Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet (1958): Clark Gable, Doris Day, Mamie Van Doren - PopMatters Film Review

In the late 1950s, thanks to the GI bill, a college education could lead up the corporate ladder. Also unexpectedly, the film casts this tension against a New York City backdrop, and displays a gritty social conscience, much like the previous year's /12 Angry Men/, with which it also shares an affection for craggy white male faces, such as Clark Gable's. He plays hardboiled Manhattan newspaper editor Frank Gannon, who never graduated high school and subsequently thinks college is a lot of baloney. When asked to give a guest lecture at a continuing adult education college, he responds with a venomous letter asserting that one can't teach journalism; college, he writes, is just "amateurs teaching amateurs how to be amateurs." But his boss twists his arm, so away he goes.