“Well, he said he’s feeling much better and that the bandages should be off in about two weeks.”Īfter a football player humiliates him in front of his other students, including the beautiful Stella Purdy (Stella Stevens), Kelp determines to alter his life by improving his physique, in the manner of the old “Insult that Made a Man Out of Mac” comic book ads.Ī stint at the gym doesn’t work out too well though, as Kelp proves too awkward to use any of the equipment without precipitating disaster. “Oh yes- – really? What did he have to say?” Warfield, I saw young Phipps the other day - you recall Arnold Phipps was in my class that day?” Warfield (Del Moore), reminds Kelp of another such mishap that occurred two years earlier (“the worst explosion in the history of this or any other university”), the following exchange takes place: In fact, the film opens with a comically enormous explosion that happens because “I used… too much…”, and when the outraged head of the university, Dr.
Kelp’s clumsiness extends well beyond the merely social in addition to being inept with women, he has a bad habit of conducting unauthorized experiments that blow up his classrooms along with any students unfortunate enough to be in them. In the film, Lewis plays buck-toothed, bespectacled, timid, socially maladroit chemistry professor Julius Kelp.
BUDDY LOVE MOVIE
Lewis altered the title even more than most adapters do, calling his movie The Nutty Professor, and that’s not all he altered. In 1963, Lewis co-wrote (with Bill Richmond), directed, and starred in what is arguably the best version of that much-filmed classic of dark fantasy, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. This might be of only passing interest to Black Gate readers, except for one thing. (I made that last part up, but it’s probably true.)
BUDDY LOVE SERIES
Ever since he shrieked and jerked his way into the public consciousness with his partner Dean Martin, first in nightclubs and on radio, then in a series of highly successful movies, and finally, after an acrimonious split with Martin, on his own as an actor and director, the standard responses have been either overboard adoration or utter loathing, a split that even effects entire nationalities - the French have a much snickered-at (at least among Americans) reputation for their extreme and almost universal love of Lewis, while Swedes and all other Scandinavians can’t stand him.
Jerry Lewis is one of those colossal, divisive figures like Lenin, Mao, or Meryl Streep few people are noncommittal about him. The book has finally closed on the eight decade long career of Jerry Lewis, the American actor, comedian, and filmmaker, who died on Sunday, August 20th, at the age of ninety one.
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