50-466: The Nutty Professor may refer to: The Nutty Professor (1963 film) , directed by and starring Jerry Lewis The Nutty Professor (1996 film) , directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Eddie Murphy The Nutty Professor (soundtrack) , soundtrack album for the 1996 film Nutty Professor II: The Klumps , 2000 sequel to the 1996 film Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (soundtrack) , soundtrack album for
100-581: A child, was a hit in New York's Central Park and on Broadway . Because Dickens left the novel unfinished at his death, Holmes employed the unusual device of providing alternate endings for each character suspected of the murder, and letting the audience vote on a different murderer each night. The show earned Holmes the Tony Award for both book and score, as well as the Drama Desk Awards for lyrics , music ,
150-433: A copy to his equally weak-willed father Elmer and overbearing mother Edwina, hoping he can entrust them with his secret. The students invite Love to perform at their annual dance, and despite skepticism from deadpan university president Dr. Mortimer Warfield, Love charms him into being allowed to perform. Partway through Kelp's performance as Love, the formula starts to wear off again. Rather than running out to take more of
200-561: A filmmaker, and Timothy, who is autistic . In 2009, they moved from Scarsdale , New York, where they had lived since Wendy's death, to Cold Spring , New York. In his 20s, Holmes was a session musician (producing sessions, writing and arranging songs, singing and playing a few instruments). In 1969, Holmes and Ron Dante of the Cuff Links (and the Archies ) recorded "Jennifer Tomkins" for release on their second album, The Cuff Links . During
250-465: A handsome, suave, charming, and brash girl-chasing hipster who at his core is a narcissistic sociopath. Adopting the alias "Buddy Love", Kelp uses the self-confidence of his new personality 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,
300-550: A new book, and the reworked show opened in Chicago in 2015. Holmes next wrote the book for a jukebox musical , Robin and the 7 Hoods , inspired by the 1964 film Robin and the 7 Hoods starring Frank Sinatra , with a new story line that Holmes set in 1962. Songs are by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen , including " My Kind of Town ". A production ran in 2010, also at the Old Globe. Casey Nicholaw directed and choreographed. The story
350-439: A nightclub where the students hang out. He also mocks a bartender and waitress and punches a student. The formula starts to wear off at inopportune times, often to Kelp's humiliation. Although Kelp knows that his alternate persona is an inherently bad person, he cannot prevent himself from continually taking the formula as he enjoys the attention that Love receives. Fearing the cost of the formula becoming publicly available, he sends
400-752: A peak of number 36. In Canada the song reached number 21. A follow-up single called "Thank You Girl" reached number 96 on the Billboard pop charts in April 1970. Holmes played the piano for both the Cuff Links and the Buoys , with whom he had his first international hit, " Timothy ", which was on the Hot 100 for 17 weeks beginning on January 2, 1971, a number 17 song about human cannibalism that intentionally drew controversy. He also wrote "Give Up Your Guns" (which peaked at number 84), "The Prince of Thieves", "Blood Knot", and "Tomorrow" for
450-479: A pitch to the chemistry class, while Warfield endorses it, and the students all rush forward to buy the new tonic. In the commotion, Kelp, now wearing braces to correct his overbite, slips out of the class with Purdy. Armed with a marriage license and two bottles of the formula, they elope. During the short closing credits, each of the characters comes out and bows down to the camera, and when Jerry Lewis, still portraying Kelp, comes out and bows, he trips and falls over
500-770: A presenter of highly romantic, lushly orchestrated "story songs" that told a witty narrative punctuated by clever rhymes and a hint of comedy. Barbra Streisand discovered this album and asked to record songs from it, launching Holmes on a successful career. She then used some of his songs in the movie A Star Is Born . Holmes also arranged, conducted, and wrote songs on her 1975 album Lazy Afternoon as well as five other Streisand albums. Holmes's second, self-titled album led Rolling Stone to compare him with Bob Dylan as an artist of unprecedented originality who commanded attention. Holmes's production skills were also in demand during this period, and he took on this role for Lynsey de Paul 's album Tigers and Fireflies , which spawned
550-562: A principal lyric baritone with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players , has sung roles with regional opera companies, such as Glimmerglass , Lake George and Virginia Opera , and has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera . In 1969, Holmes married childhood friend Elizabeth "Liza" Wood Dreifuss, an attorney. Their daughter Wendy died suddenly in 1986, at the age of ten, of an undiagnosed brain tumor . They have two sons: Nick,
