Teacher's Pet (1958) coming from Kino

[whiteberry]

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

Brand New HD Restoration by Paramount Pictures – From 6K Scans of the 35mm Original Camera Negative!

Teacher’s Pet (1958) Starring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gid Young, Mamie Van Doren, Marion Ross & Charles Lane – Shot by Haskell B. Boggs (The Bellboy) – Screenplay by Fay Kanin (The Opposite Sex) & Michael Kanin (Woman of the Year) – Directed by George Seaton (Miracle of 34th Street, The Country Girl, Airport).

Original Trailer:

TEACHER'S PET [1958 TRAILER] - YouTube

VHS Trailer:

Teacher's Pet Trailer 1958 - YouTube

[whiteberry]

This is yet another Paramount movie that has never been released in the correct aspect ratio. It should be 2:1 as seen in the Boxoffice magazine review:


https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/vi...ce-march241958

Hopefully Kino will be the first to get the aspect ratio right but I'm not holding my breath because it looks like The Country Girl won't be in the correct aspect ratio yet again:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...1#post22115951

[milojthatch]

More Clark Gable is always a great thing! I'm excited to pick this one up.

[Jobla]

More Mamie Van Doren is always a great thing. I'm excited to pick this one up.

[whiteberry]

Modern Screen Magazine advertisement (April 1958):



Photoplay Magazine advertisement (April 1958):



https://vintoz.com/blogs/vintage-mov...s/teachers-pet

[dsfan1]

Day 1 for me! I've requested this movie from Kino a few times. Glad its finally being released on Blu-ray. Hopefully more Doris Day will be on the way!

[whiteberry]

Songs (all written by Joe Lubin):

1. Doris Day - Teacher's Pet
   
   It is heard during the opening credits. One of my favorite Doris Day songs.
   
   1958 HITS ARCHIVE: Teacher’s Pet - Doris Day - YouTube
   
   
2. Joe Lubin - Teacher's Pet Mambo
   
   I can't find a clip of it on YouTube. It is heard when Doris Day and Clark Gable dance at the Bongo Club: "It's the mambo!"
   
   
3. Mamie Van Doren - The Girl Who Invented Rock 'N' Roll
   
   Mamie performs it at the Bongo Club.
   
   The Girl Who Invented Rock n' Roll - YouTube

The following Joe Lubin obituary gives some background on the writing of the songs:

Still wanting to write for films, in 1958 Lubin set his sights on Doris Day.

I wanted to meet Marty Melcher, Doris Day's husband and manager and the toughest man alive. I gatecrashed his office and talked as fast as I could, not showing any weaknesses. He said he needed a novelty song and, there and then, I sang one. He liked it and said that Doris would record it next week.

I felt he was playing games with me so, pushing my luck, I said I'd like to submit the songs, if any, for the next Doris Day movie. He said they would be starting one soon and they would need three songs, but he didn't give me the script.

Lubin went outside and waited in his car until he saw Melcher leave.

I went into the office again and said, very confidently, that Marty had asked me to find a script for him. There it was, in front of my eyes: Teacher's Pet with Doris Day and Clark Gable. I called my wife and told her I'd be home late and started to read it. My home was four miles away from Marty's office and by the time I got home, I'd written a first draft of the title song and also "The Girl Who Invented Rock'n'Roll", which was sung by Mamie Van Doren.

I stayed up all night and finished a third song, "Teacher's Pet Mambo", for a comedy sequence in which Clark Gable is too clumsy to dance with Doris Day. The next morning, dog-tired, and to Marty's surprise, I took them in to him.

Melcher used Lubin's songs and he wrote several more songs for Day, including the title songs for Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960), Move Over Darling (1964) and The Glass Bottom Boat (1966).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/o...n-9194136.html

[The-Cinema-Upstairs]

Originally Posted by dsfan1

Day 1 for me! I've requested this movie from Kino a few times. Glad its finally being released on Blu-ray. Hopefully more Doris Day will be on the way!

AGREE!!

IT HAPPENED TO JANE with Jack Lemmon and Doris Day is another Paramount film in desperate need of a HD upgrade. Really hoping to see that one released in the near future.

[jonmayo15]

Originally Posted by The-Cinema-Upstairs

AGREE!!

IT HAPPENED TO JANE with Jack Lemmon and Doris Day is another Paramount film in desperate need of a HD upgrade. Really hoping to see that one released in the near future.

That's a Columbia film owned by Sony.

[whiteberry]

It Happened To Jane was released on blu-ray in Germany:



It's region B and uses an ancient HD master that was probably created for the 2005 DVD.

[Shane Rollins]

Day One. Anything VistaVision is an instant buy for me. I could probably reconstruct 2:1 on my TV too (mainly a matte made with black paper and tape, been doing it for years). Or at least do multiple ratios (like they did on Invasion Of The Body Snatchers).

Originally Posted by whiteberry

This is yet another Paramount movie that has never been released in the correct aspect ratio. It should be 2:1 as seen in the Boxoffice magazine review:

[Show spoiler]

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/vi...ce-march241958

Hopefully Kino will be the first to get the aspect ratio right but I'm not holding my breath because it looks like The Country Girl won't be in the correct aspect ratio yet again:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...1#post22115951

But as KL said on Twitter, "When have we ever gotten an aspect ratio wrong?"

[UnionJackMix]

Why wasn't this featured on the main page as a news item? We see some, frankly, garbage on there, and this movie, albeit minor but with two of the biggest Hollywood Legends and Box Office stars, didn't?
Thankgod I look at the release schedule closely, I would have missed it otherwise.

