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Although fans of Hollywood romantic comedy often tend to fixate on the 1930s and '40s as the Golden Era of this genre, the '50s also have a lot to offer – particularly the unfairly maligned oeuvre of Doris Day. This terrific film plays out a complicated game of social and personal differences between Day as a bookish journalism teacher and Clark Gable, hard-bitten newspaper editor from the School of Hard Knocks. Full of revelations and reversals, it contains a particularly wonderful scene involving Day's refined boyfriend Gig Young and his relation to supposedly primitive black music. © Adrian Martin December 1992 |