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#1732851827049600-406: A sequel and eventually settled for the 1996 remake starring Eddie Murphy , for which Lewis was credited as an executive producer. The 1996 version did produce a sequel of its own, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps . 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,
650-644: Is about a likable gangster hoping to get out of the crime business. A do-gooder TV reporter likens him to a modern-day Robin Hood. Holmes adapted the John Grisham novel and film A Time to Kill for the stage. The play premiered at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., in 2011. The courtroom drama, set against a background of evolving 1980s Southern racial politics, was called "funny, shocking, witty, and sly". He wrote
700-547: Is noticeable throughout the film in the form of soda bottles, vending machines and even a delivery truck. Lewis was then under contract as a celebrity endorsement for the soft drink. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an 81% rating based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. In 2000, the American Film Institute placed the film on its 100 Years...100 Laughs list, where it was ranked No. 99. The National Film Preservation Board, USA included it among
750-541: Is widely known for the hit singles " Escape (The Piña Colada Song) " (1979) and " Him " (1980). He is also known for his musicals The Mystery of Edwin Drood , which earned him two Tony Awards , and Curtains , his AMC television series Remember WENN , and his novel Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide . Holmes was born David Goldstein in Northwich , Cheshire , England. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein,
800-492: The Manhattan School of Music . Holmes made his professional debut as a playwright with the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1985. Joseph Papp and his wife encouraged Holmes to write a musical after they attended one of his cabarets in 1983. The result, loosely based on Charles Dickens 's unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood , and inspired by Holmes's memories of English pantomime shows he attended as
850-593: The Nederlander Theatre in 1992 and set a new Kennedy Center box office record before its Broadway run; Thumbs , the most successful play in the history of the Helen Hayes Theatre Company; and the musical Marty (2002), starring John C. Reilly . He wrote the book to Swango: The Theatrical Dance Experience , a swing-tango dance piece that premiered Off-Broadway in 2002 inspired by Romeo and Juliet . It has had several revivals. Holmes joined
900-528: 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). Les Brown and his Band of Renown play themselves in the extended senior prom scenes. Although not a musical, the film features several other standards, including " That Old Black Magic ", " I'm in
950-483: The book and orchestrations , among various other honors. The musical has been given London and Broadway revivals, among others. Drood 's success led Holmes to write other plays (both musical and non-) in later years, though he has said that he avoided musical theater for some time after his daughter's death. Holmes also wrote the Tony Award-nominated ("Best Play 2003") Say Goodnight, Gracie , based on
1000-620: The 1963 film was released in 2008. Lewis directed a musical theatre version in 2012. A new version of the musical, featuring the last score by Marvin Hamlisch , book and lyrics by Rupert Holmes and direction by Marc Bruni, was staged from July 1 to August 6, 2022, at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine. Professor Julius Kelp is a neurotic , scruffy, buck-toothed , accident-prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in
1050-407: The 2000 film The Nutty Professor (2008 film) , animated sequel to the 1963 film The Nutty Professor (character) , the titular character in the above media Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Nutty Professor . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
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#17328518270491100-506: The 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for Curtains . Holmes wrote the book of the musical The First Wives' Club , adapted from the film The First Wives Club . The musical premiered at The Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California in 2009. Its score is by Lamont Dozier , Brian Holland and Eddie Holland . The production received generally unenthusiastic reviews but sold well. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason wrote
1150-618: The 25 films inducted into the Library of Congress in 2004 for the National Film Registry . 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
1200-740: The 56 episodes of that series. In 2003, he published his first novel, Where the Truth Lies (later adapted into the film Where the Truth Lies by Atom Egoyan ), followed in 2005 by Swing , a multimedia release combining a novel with a music CD providing clues to the mystery. His next novel, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide (2023); peaked at number six on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction on March 12, 2023. This discography does not include others' collections or albums released without Holmes's participation. Holmes also wrote and co-produced, and