[All Darc]

Uahunn... Looks impressive :

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/scree...135&position=8

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/scree...135&position=2

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/scree...35&position=11


After all Vistasion it's like 70mm, use a larger area of 35mm film, and large lenses, giving that 70mm feeling and resolution.




The image have so much depth, definition, that if you close one eyes and look with the other you will get a 3D feeling.

Not sure if you know, but a 2D image when watched with 2 eyes reinforce that it's 2D, but when watched with a single eyes it tricks the brain to interpret it more like 3D.

[RetroRobert]

Watched this last night and all I can say is WOW! From memory, this is the best BD I have ever seen. It's absolutely beautiful. This should be the blueprint for how a restoration is done.

While we're on the subject of Doris Day, I'm wondering why the family-favorite "With Six You Get Eggroll" has been neglected a BD release. It's Paramount so it has at least 3 different ways to get on BD. So far, Paramount hasn't released it themselves. I thought for sure it would show up on their Paramount Presents label. KL hasn't jumped on it yet. And then there is Australia's Via Vision who I'm sure would have jumped at the chance. Yet, it remains unreleased. And, correct me if I'm wrong but, isn't it the only Paramount-owned film of Doris that has yet to be released on BD?

[octobercountry]

My goodness, it must be a few decades since I last viewed 1958's Teacher's Pet. This is one of only a few pictures from Doris Day's complete filmography that is not in frequent rotation on TCM---perhaps the station doesn't have the broadcast rights---and so it's one that I haven't had the opportunity to view often. So, I was glad to give it another go.

Here we have Doris in another of her comic "mistaken identity" plots; she does seem to have made a number of these! Of course it all began with her very first film Romance on the High Seas, and would continue with the films she did with Rock Hudson a few years after Teacher's Pet. This film, however, is a bit more high-minded than the outings with Hudson. It's a very intelligent script, less broadly comic than the Day/Hudson films, which touches lightly on some social issues as well as the role of the press in modern-day America.

I had to roll my eyes a bit at that old Hollywood staple: an obligatory romance between an attractive young woman and a man old enough to be her father or even her grandfather. How many films feature this set-up? I can't help but think it may be a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the scriptwriters who write these sorts of films, though I suppose it could be said that most women would fall for Clark Gable, no matter his age. Here, though, Gable is in pretty rough shape; much the worse for wear, with a noticeable tremor in his hands in many scenes. He's 21 years older than Doris, but looks much older than even that. Still, I suppose I'm the wrong one to be opining on the appeal of Gable; I never could see him as a sex symbol, even in his prime.

Picture quality on the blu-ray is truly excellent, as would be expected from a scan of a larger-format VistaVision negative. Though you have to wonder, why was this made in VistaVision in the first place? A black-and-white film, shot entirely on modest, mundane indoor sets is hardly the sort of picture to show off the advantages of the format. Standard 35mm would surely have been sufficient for this film---though of course I'm happy they did choose to go with the higher quality. I'm only sorry this didn't get a 4k disc release, so that we could have seen just how detailed the image truly is.

The commentary track by Julie Kirgo and Peter Hankoff is good. It's fun to hear people so enthusiastic about classic films talk about them; you never know where the conversation will lead. I always enjoyed the tracks Julie did with husband Nick Redman (sad that he passed much too young).

So, a definite recommendation. For me, this may not have quite the replay value of the broader comedies Day made in the years 1959-1964, but it's well worth watching and I daresay any Doris Day fan will want to add it to their library.

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by octobercountry

I had to roll my eyes a bit at that old Hollywood staple: an obligatory romance between an attractive young woman and a man old enough to be her father or even her grandfather. How many films feature this set-up? I can't help but think it may be a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the scriptwriters who write these sorts of films, though I suppose it could be said that most women would fall for Clark Gable, no matter his age. Here, though, Gable is in pretty rough shape; much the worse for wear, with a noticeable tremor in his hands in many scenes. He's 21 years older than Doris, but looks much older than even that. Still, I suppose I'm the wrong one to be opining on the appeal of Gable; I never could see him as a sex symbol, even in his prime.

I don't disagree with you, however hindsight is also 20/20. I think what the issue was was that the Golden Age of Hollywood stars found themselves in a strange place the first few generations of movie stars didn't, or at least in the same way: How do you keep your shtick up many decades past your prime?

The Golden Age stars really were the generation of Hollywood movie stars that firmly established what it means to be old in Hollywood. The females and the male sort of went different directions. Whereas female stars like Barbara Stanwyck or Lucile Ball realized there were better opportunities in their older age on television, leading men like Clark Gable or Cary Grant took a while to figure out that they were old and their days of being a leading man was kind of over. It could be argued that Gable never actually got that memo, he just died and that was it. To his credit, Grant finally did figure this out after filming "Walk, Don't Run."

Then of course there was Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, who were basically a couple and preferred to co-star with each other and eventually, shift into more of a supporting role like in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." I'm not fully against all of the old men as lead men though. I'm a big fan of some of John Wayne's latter westerns (so much love for "The Cowboys") and James Stewart was fantastic in "Bandolero!" as some examples. Glenn Ford finally figured it out and was fantastic as a supporting cast in "Superman." Possibly the best Pa Kent ever. So, mileage varied.

[HDTV1080P]

A 6K scan of the 35mm negative should mean that in the ideal world one day this movie should get a 4K Blu-ray disc release instead of only a 2K Blu-ray disc (40.1GB).