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Professor | Romantic Comedy
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Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1961
Best Written American Comedy | 1961
Budget 1,775,000 USD
Box Office Collection 5,150,000 USD
The musical number Kate rehearses for the amateur show, "Any Way The Wind Blows," had been written for Doris Day's previous film Pillow Talk (1959). The song title was, for a while, even the working title of that film.
In an early example of product placement, Quaker Oats is featured prominently in the film due to a cross promotion with the producers. In a national ad campaign, Quaker offered children under 12 free admission to the movie if accompanied by an adult. Each "specially marked" box of Quaker Oats contained an "MGM ticket" good for one child's admission when accompanied by someone over the age of 12 paying adult admission prices. The April 18, 1960 issue of Life magazine features a full page ad (page 18) on the promotion, and can be found on Google Books.
Beginning her feature-film career portraying Katharine Hepburn's mother in Little Women (1933), Spring Byington closed her movie years playing Doris Day's mother in this film. She would go on to work in television, most notably as Aunt Daisy Cooper on Laramie (1959).
This was one of several projects in which Doris Day performs her signature song "Que Sera Sera" from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Here she sings a verse from "Que Sera Sera" to David Mackay in an Italian restaurant.
This same source material was later the basis of a sitcom with the same title that ran for two seasons on NBC in the mid-60s.
"Alfred North: For a critic that first step is the first printed joke. It gets a laugh and a whole new world opens up. He makes another joke, and another. And then one day along comes a joke that shouldn't be made because the show he's reviewing is a good show. But, as it so happens, it's a good joke. And you know what? The joke wins."
"Laurence Mackay: There are interesting failures. There are prestige failures, and there are financial failures, but this is the sort of failure that gives failures a bad name."
