The Nutty Professor - wikipedia The Nutty Professor Not to be confused with The Absent - Minded Professor. For the 1996 remake starring Eddie Murphy, see The Nutty Professor ( 1996 film ). For the 2008 animated sequel, see The Nutty Professor ( 2008 film ). The Nutty Professor Original theatrical poster Directed by Jerry Lewis Produced by Ernest D. Glucksman Arthur P. Schmidt Jerry Lewis Screenplay by Jerry Lewis Bill Richmond Based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Starring Jerry Lewis Stella Stevens Del Moore Kathleen Freeman Music by Walter Scharf Les Brown and His Band of Renown Cinematography W. Wallace Kelley Edited by John Woodcock Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date June 4, 1963 ( 1963 - 06 - 04 ) Running time 107 minutes Country United States Language English Box office est. $3.5 million ( rentals ) 1,956,744 admissions ( France ) The Nutty Professor is a 1963 American science fiction - romantic comedy film produced, directed, co-written ( with Bill Richmond ) and starring Jerry Lewis. The score was composed by Walter Scharf. The film is a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 2004, The Nutty Professor was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ''. It is largely considered to be Lewis 's finest and most memorable film. In 1996, a remake starring Eddie Murphy and Jada Pinkett - Smith was released, directed by Tom Shadyac. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Professor Kelp / Buddy Love character 3.2 Home video 4 Awards and honors 5 Home media 6 Animated sequel 7 Musical adaptation 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Plot Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck - toothed, accident - prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football - playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to `` beef up '' by joining a local gym. Kelp 's lack of physical strength prompts him to invent a serum that turns him into the handsome, suave, charming and cheeky girl - chasing hipster, Buddy Love. This new personality gives him the self - confidence to pursue one of his students, Stella Purdy. Although she resents Love, she finds herself strangely attracted to him. Buddy wows the crowd with his jazzy, breezy musical delivery and poised demeanor at the Purple Pit, a nightclub where the students hang out. He also mocks a bartender and waitress and punches a student. The formula wears off at inopportune times, often to Kelp 's humiliation. Although Kelp knows that his alternate persona is a bad person, he can not prevent himself from continually taking the formula as he enjoys the attention that Love receives. As Buddy performs at the annual student dance the formula starts to wear off. His real identity now revealed, Kelp gives an impassioned speech, admitting his mistakes and seeking forgiveness. Kelp says that the one thing he learned from being someone else is that if you do n't like yourself, you ca n't expect others to like you. Purdy meets Kelp backstage, and confesses that she prefers Kelp over Buddy Love. Eventually, Kelp 's formerly timid father chooses to market the formula ( a copy of which Kelp had sent to his parents ' home for safekeeping ), endorsed by the deadpan president of the university who proclaims, `` It 's a gasser ! '' Kelp 's father makes a pitch to the chemistry class, and the students all rush forward to buy the new tonic. In the confusion Kelp and Purdy slip out of the class. Armed with a marriage license and two bottles of the formula, they elope. During the short closing credits, each of the characters come out and bow down to the camera, and when Jerry Lewis, still portraying Kelp, comes out and bows, he trips and goes into the camera, breaking it and causing the picture to go black. Cast Jerry Lewis as Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp Stella Stevens as Ms. Stella Purdy Del Moore as Dr. Mortimer S. Warfield Kathleen Freeman as Ms. Millie Lemmon Howard Morris as Mr. Elmer Kelp Elvia Allman as Mrs. Edwina Kelp Julie Parrish as College Student Milton Frome as Dr. M. Sheppard Leevee Buddy Lester as Bartender Med Flory as Warzewski, the football player Production The entire production was filmed from October 9 to December 17, 1962, mostly on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The cast 's costumes were designed by Edith Head. Les Brown and his Band of Renown play themselves in the extended senior prom scenes. Walter Scharf 's score makes extensive use of the Victor Young jazz standard Stella by Starlight including an upbeat version over the film 's main titles. Paramount was the copyright holder of the theme from its original appearance in The Uninvited ( 1944 ). Love instructs the bartender to make an Alaskan Polar Bear Heater, `` mix it nice '' and pour it into a tall glass. The bartender asks if he can take a sip ; after doing so, he freezes like a