everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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

Before "Teacher's Pet," most movies showed the press in unflattering ways. Not that it wasn't accurate, or deserving. The sensationalist press of the early 20th century seemed to relish its often exaggerated reporting of events. Indeed, it thrived on such fodder. But, this movie for the first time takes a serious look at the newspaper field. It does that with a comedy romance that stars Clark Gable and Doris Day. He was 57. She was 36. Both were big stars and major box office draws. They had never been matched together in a movie before. But they had a chemistry that works perfectly for this story. This isn't a comedy filled with antics and running dialog of humorous lines. Rather, it's a sophisticated comedy with satire that is built around the newspaper trade – or profession, depending on one's point of view. Watch this film and you'll get the drift about the differences in those two descriptions. Gable is James Gannon, a hard-bitten city news editor of a major New York City paper. He came up the hard way and learned the newspaper trade by experience. He was a first-rate reporter who knew how to write. He knew how to edit and lay out a paper. And he knew the business. Day is Erica Stone, a college instructor in journalism. She grew up in the business with her father who had run a weekly newspaper and won a Pulitzer Prize. She had some experience and she knew the business, including how to teach journalism. Both have prejudices, but Gannon's is the strongest and weakest. He looks down on the college-trained employee the paper has hired and he relegates him to handling obituaries. He doesn't think people can learn to write or to be reporters in a classroom. Stone sees the street-wise, informally trained writer as a thing of the past. The beauty of this story is how they each influence the other's opinions, and how they get one another to see other possibilities. Of course, this is done over time and frequent contact that blooms into romance. It has good humor spread throughout the lessons of journalism and reporting. Along with this, there is a mild love triangle that becomes the source of much of the humor. Gig Young plays Dr. Hugo Pine who is collaborating with Erica on a book. They are also dating, and that rankles Gannon just enough to get him to try to show up Pine. But, unfortunately, Pine's knowledge and abilities prove too much for him – until they resolve it with a drinking match. Pine and Gannon become friends over time. When Gannon has second thoughts about his abilities, due to lack of formal education, Pine reassures him that he hasn't suddenly become inept. Pine, "You're confusing education with schooling. Education is the acquisition of knowledge. Knowledge is knowing, familiarity gained by experiences. Wisdom is defined as 'the possession of experience and knowledge.' Now, being experienced, you therefore have education, you have knowledge and you have wisdom."While the conclusions in the lines of an actor in a movie might surely be challenged by many, Pine's philosophical speech says a lot. I have known highly educated people (some as friends) and people who didn't finish high school (some as friends). A few of the former were not the brightest or wisest people I have known, while some of the latter are among the wisest. In Gannon's case, he was well read and he studied and learned his profession (or trade) well. But, he didn't have a diploma that said he acquired his knowledge through formal education.Grade school through high school teachers generally must have formal degrees. Most young people wouldn't be able to teach just based on experience. And, formal education usually includes some psychology and training in people skills and in being able to identify learning problems. But, by the college level of teaching, many fields don't require formal degrees. People with many years of experience and self- learning can be far more expert and knowledgeable than someone who has just graduated from college right out of high school. Such people might be found in writing, languages, philosophy, inventions, and some of the physical sciences. Others describe some of the plot, but I think most viewers will enjoy the film more by not knowing too many of the details beforehand. This is an interesting and informative film, as well as a satire and very good comedy romance. The performances are superb by all, including the several editors, reporters and others in the city room of Gannon's paper. I worked many years as a writer, including several on newspapers. This movie is a good picture of journalism and the press of the mid-20th century.Edna Kovac (Vivian Nathan) says to Gannon, "I don't care what anybody says, I like you!" And he didn't even flinch. Well, I don't care what others say, I like this film.

A newspaper editor (Clark Gable) joins the class of a journalism professor (Doris Day) who despises him, and they begin to fall in love.Once upon a time, romantic comedies were actually fun and not just fluff. At least, that's what I like to believe to justify my watching the old ones. Doris Day, in particular, made for a great leading lady. Gig Young is fantastic here (no surprise on the Oscar nod), and Clark Gable is superb. Some say he is too old, but I think he's just fine.And I love that the film is black and white. I guess that was done to help mask Gable's age, but whatever the reason, it just makes the film look better. Especially looking back now (2016).

If you ask me - This badly dated, 1958, "adult" Comedy/Romance (whose story was, pretty much, just a one-note-joke about identity deception) was so insultingly predictable that, before long, I just couldn't find myself staying in the least bit interested in following its story's contrivances (that were meant to generate laughs) very closely, at all.Besides Teacher's Pet being way too long (at 120 minutes), I also found its 2, big-name stars, Doris Day (Hollywood's oldest virgin) and Clark Gable (pushing 60 years old) were both grossly miscast for their parts. To me, these 2 seriously lacked the essential chemistry needed to keep the floundering momentum of their trite, little on-screen romance going farther than beyond that of just a fizzle and a yawn.I mean, even that platinum-blond bombshell, Mamie Van Doren (yet another Marilyn Monroe clone), as nightclub performer, Peggy DeFore, doing her "The Girl Who Invented Rock'n'Roll" number, couldn't bring the likes of this decidedly "low-on-laughs" comedy to life.

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.