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Cast

Jerry Lewis
as Professor Julius Kelp/Buddy Love/Baby Kelp, Buddy Love, Prof. Julius Ferris Kelp

Stella Stevens
as Stella Purdy

Del Moore
as Dr. Hamius R. Warfield

Kathleen Freeman
as Millie Lemmon

Howard Morris
as Mr. Kelp

Elvira Allman
as Mother Kelp

Milton Frome
as Dr. Levey

Buddy Lester
as Bartender

Med Flory
as Football Player

Skip Ward
as Football Player

Norman Alden
as Football Player

Marvin Kaplan
as English Boy

David Landfield
as College Student

Celeste Yarnall
as College Student

Francine York
as College Student

Julie Parrish
as College Student

Henry Gibson
as College Student

Dave Willock
as Bartender

Doodles Weaver
as Rube

Mushy Callahan
as Cab Driver

Elvia Allman
as Mother Kelp

Gavin Gordon
as Salesman Clothier

Les Brown
as Himself

Joe Forte
as Faculty Member

Terry Higgins
as Cigarette Girl

Murray Alper
as Judo Instructor

Gary Lewis
as Boy

Walter Scharf

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Audience Reviews for The Nutty Professor

• May 09, 2018

  Despite its sexist tendencies that make it seem outdated for today's standards, this uneven comedy has many funny moments and can be quite impressive with Jerry Lewis playing two very different (and magnetic) characters - that is, if we don't take its implausible ending so seriously.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Sep 06, 2017

  Shot in uber bright (nearly cartoon) colors and co-written, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, here is the famous Doctor Jekyll, Mr. Hyde story made as close to personal therapy as could be. The humor is spotty and often mean spirited (something Stella Stevens somehow nullifies), but the overall entertainment intention drags itself through and only just barely. And this lukewarm appraisal by a longtime fan ...
  Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
• Dec 15, 2013

  Lewis' The Nutty Professor is a classic, intelligent and surreal comedy, that prove his comical and cinematographic genius.
  Lucas M Super Reviewer
• Sep 17, 2010

  Jerry Lewis' magnum opus, a riotously funny classic comedy that he wonderfully directed and co-wrote. It's concerns a homely, nearsighted chemistry professor named Dr. Julius Kelp, played sensationally by Jerry Lewis in a masterful comic performance, he is constantly ridiculed by his students and fellow colleagues and totally ignored by all the ladies. Well all that is about to forever change, because he has concocted an amazing potion that will transform him into a handsome, creosote-haired, self-assured, hard-drinking lady-killer named "Buddy Love." But this Jekyll-and-Hyde routine will soon have serious consequences for the bumbling professor Kelp when the girl of his dreams, one of his students, superbly played by the gorgeous Stella Stevens, begins to fall for the conceited, super-cool Buddy Love. Astute direction by Lewis, with marvelously supporting performances by Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Med Flory, Norman Alden, Howard Morris, Ellvia Allman, Marvin Kaplan, Buddy Lester, Henry Gibson, and Richard Kiel. Striking cinematography by W. Wallace Kelly. There are some truly hilarious slight gags and slapstick sequences. A comic masterpiece that is a must-see! Highly Recommended.
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