the girl who invented rock and roll
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Album:Teacher's Pet
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Track:The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll
"Teacher's Pet" is one of those contrived late '50s comedies where a older guy (Clark Gable) puts the moves on a younger woman (Doris Day), while pretending to be someone he isn't. In 1958, Gable was 57 and Day was 34, but the age difference isn't as bothersome as Gable's discomfort in the role: his main comic expression is a peeved wince. Although the movie is in black and white, and doesn't have the sheen of the Day-Rock Hudson comedies, it's obviously a precursor to those films in the way false identity, and the predictable complications, paves the way to romance.The audio is Doris Day singing the title song, also done memorably by Parker Posey as her musical audition selection in "Waiting For Guffman."The film is on TCM right now, and I just watched the scene where Gable intrudes on a date Day is having with her boyfriend, the casually funny Gig Young. They're at a nightclub, and Gable is in a booth with Mamie Van Doren. Mamie shimmys away, and proceeds to perform the song "The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll."
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