Fay and Michael Kanin's somewhat implausible screenplay was nominated for an Oscar and enquires 'is journalism best learned at school or on the job?' - and doesn't satisfactorily answer that question, either.
Clark Gable is the seasoned hack who undercover joins professor Doris Day's journalism class. Gig Young is the seemingly perfect love rival, who turns out not to be but a useful confidant (he also was Oscar nominated). It's quite fun, especially in nightclub scene, where Mamie Van Doren's navel is still unexposed (things changed in 1962 with Marilyn Monroe in Something's Got to Give and Ursula Andress in Dr. No. Actually there's a sneaky one in the Psycho shower scene too.) Mamie's only there for a bit of nix verboten and so Doris can take the musical piss out of her later.
Music by Roy Webb, photographed by someone called Haskell Boggs. For Paramount.
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