1963, Film: “The Nutty Professor”

The American comedy film "The Nutty Professor" is released on 4 June 1963. The film directed and partly written by Jerry Lewis, stars himself, Stella Stevens, Del Moore and Kathleen Freeman. With music composed by Walter Scharf, the film is a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

Synopsis

Professor Julius Kelp (Jerry Lewis) is a nerdy, socially awkward university professor of chemistry whose experiments are most of the time very destructive. When a football student embarrasses and attacks him, he joins a local gymnasium. But due to the lack of physical strength he decides to invent a potion that turns him into the handsome Buddy Love...

Jerry Lewis as Buddy Love

Jerry Lewis as Professor Julius F. Kelp, Del Moore as Dr. Mortimer S. Warfield and
Kathleen Freeman as Millie Lemmon

Jerry Lewis as Professor Julius F. Kelp and
Stella Stevens as Stella Purdy

Del Moore as Dr. Mortimer S. Warfield and Jerry Lewis as Professor Julius F. Kelp

Main cast

• Jerry Lewis as Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp
• Stella Stevens as Stella Purdy
• Del Moore as Dr. Mortimer S. Warfield
• Kathleen Freeman as Millie Lemmon
• Howard Morris as Elmer Kelp
• Elvia Allman as Edwina Kelp
• Julie Parrish as College Student
• Milton Frome as Dr. M. Sheppard Leevee
• Buddy Lester as Bartender
• Med Flory as Warzewski

Stella Stevens as Stella Purdy

Stella Stevens as Stella Purdy and Jerry Lewis as Professor Julius F. Kelp

Stella Stevens as Stella Purdy and Jerry Lewis as Professor Julius F. Kelp

Trivia

• 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".
• Les Brown and his Band of Renown play themselves at the senior prom.

"The Nutty Professor", trailer (1963)