A Masterpiece!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This movie was so good they remade it the very next year as Pillow Talk with the same femme lead Doris Day and the exact same plot - the Doris Day character, unseen, is a thorn in the side of the leading man who imagines a dry, unattractive spinster, and proceeds to unleash a vitriolic written/verbal attack on her. When, shortly afterwards, he sees her in the flesh, he decides to pursue her amorously under an assumed name; when he falls for her genuinely and decides to confess his deception he is thwarted by her own discovery of the truth. Naturally it all comes right in the end. In both movies there were three main roles, Day herself, a leading man, respectively Clark Gable and Rock Hundson, plus a third man, close to one or the other leads and well- supplied with both charm and humor; what Gig Young did for Teacher's Pet, Tony Randall did for Pillow Talk. Coming at the tail-end of the fifties, the last full decade of an ample supply of decent Hollywood movies able to take advantage of the highly efficient 'studio system' already unravelling, Teacher's Pet is a reminder of classic - 30s/40s - Hollywood and well up to snuff.

The film stars Clark Gable, Doris Day and one of my all-time favorites, Gig Young. Mamie Van Doren also appears in a very small role.I've seen Teacher's Pet four times since I bought it six weeks ago. Gig Young gives the films' funniest performance and got a well-deserved Oscarnomination for it. We see Clark Gable in one of his late roles and Day is as charming and conservative as ever. This movie, unlike so many other classic romantic/comedies, has a message. And a very important one at that. Each time you watch Teacher's Pet you find something more to laugh at and you really begin to understand and appreciate the wonderful performances.

A horrendously miscast Gable was way too OLD for this overlong, unfunny piece of garbage. He was close to retirement age and yet she was treating him like some young journalistic progidy, which made no sense at all. As if this awful casting wasn't enough to ruin the film, Gable had ZERO chemistry with the untalented Day and the film is far too long and boring. The only amusing moment comes in the nightclub scene, but even that is too long drawn out. In short - unfunny, overlong, badly dated, and only for old people. The film had to be filmed in black & white because Gable (who only got into movies by working as a rent boy) was so OLD and FAT - at least Cary Grant and James Stewart knew they were too OLD.0/10.

I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked this movie. I wasn't sure I would like Gable & Day together - that their age difference would be too awkward (she looked even younger than her 34 years and he was 58). But their chemistry worked. I like Doris much better when she isn't singing all the time - you get to really appreciate her acting skills!I especially liked the smart dialogue in places. The ongoing debate of experience vs. education. I thought the analogy of the conductor was beautiful (see quotes page). Also, the comparison that "Experience is the jockey - Education is the horse." The screenwriters certainly deserved their Oscar nod for this gem! I also was pleasantly surprised to see a young Marion Ross (Mrs. Cunningham on "Happy Days") in the role as Ms. Day's assistant.