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4 June 1963 (USA)
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What does he become? What kind of monster? more
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To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win
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Henry Gibson, 1935-2009
(From Cinematical. 17 September 2009, 1:33 PM, PDT)
Comedy Actor Gibson Dead
(From WENN. 17 September 2009, 1:16 AM, PDT)
(From Cinematical. 17 September 2009, 1:33 PM, PDT)
Comedy Actor Gibson Dead
(From WENN. 17 September 2009, 1:16 AM, PDT)
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"That Old Black Magic"!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jerry Lewis | ... | Professor Julius Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp |
 | Stella Stevens | ... | Stella Purdy |
| Del Moore | ... | Dr. Hamius R. Warfield |
| Kathleen Freeman | ... | Millie Lemmon |
| Med Flory | ... | Football Player |
| Norman Alden | ... | Football Player |
| Howard Morris | ... | Mr. Elmer Kelp |
| Elvia Allman | ... | Edwina Kelp |
| Milton Frome | ... | Dr. M. Sheppard Leevee |
| Buddy Lester | ... | Bartender |
| Marvin Kaplan | ... | English student |
| David Landfield | ... | College Student |
| Skip Ward | ... | Football Player |
| Julie Parrish | ... | College Student |
 | Henry Gibson | ... | Gibson, College Student |
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107 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Film debut of Celeste Yarnall.
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Continuity: When Warfield meets with Kelp after the explosion, the fish tank on Warfield's desk keeps changing location.
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Buddy Love:
They're nice kids. All nice. All nice kids. They have very, very good taste, I might add.
Stella Purdy: I'm glad. It would be a shame to waste the genius of yours on the riff-raff.
Buddy Love: Well, honey, I always say, if you're good and you know it, why waste time beating around the bush, true?
Stella Purdy: And I always say that to love yourself is the beginning of a life-long romance. And after watching you, I know that you and you will be very happy together.
Buddy Love: Just a minute, sweetheart. I don't recall dismissing you.
Stella Purdy: You rude, discourteous egomaniac!
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Stella Purdy: I'm glad. It would be a shame to waste the genius of yours on the riff-raff.
Buddy Love: Well, honey, I always say, if you're good and you know it, why waste time beating around the bush, true?
Stella Purdy: And I always say that to love yourself is the beginning of a life-long romance. And after watching you, I know that you and you will be very happy together.
Buddy Love: Just a minute, sweetheart. I don't recall dismissing you.
Stella Purdy: You rude, discourteous egomaniac!
[...]
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Referenced in "Jeopardy!: (#22.103)" (2006)
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Lullaby
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Further to my earlier review, I would wholeheartedly endorse the opinion of other reviewers that the original Lewis movie is superior - vastly superior - to the crass Eddie Murphy re-make. Lewis's subtle points about Buddy Love (whom, I am unsurprised to learn, he loathed) are utterly lost in the Murphy version. If Lewis's movie fails as popular entertainment, it is because it makes extraordinary intellectual demands on its audience, requiring them to see beyond the surface glamour of Buddy Love to the moral rottenness and egotism within. Strangely enough, however, Buddy Love is not without pathos. There is enough of Kelp in him, together with the shakiness of his chemically-induced persona, to lend a faint suggestion of vulnerability. Perhaps even this is part of his satanic charm (he literally charms the pants off the college Principal). It is no coincidence that his calling-card number is "That Old Black Magic"!