Teacher's Pet (1958)
The story is quite fun as Clark Gable's hard bitten newspaper editor enrolls for Doris Day's journalism class following a case of mistaken identity. Both Gable and Day are excellent and the story takes pleasure in pitting the ideas of learning journalism from a book and gaining experience in the firing line so to speak against each other with great effect.
Not as whimsical as many other movies Day shared with the likes of Rock Hudson and actually all the better for it. The screenplay is sharp, at least for the first ninety minutes, and Day and Gable spar well together but both are outshined by Gig Young (Whom i last saw a couple of weeks ago in The Shuttered Room) as Day's psychologist beau, and his intense hangover. I really felt for him.
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