statue. While the drink started as fictional, it is now listed on some cocktail websites. Professor Kelp / Buddy Love character The basic characterization of Julius Kelp was a Lewis staple, having appeared earlier in 1958 's Rock - A-Bye Baby, and basically identical characters would appear in 1965 's The Family Jewels and 1967 's The Big Mouth. Buddy Love is often interpreted as a lampoon of Lewis ' former show business partner Dean Martin. Lewis, however, has consistently denied this. In his 1982 autobiography and again in a DVD featurette entitled The Nutty Professor : Making The Formula, Lewis stated that the character was based on every obnoxious self - important hateful hipster he ever knew. In the DVD commentary, Lewis speculates that he perhaps should have made Love more evil -- since to his surprise more fan mail came for Love than for the professor. Film critic Danny Peary has made the claim in his 1981 book Cult Movies that the character of Love is actually the real counterpart of Jerry Lewis. Lewis has stated that the two represented good and evil. The character of Professor Frink from the animated television series The Simpsons loosely borrows much of his mannerisms and technique from Lewis ' delivery of the Julius Kelp character, as well as the transition to a Buddy Love version of Frink in several episodes. In one episode, the character of Frink 's father was voiced by guest star Lewis. Home video The DVD of the film contains a long deleted scene in which Kelp 's love interest is portrayed as a sultry siren whose choreographed, jaw - dropping entrance to the Purple Pit, accompanied by jazz music, contrasts with the final edit in which she is portrayed as smart but fairly unassuming. Awards and honors In 2000, the American Film Institute placed the film on its 100 Years... 100 Laughs list, where it was ranked # 99. Home media The Nutty Professor was released on DVD in October 2000. In October 2004, a `` Special Edition '' was released including an audio commentary by Lewis and Steve Lawrence, a documentary and a short feature. In the commentary, Lewis discusses aspects of production, including his creating a real - time, on - camera monitor, which subsequently became standard in the film industry. He mentions that he recut the film for his own home viewing. He also identifies scenes that he would have liked to redo ; for example, making the professor 's watch sound tinny. Animated sequel An animated direct - to - DVD sequel, also titled The Nutty Professor, featured the voices of Lewis and Drake Bell and was released on November 25, 2008. Directed by Paul Taylor, the film involves Julius Kelp 's teenage grandson Harold discovering his grandfather 's secret formula and unleashing his alter ego. Lewis had for decades talked about doing a sequel and until then had to settle for the 1996 remake starring Eddie Murphy, for which Lewis was credited as a producer. The 1996 version did produce a sequel of its own : Nutty Professor II : The Klumps. Musical adaptation A musical theater version premiered at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville from July 31 - August 19, 2012, based on a book by Rupert Holmes and with a score by Marvin Hamlisch. The production was directed by Jerry Lewis, with choreography by Joann M. Hunter. The cast featured Michael Andrew, Klea Blackhurst, Mark Jacoby and Marissa McGowan. The scenery was by David Gallo, with costume design by Ann Hould - Ward. See also List of American films of 1963 References Jump up ^ `` THE NUTTY PROFESSOR ( U ) ''. British Board of Film Classification. June 18, 1963. Retrieved November 16, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Top Rental Films of 1963 '', Variety, 8 January 1964, pg 37. Jump up ^ Box office information for film in France at Box Office story Jump up ^ `` The Celluloid Pantry ''. Jump up ^ `` Cherry Capri 's Cocktail Recipes ''. Jump up ^ `` Alaskan Polar Bear Heater ''. Jump up ^ The Nutty Professor, Special Edition, commentary. Jump up ^ `` AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Laughs '' ( PDF ). American Film Institute. Retrieved August 28, 2016. Jump up ^ Jones, Kenneth. `` Producers of Nutty Professor Hope to Earn Broadway Tenure for New Marvin Hamlisch - Rupert Holmes Show '' Archived August 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., Playbill, August 17, 2012, accessed August 19, 2013 Jump up ^ Ng, David ( 2012 - 08 - 02 ). `` Jerry Lewis ' ' Nutty Professor ' musical opens in Nashville ''. