Talk:The Nutty Professor (1963 film)

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Hey! What gives?[edit]

The summary for this plot is the summary for the Eddy Murphy movie. Something Is Wrong Here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.182.83.96 (talk) 04:08, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You do know that the Eddie Murphy film was a REMAKE of this film? Therefore the plot would be similar. Donaldd23 (talk) 13:01, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There should be some reference to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which is that basis for the plot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monterey86 (talk • contribs) 16:29, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State.[edit]

I deleted the reference to the prom scene having been filmed at Arizona State's Gammage Auditorium. While it is true that exteriors for the film were shot at Arizona State, the prom sequence was clearly shot on a soundstage - almost certainly in Hollywood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.175.120.236 (talk) 05:27, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Man Bird[edit]

There is one film trivia question about "The Nutty Professor" that there has never been a satisfactory answer for. Professor Kelp has a somewhat scary transformation into the character who becomes "Buddy Love." During the transformation Kelp's pet mynah Jennifer morphs into a little man in a business suit who keeps repeating, "I told you, Julius." Who or what is this creature? A dash to the IMDb message board and an email to Paramount Studios (where the film was made) yielded absolutely nothing.

It has been theorized that this "man bird" is just an hallucination Kelp is having after having downed the chemical. Another theory is that it is either Dr. Warfield (Del Moore,) the president of the college, or Kelp's henpecked father (Howard Morris.) These are also unsatisfactory explanations as the creature in the cage neither looks nor sounds like either Warfield or Mr. Kelp. Character actor James Millhollen has been suggested -- indeed, the creature does somewhat resemble him -- but where was he in the rest of the film? Did he wind up "on the cutting room floor?"

The identity of the "man bird" of "The Nutty Professor" is one of the cinema's greatest mysteries, along with the identity of the beautiful young girl who played the "fiancee" of Kong in the 1933 "King Kong."

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Requested move 7 June 2019[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moved  — Amakuru (talk) 15:31, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]


The Nutty Professor → The Nutty Professor (1963 film) – Make the title "The Nutty Professor" into a disambiguation page Bensin (talk) 18:06, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support the 1996 film got 14,155 views compared to 4,180 for the 1963 one despite being at the base name[[1]]. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:16, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Given that all other topics are named after this I'm downgrading to weak support but given the 1996 gets more views readers indeed would probably still be better with a DAB for the reason we don't have Boston about the town in Lincolnshire. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:13, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. While the original film clearly has the greater claim to long term notability, I expect many will be more familiar with the more recent Eddie Murphy remake which gets around twice the number of pageviews. Probably fair to say that there isn't a primary topic in this case, and given the various films and the character article it might be more beneficial to readers if we disambiguate. PC78 (talk) 22:27, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, per long term significance. This film is on the National Film Registry and is possibly the definitive Jerry Lewis film. The remake is a remake and not the original primary, no matter how many views each presently receives. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:33, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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