1250-546: The Julius Kelp character, as well as the transition to a Buddy Love version of Frink in several episodes. In the episode Treehouse of Horror XIV , the character of Frink's father was voiced by Lewis. 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 . Walter Scharf 's score makes extensive use of
1300-516: The Mood for Love " and "We've Got a World that Swings", all sung by Lewis in the Buddy Love persona. 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. Product placement of RC Cola
1350-629: The band. Holmes also wrote jingles and pop tunes (including for Gene Pitney , the Platters , the Drifters , Wayne Newton , Dolly Parton , Barry Manilow and television's the Partridge Family ), as well as the score of the 1970 revenge western Five Savage Men (also known as The Animals ), which starred Keenan Wynn . As a recording artist, Holmes broke through with his first album, 1974's Widescreen on Epic Records , which introduced him as
1400-613: The book and lyrics for The Nutty Professor , a musical based on the 1963 film The Nutty Professor . Marvin Hamlisch wrote the score. The musical was directed by Jerry Lewis and premiered in Nashville , Tennessee, in 2012. With Hamlisch, he also wrote songs for the 2013 Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra . He next wrote the book of Secondhand Lions: A New Musical , which premiered in Seattle , Washington, in 2013. A Time to Kill
1450-548: The camera, shutting off the picture. The basic characterization of Julius Kelp was a Lewis staple, having appeared earlier in Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958), and basically identical characters would appear in The Family Jewels (1965), The Big Mouth (1967), and in various sketches on his self-titled variety show in the late 1960s. Buddy Love is often interpreted as a lampoon of Lewis' show business partner Dean Martin ;
1500-454: The classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football-playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to improve his physique by joining a local gym. Kelp's lack of physical strength leads him to seek a solution in his specialty of chemistry . He invents a serum that causes him to fall unconscious and have a nightmare about transforming into a traditional Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -esque monster; he then awakens as
1550-520: The creative team of the musical Curtains after the deaths of both Peter Stone (the original book-writer) and Fred Ebb (the lyricist). Holmes rewrote Stone's original book and contributed additional lyrics to the Kander and Ebb songs. Curtains played at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway, with David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk in the lead roles. Holmes and Peter Stone (posthumously) won
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1600-617: The duo were highly successful from 1946 to 1956 before an acrimonious breakup when they did not speak to each other for decades. Lewis, however, consistently denied this rumor. 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 rather than simply obnoxious — since to his surprise more fan mail came for Love than for
1650-438: The film industry, known as video assist . 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. 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
1700-474: The film involves Julius Kelp's teenage grandson Harold discovering his grandfather's secret formula and unleashing his own alter ego. In 2006, Lewis was approached by Michael Andrew and Ned McLeod , of the Michael Andrew Company and Loud Watch Productions - about the idea of producing a musical adaptation of The Nutty Professor. After seeing Andrew perform, Lewis green-lit the production and began
1750-565: The final edit in which she is portrayed as smart but fairly unassuming. The Nutty Professor received a "50th anniversary" Blu-ray release in June 2014 as an "Ultimate Collector's Edition" set. This release included all the bonus features from the previous DVD release, a new documentary short, Jerry Lewis: No Apologies , and two additional Jerry Lewis films on DVD. A disc-only release followed in September 2014. Lewis had for decades talked about doing
1800-423: The formula, Kelp allows his real identity to be revealed as he gives an impassioned speech about the importance of liking one's self, admitting his mistakes and seeking forgiveness. Purdy meets Kelp backstage and confesses that she prefers Kelp over Love, leading them to share a kiss. Some time later, Elmer develops a confident personality of his own after taking the formula himself and decides to market it. He makes
1850-632: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Nutty_Professor&oldid=1077264379 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Nutty Professor (1963 film) The Nutty Professor is a 1963 American science fiction comedy film directed, co-written (with Bill Richmond ) by, and starring Jerry Lewis . The film also co-stars Stella Stevens , Del Moore , Kathleen Freeman , Howard Morris , and Elvia Allman . The score
1900-407: The professor. Film critic Danny Peary made the claim in his 1981 book Cult Movies that the character of Love is actually a representation of a dark side of Lewis's real personality. Lewis stated that the two represented good and evil. The character of Professor Frink from the animated television series The Simpsons loosely borrows many of his mannerisms and technique from Lewis' delivery of