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 August 2013. Jerry Lewis : In Person with Herb Gluck. New York : Atheneum, 1982, ISBN 0 - 689 - 11290 - 4 External links 1960s portal The Nutty Professor on IMDb The Nutty Professor at the TCM Movie Database The Nutty Professor at Rotten Tomatoes The Nutty Professor Films The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ) The Nutty Professor ( 1996 ) Nutty Professor II : The Klumps ( 2000 ) The Nutty Professor ( 2008 ) Characters Sherman Klump Robert Louis Stevenson 's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Character Adaptations Films Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1908 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1912 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1913 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ) The Head of Janus ( 1920 ) Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde ( 1925 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1941 ) The Son of Dr. Jekyll ( 1951 ) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1953 ) The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll ( 1957 ) The Doctor 's Horrible Experiment ( 1959 ) The Ugly Duckling ( 1959 ) My Friend, Dr. Jekyll ( 1960 ) The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll ( 1960 ) The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ) Karutha Rathrikal ( 1967 ) Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde ( 1971 ) I, Monster ( 1971 ) Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo ( 1972 ) Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde ( 1976 ) Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot ( 1979 ) Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype ( 1980 ) Docteur Jekyll et les femmes ( 1981 ) Chehre Pe Chehra ( 1981 ) Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again ( 1982 ) Edge of Sanity ( 1989 ) Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde ( 1995 ) Mary Reilly ( 1996 ) The Nutty Professor ( 1996 ) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 2003 ) Van Helsing ( 2004 ) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 2006 ) The Mummy ( 2017 ) Animation The Impatient Patient ( 1942 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse ( 1947 ) Motor Mania ( 1950 ) Dr. Jerkyl 's Hide ( 1954 ) Hyde and Hare ( 1955 ) Hyde and Go Tweet ( 1960 ) Mad Monster Party ? ( 1967 ) Mad Mad Mad Monsters ( 1972 ) The Pagemaster ( 1994 ) The Strange Case of Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly ( 2004 ) Van Helsing : The London Assignment ( 2004 ) The Monster of Phineas - n - Ferbenstein ( 2008 ) Hotel Transylvania ( 2012 ) Video games Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1988 ) Jekyll and Hyde ( 2001 ) Van Helsing ( 2004 ) Music `` Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive '' ( 1983 ) `` Bubba Hyde '' ( 1995 ) Jekyll and Hyde ( 2003 ) Jekyll & Hyde en Español ( 2004 ) Theatre Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1887 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1888 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis - Spent Life ( 1897 ) Jekyll & Hyde ( 1990 ) Television Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde ( 1995 -- 1998 ) Jekyll ( 2007 ) Once Upon a Time ( 2011 -- present ) Penny Dreadful ( 2014 -- 2016 ) Jekyll and Hyde ( 2015 ) Comics Mister Hyde ( introduced 1963 ) Batman : Two Faces ( 1998 ) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 1999 -- present ) Novels The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ( 1824 ) Knots and Crosses ( 1987 ) Mary Reilly ( 1990 ) Radio Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1932 ) Jerry Lewis Films directed The Bellboy ( 1960 ) The Ladies Man ( 1961 ) The Errand Boy ( 1961 ) The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ) The Patsy ( 1964 ) The Family Jewels ( 1965 ) Three on a Couch ( 1966 ) The Big Mouth ( 1967 ) One More Time ( 1970 ) Which Way to the Front ? ( 1970 ) The Day the Clown Cried ( 1972 ) Hardly Working ( 1980 ) Cracking Up ( 1983 ) Related Filmography Gary Lewis ( son ) Martin and Lewis The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon Martin and Lewis ( 2002 film ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Nutty_Professor&oldid=815325099 '' Categories : 1963 films English - language films Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films 1960s comedy films American films 1960s science fiction films American comedy science fiction films American romantic comedy films Films about educators Films directed by Jerry Lewis Films set in universities and colleges Films shot in Arizona Mad scientist films Paramount Pictures films Screenplays by Bill Richmond ( writer ) Screenplays by Jerry Lewis United States National Film Registry films Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Use mdy dates from November 2014 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Deutsch Español Euskara فارسی Français Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Română Русский Simple English Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Svenska Türkçe Edit links This page was last edited on 14 December 2017, at 05 : 06. 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Question: who played the original 'nutty professor' back in 1963
Answer: Jerry Lewis