disagreeing with Stone is James Gannon (Clarke Gable), a renowned journalist who believes in street smarts, unpretentious writing and a willingness to pander to both market forces and the whims of the common man. The film quickly develops into a "battle-of-the-sexs" comedy, the mustachioed Clarke and the svelte Day bumping bodies and ideologies."Teacher's Pet" loses steam during its final act, and eventually starts repeating itself. For its first hour, though, this is nevertheless a cute comedy, competently directed by Seaton. It ends with Gannon and Stone begrudgingly accepting each other's point of view. Early scenes feature the infamous Mamie Van Doren as Pegggy DeFore, a nightclub singer.7/10 – Worth one viewing. See "In A Lonely Place", "His Girl Friday", "Sweet Smell of Success", and "Deadline" (1952)

The New York Evening Chronicle's City Editor James Gannon (Clark Gable) is a stubborn self-made journalist that has not even concluded high- school and believes that the business is to be learned working in a newspaper office and not in college. He also believes that the fact is important but not the why. When he is invited to be the guest lecturer in the night school journalism of E. Stone (Doris Day), he wrongly believes that she is a man and sends a non-polite letter to her explaining the reasons why he does not want to waste his time. However his boss Lloyd Crowley (Harry Antrim) gives direct orders to him to attend the class.Instructor Erica Stone reads Gannon's letter for the class and he pretends to be a student to humiliate her to her class. However, they feel both attracted by each other and Erica believes that Gannon has a great potential to be a journalist. When Erica dates the talented Dr. Hugo Pine (Gig Young), Gannon goes to the same restaurant and disputes Erica's attention with Dr. Pine. Gannon and Erica fall in love with each other, but how will Erica react when she learns that her student is the notorious Gannon? "Teacher's Pet" is one of the best romantic comedies I have ever seen, with an intelligent and witty story and wonderful performances, highlighting the chemistry between Clark Gable and Doris day. There are memorable scenes, like the duel between Gannon and Dr. Pine in the restaurant, and a great discussion between education and schooling. The moral in the end of the story is worthwhile. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): Not Available

Take what I said and think about it. Clark Gable already had 25+ years under his belt of doing standard and romantic comedies. He hasn't done many bad films. Take Doris Day and at this time it was the start of her power at the top of the box office. Mix those 2 together and you you get a wily veteran actor with a young beautiful actress who was made for film. The cap is the script is so good it just isn't fair to other romantic comedies.Clark Gable started off right outta the chute with "It Happened One Night" and it has since been hailed as the best romantic comedy ever. As much as much as I like that film it doesn't compare to this one. This one was polished to perfection.As for the plot, It doesn't get much simpler than an old curmudgeon of a newspaper editor gets invited to speak to a college class of budding reporters but he decides that as a reporter, you don't need college, you need experience. Enter Doris Day as the enthusiastic young teacher who loves Journalism. After reading his response to speak to her class she gets rather upset. He's forced to go the class anyhow by the owner of the paper. Whilst there, he decides to act as a student and show off how good his "non-college" experience is to her and the students. Through all he realizes that she actually has good ideas about newer Journalism and most of all, that he loves her....as she does him.You really must watch this gem of a film to get the idea of what I mean. It really is just a special film. Great script, great acting and casting....what more could you ask for?

This has the look and feel of a 1938 film. The anachronistic acting style is embarrassing. Since we know from The Misfits that Gable was a smart actor, the dialogs itself is witty, the fault must lie in the heavy-handed direction. It is surprising that George Seaton started in the mid 1940's. Look at Gable's gestures in the early scene in the class room. Awful. Doris Day, on the other hand, gave a very respectable performance. The relevance of the thematic conflict between the uneducated tradesman vs the educated professional lapsed in relevance in the post war GI bill era. In 1938 this movie would have been hip. By 1958 it is unintentionally funny.