Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

rogerperkins This is one of the best performances I have seen for Clark Gable and Doris Day. I felt they captured the lead characters versus playing themselves as is my opinion of so many of their other movie roles. I am neither a Gable or Day fan. So often, Gable seems to be playing the same person despite the movie or role. Many of the Day movies I have seen strike me in a very similar way, i.e. that Doris Day is just doing Doris Day again. The title and beginning music does not seem to fit the movie; the title and music gave me an incorrect impression of the movie, the title and music give the impression it is another teenage beach movie. So many familiar faces in the supporting cast; thought Dr. Hugo Pine was very well portrayed. Worth viewing despite its age and black and white format. Provided me additional insight in the Gable's and Day's acting talent. Refreshing to see them both as strong personalities.

yoshi_s_story This is a good comedy film. It needs as little as a couple of charismatic protagonists — one of which bearing a special allure, as Clark Gable inquestionably is —, a good quantity of moments and exchanges of words well able to provide amusement and even laugh, and that discreet pair of sadness and depth that, with its absence or presence, tells apart trivial productions from more meaningful works. Teacher's Pet exceeds the requirements for a good comedy, third cast member Gid Young offers a seriously noteworthy play performance, importantly enriching the enjoyment of the story.Light jokes, significant humour, whose back side frequently is bitter irony, add to very vivid black & white photography. Aesthetical prowess, brilliance in dialogue, are the shiny, fetching cover veiling a beautifully played beautiful drama.

John T. Ryan IT CAN BE a real problem in choosing acceptable roles for Stars as they get a little long in the tooth. The fact that their earlier, often most successful parts are captured forever on celluloid creates the fallacy deep I our minds that they somehow stay youthful forever. But, alas, it just isn't true. (This is, probably best dramatized, by Gloria Swanson's characterization of 'Norma Desmond' in Billy Wilder's Hollywood BOULEVARD.) MEANWHILE, BACK TO real life and today's disectee, TEACHER'S PET; which manages to give us an older Clark Gable, in a role that may stretch the age difference just a trifle; yet doesn't totally disregard a touch of reality. Co Star, Doris Day, who seemed to be making a career of portraying the eternal virgin, compliments Gable's performance in a very underplayed manner.AS A MATTER OF fact, we thought the two made for a quite interesting screen paring; pity that it wasn't done about ten years earlier; for it may well have spawned some other team-ups.CONCERNING THE STORYLINE, it is a variation on the mistaken or false identity plot. What starts out as an intentional deception on the part of Gable in attending Instructor Doris' college night school class, turns out to be the bane of his existence; as confirmed bachelor and (implied) womanizer, Clark develops a real interest in her.THE ADDITION OF another man (Gig Young's Dr. Hugo Pine) adds a little complication to the whole business; introducing the element of "the Eternal Triangle."AS A BACKDROP TO the romantic comedy plot, we have a sort of dramatization of the eternal conflict between formal education and what has been oft called, "the school of hard knocks", or more properly, practical experience. Gable's crusty Newspaper editor being experience and Miss Day's representing schooling.WITHOUT OUR GIVING away too much, we can say that in the 120 minutes of running time, Doris manages to sing the title song, Gig Young does a great inebriate routine and Clark smokes a pack of filter cigarettes; a very politically incorrect thing to do by today's standards.WE ALSO HAD a sort of coalescence of the two seemingly completely different ideas of experience vs. schooling, into two elements that are in a sense two sides of the same coin. In the process, we have the additional pleasure of seeing a happy ending; as if we didn't know it was coming all along! ONE ADDITIONAL ASPECT of the film is that we totally enjoyed its two hours and the time we spent in the kitchen chair watching it.

Spikeopath So yesterday afternoon i'm at home waiting for the telephone repair man to come and fix the dam phone, and i'm thinking there is no point starting a film if i'm to be interrupted half way thru. I flick thru the listings on British satellite and see something called Teacher's Pet, doesn't ring a bell {no phone pun intended}, i click on the info link and it tells me it stars Clark Gable & Doris Day, and the plot summary is a battle of the sexes romantic comedy set around Day's journalist teacher Erica Stone, against Gable's gruff rough and tough newspaper editor James Gannon, also starring Gig Young & Mamie Van Doren, and that Gig Young was nominated for best supporting actor.Still didn't ring any bells {ok the joke is wearing thin now}, so i figure i'll put it on safe in the knowledge that if i get interrupted it wont make a bit of difference since the film can't be any good on account of me not having heard of it before!. Well for the first time ever i was grateful for a service engineer for actually being late because it enabled me to watch this delightful comedy in its entirety. Gable & Day play off each other a treat as Gable goes undercover in Day's journalist class purely to under-mime her, he believes that you can't teach journalism, the only way to become a good journalist is with hard graft on job experience. The tension is evident from the off, but naturally things start to take a turn into the light hearted department as the pair get deeper into the picture.Some truly great comic moments to be found here with Gable showing a particularly rewarding arc in facial expressions, whilst Day is as bright as a button and as beautiful as she ever was. Yet as good as Gable & Day are together {big age difference a minor irritant}, it's Gig Young who walks away with the picture as Gable's potential love rival, his Dr. Hugo Pine is a man who is great at everything, dancing, bongo playing, writing many best selling books, and handsome to boot. Young has a lot of fun playing the character, and probably lays out the funniest portrayal of a man with a hangover ever, it's a wonderful effervescent performance.Teacher's Pet, a hugely enjoyable surprise of a movie 8/10, oh and the phone got fixed as well!.