This movie reminded me of It Happened One Night and Love in the Afternoon...... It Happened because Clark Gable plays a newspaper man in a comedy (although Teachers Pet is a sex comedy and not screwball)....Love in the Afternoon because like the ageing Gary Cooper romances a young Audrey Hepburn and looks slightly out of place, so does Gable.
The script is quite good and funny. Clark Gable is a great and handsome actor and he's quite surly and funny in the night-club scene. But, for me the film didn't really click. There is NO chemistry between Gable and Day. There's just a plot which they are following. I'm sure anyone who read the script would have thought of a younger Clark Gable for the lead to re-capture the It Happened One Night. Instead they decided to settle for an ageing Clark Gable. Mistake....
I think this script deserved better direction as well. The spark just wasn't there. I don't want to be too harsh because the script is funny, the entire cast consists of good individual performances but something was missing. Even the scenes inside the newspaper office didn't have the spark and none of the performances gelled together. Too bad because this could have been a classic....
The script is quite good and funny. Clark Gable is a great and handsome actor and he's quite surly and funny in the night-club scene. But, for me the film didn't really click. There is NO chemistry between Gable and Day. There's just a plot which they are following. I'm sure anyone who read the script would have thought of a younger Clark Gable for the lead to re-capture the It Happened One Night. Instead they decided to settle for an ageing Clark Gable. Mistake....
I think this script deserved better direction as well. The spark just wasn't there. I don't want to be too harsh because the script is funny, the entire cast consists of good individual performances but something was missing. Even the scenes inside the newspaper office didn't have the spark and none of the performances gelled together. Too bad because this could have been a classic....