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The Nutty Professor (1963) 6.7
To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love. Director:Jerry Lewis |
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Del Moore | ... | |
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Med Flory | ... | |
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Milton Frome | ... | |
| Buddy Lester | ... |
Bartender
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| Marvin Kaplan | ... |
English Student
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David Landfield | ... |
College Student
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Skip Ward | ... |
Football Player
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Julie Parrish | ... |
College Student
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Gibson, College Student
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Nerd. Milquetoast. Klutz. These are just three of the many undesirable words that can be used to describe Professor Julius Kelp. But all that changes when the chemistry expert invents a potion that transforms him into a suave, sexy chick magnet, whom Julius aptly names Buddy Love. Unfortunately, there's one side effect: Buddy can't control when he'll change back into Julius, an event that always happens at inopportune times. How will Julius/Buddy resolve his Jekyll-and-Hyde dilemma? Written by alfiehitchie
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Well, any scientist who makes a girl like this can't be all mad. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 June 1963 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El profesor chiflado See more »Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Stella Purdy: Are you all right, Professor?
Professor Julius Kelp: Oh yes, I... this is very embarrassing, Miss Purdy.
Stella Purdy: Why don't you call me Stella, Professor.
Professor Julius Kelp: Oh, I thought it was Stella Purdy. Oh, you mean to call you Stella. Yes. How stupid of me. Sorry. All right, I will, stupid. Uh, Stella.
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(uncredited)
Music by Johannes Brahms
Played when Professor Kelp is shown lying in bed
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Before Buddy Love starts playing the piano in his first scene at the Purple Pit, he sets down his cigarette. During his song the cigarette is nearly finished burning, but after the song, he picks it back up and it's nearly whole. See more »Quotes
Professor Julius Kelp: [after being helped off the shelf of a closet] Thank you, Miss Purdy.Stella Purdy: Are you all right, Professor?
Professor Julius Kelp: Oh yes, I... this is very embarrassing, Miss Purdy.
Stella Purdy: Why don't you call me Stella, Professor.
Professor Julius Kelp: Oh, I thought it was Stella Purdy. Oh, you mean to call you Stella. Yes. How stupid of me. Sorry. All right, I will, stupid. Uh, Stella.
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Crazy Credits
False ending which first displays, "That's all, folks!!" then inserts a NOT in between "that's" and "all," then a 5-minute story epilogue goes to the actual ending, which is credited as "The beginning." The actor credits are done as curtain calls, with each performer bowing behind their name. See more »Soundtracks
Lullaby(uncredited)
Music by Johannes Brahms
Played when Professor Kelp is shown lying in bed
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Further to my earlier review, I would wholeheartedly endorse the opinion of other reviewers that the original Lewis movie is superior - vastly superior
- to the crass Eddie Murphy re-make. Lewis's subtle points about Buddy Love
(whom, I am unsurprised to learn, he loathed) are utterly lost in the Murphy version. If Lewis's movie fails as popular entertainment, it is because it makes extraordinary intellectual demands on its audience, requiring them to see beyond the surface glamour of Buddy Love to the moral rottenness and egotism within. Strangely enough, however, Buddy Love is not without pathos. There is enough of Kelp in him, together with the shakiness of his chemically-induced persona, to lend a faint suggestion of vulnerability. Perhaps even this is part of his satanic charm (he literally charms the pants off the college Principal). It is no coincidence that his calling-card number is "That Old Black Magic"!