1950-506: The radio hit "Hollywood Romance". The album also featured the bluesy song "'Twas", co-written by Holmes and de Paul. He additionally produced Sparks ' 1976 LP, Big Beat , though the album was not a success. In 1975, together with Jeffrey Lesser, Holmes produced the UK band Sailor 's album Trouble (CBS Epic). " Escape (The Piña Colada Song) " was on Holmes's fifth album, Partners in Crime , and
2000-559: The recording of that album, Dante was prohibited by the studio that produced the Archies from any involvement in new recording ventures and was forced to drop out of the Cuff Links. Holmes finished the project and released "Jennifer Tomkins" separately under a different studio name, Street People (not related to the mid-1970s band the Street People ). The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 for 15 weeks, beginning January 3, 1970, reaching
2050-506: The relationship between George Burns and Gracie Allen . The play, which starred Frank Gorshin , was that Broadway season's longest-running play and the third-longest-running solo-performance show in Broadway history. He wrote the comedy-thriller Accomplice in 1990, the second of Holmes's plays to receive an Edgar Award (after Drood ). Holmes has written a number of other shows, including Solitary Confinement , which played on Broadway at
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2100-506: The search for a creative team and investors. A musical comedy adaptation originally opened at the Nashville Tennessee Performing Arts Center from July to August 2012. Lewis directed the musical, with choreography by Joann M. Hunter. The musical has a book and lyrics written by Rupert Holmes and music composed by Marvin Hamlisch , with scenery by David Gallo and costumes by Ann Hould-Ward . Michael Andrew
2150-446: Was a United States Army warrant officer and bandleader. His mother, Gwendolen Mary ( née Pynn), was English, and both were musical. Holmes has dual British and American citizenship. The family moved when Holmes was six years old to the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet , New York, where Holmes grew up and attended nearby Nyack High School and then the Manhattan School of Music (majoring in clarinet). Holmes's brother, Richard,
2200-519: Was cast in the lead role as Professor Julius Kelp. The plot closely follows the original film. The production received warm reviews for its choreography, songs, cast, set, and story. In 2022, a smaller production under the direction of Marc Bruni (director of the Tony-winning Broadway hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical ). The production starred Dan De Luca as the lead role as Professor Julius Kelp. Original producer and star Micheal Andrew
2250-463: Was composed by Walter Scharf . A parody of Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , it follows weak-willed scientist Julius Kelp as he creates a serum that transforms him into a charismatic but narcissistic ladies' man, which he subsequently uses under his alter ego Buddy Love. The Nutty Professor has been described as perhaps the finest and most memorable film of Lewis's career. In 2004, The Nutty Professor
2300-568: Was featured on four albums by Susannah McCorkle : The People That You Never Get to Love (1981), From Bessie to Brazil (1993), Most Requested Songs (2001), and Ballad Essentials (2002). Frank Sinatra Jr. also recorded the tune on his 2006 album That Face! In the 1980s and 1990s, Holmes also played in cabarets and comedy clubs, mostly in New York City, telling often autobiographical anecdotes illustrated with his songs. In 2021, Holmes received an honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
2350-411: Was not attached to the project. In an interview with BroadwayWorld.com promoting the 2022 production, book writer Rupert Holmes credited "someone" as approaching Jerry Lewis with the idea of creating a musical adaptation of The Nutty Professor. Rupert Holmes Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein ; February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, dramatist and author. He
2400-413: Was produced on Broadway, but lasted only four weeks plus previews, closing on November 17, 2013. In 2016, The Sweet Potato Queens , with music by Melissa Manchester , lyrics by Sharon Vaughn and a book by Holmes, premiered at TUTS Underground . In 1996, Holmes created the television series Remember WENN for American Movie Classics , writing the theme song and writing or co-writing all but one of
2450-482: Was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". A remake of The Nutty Professor was released in 1996 , directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Eddie Murphy and Jada Pinkett-Smith . A sequel, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps , followed in 2000, and an animated sequel to
2500-549: Was the final Hot 100 number 1 of 1979 . Another popular song on that album was " Him ", which peaked at number 6 on the Hot 100. Holmes had another top-40 hit with "Answering Machine". In 1986, Holmes's composition " You Got It All " (sometimes called "You Got It All Over Him") was a top 3 hit single for the Jets ; it was later recorded by Britney Spears and featured in her internationally released version of Oops!... I Did It Again (2000). His song "The People That You Never Get to Love"
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