The Nutty Professor (franchise)

| Peter Segal

| David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein
and Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz

| Steve Oedekerk
and David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein

| Brian Grazer

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! scope="row" style="text-align:left" | The Nutty Professor: Facing the Fear

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| Logan McPherson
& Paul Taylor

| colspan="2"| Evan Spiliotopoulos

| George Paige and Barbara Zelinski

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! scope="row" style="text-align:left" | Untitled reboot

| {{TBA}}

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| James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein

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{{main article|The Nutty Professor (1963 film)}}

Professor Julius Kelp is a brilliant science teacher, at a university. However, he has a problem with attracting women due to his clumsy, awkward, inarticulate nature. Women deem him as unattractive. Kelp becomes obsessed with impressing a beautiful student named Stella. With his background in chemistry, Kelp decides to develop a potion that will change him into a different person. His new suave alter ego named Buddy Love, is challenged with winning Stella's affections before his short-supply of potion is depleted.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1962/film/reviews/the-nutty-professor-1200420291/|work=Variety|title=The Nutty Professor (1962)|author=Variety Staff|date=December 31, 1962|access-date=August 16, 2020}}

Film historians regard The Nutty Professor as the most memorable film of Lewis’ long career. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/nutty-professor-reboot-1234746694/|work=Variety|title='Nutty Professor' Reboot in the Works With 'Scream 5' Producers|author=McNary, Dave|date=August 24, 2020|access-date=August 25, 2020}}

{{main article|The Nutty Professor (1996 film)}}

Brilliant and obese scientist Sherman Klump invents a miraculous weight-loss solution. After a date with chemistry student Carla Purty goes badly, a depressed Klump tries the solution on himself. Upon taking the potion, Klump instantly loses 250 pounds. The side effects, besides becoming physically fit include a second personality who calls himself Buddy Love and is obnoxiously self-assertive, conceited alternate personality. Buddy proves to be more popular than Sherman, but his arrogance and bad behavior quickly spiral out of control. During these series of events, Klump must decide whether he enjoys popularity, or values self-respect.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/the-nutty-professor-2-1200444640/|work=Variety|title=The Nutty Professor|author=Variety Staff|date=December 31, 1995|access-date=August 16, 2020}}

{{main|Nutty Professor II: The Klumps}}

After choosing to love himself, over his popular and assertive alternate personality, Professor Sherman Klump has found love in a beautiful and kind woman named Denise. In preparations for their wedding, his undesired alter-ego named Buddy Love begins taking over. Though Klump has ceased taking his self-improving potion, Love continues to present himself and is determined to stay. After a number of appearances, Klump extracts his alternate personality's genes and decides rid the world of his pesky partner, at the risk of his own psychological decline. A laboratory incident including the accidental combination of the genes with dog hair, result in Buddy Love taking on his own existence outside of Klump's body. Unaware of the Love's new existence, the engaged couple begin to perfect a new rejuvenation formula and their fortune seems assured, until Love appears and steals it. Professor Klump's cognitive abilities continue to decline. In a final effort to defeat Buddy Love, the Professor develops a new and more potent formula that will degenerate the villain back to his state of genetic material. Using Love's canine DNA against him, he defeats him with the use of a tennis ball covered in the new potion. As Klump slips away, Denise helps him drink the genetic matter, restoring his genius intellect and resetting everything back to normal. The pair continue to prepare for their wedding, and are married.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2000/film/reviews/the-nutty-professor-ii-the-klumps-1200463259/|work=Variety|title=The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps|author=Leydon, Joe|date=July 27, 2000|access-date=August 16, 2020}}

{{main|The Nutty Professor (2008 film)}}

Released as an animated movie, it serves as a legacy-sequel to the original film, it follows the workings of Julius Kelp's grandson.

Harold Kelp is an aspiring inventor, who struggles to perfect his experiments. Intimidated by his grandfather's legacy, Harold has dreams of his failure taking the form of a giant monster. After coming into conflict with a group of angry individuals involved in one of his demonstrations, Harold decides to attend a science academy run by his grandfather, Professor Julius Kelp. Upon arriving at the school, Harold meets a beautiful woman named Polly McGreggor, with whom he becomes infatuated. Determined to win her affection, Harold finds and takes his grandfather's secret potion. The elixir unleashes Harold's confident, self-loving alternate personality that calls himself Jack. Though initially popular with the fellow students, Jack's outrageous behavior gets out of control and causes more mischief than Harold had anticipated. Due to Harold's continued time evolving into Jack, his grades begin slipping. Learning of Harold's actions, Julius once again takes the potion to become Buddy Love. In his alternate form as Buddy Love, Julius teaches his grandson to appreciate who he is and to be comfortable in his own skin. Harold's anxieties are accidentally unleashed by one of Professor Kelp's inventions, as the visionary monster from his nightmares. Harold bravely faces his fears, and defeats the creature. In doing so, Harold says goodbye to Jack once and for all before sharing a kiss with Polly.{{cite web|url=https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-nutty-professor-0|work=Common Sense Media|author=Herman, Joly|title=The Nutty Professor Movie Review|date=September 20, 2019|access-date=August 16, 2020}}

In August 2020, it was announced that a reboot of The Nutty Professor franchise was in development. James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein serve as producers, while the search for additional talent is ongoing. The movie is under development from Project X Entertainment.{{cite web|url=https://www.projectxentertainment.com/#work|work=Project X Entertainment|title='NUTTY PROFESSOR' REBOOT IN THE WORKS WITH 'SCREAM 5' PRODUCERS|author=Deadline Hollywood|date=August 24, 2020|access-date=August 25, 2020}}

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! scope="row"| Stella Purdy

| Stella Stevens

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! scope="row"| Dr. Mortimer Warfield

| Del Moore

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! scope="row"| Millie Lemmon

| Kathleen Freeman

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! scope="row"| Warzewski

| Med Flory

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! scope="row"| Mr. Elmer Kelp

| Howard Morris

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! scope="row"| Mrs. Edwina Kelp

| Elvia Allman

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! scope="row"| The Nutty Professor (character)

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| Eddie Murphy

| Eddie Murphy{{efn|Additionally, Buddy Love is portrayed by Myles Mason, Jeffrey Michael Freeman, Maurice Colquitt, and Kevin Michael Mondane as an infant.}}

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! scope="row"| Papa Cletus Klump

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| colspan="2" rowspan="5" | Eddie Murphy

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! scope="row"| Mama Anna Klump

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! scope="row"| Grandma Ida Mae Jenson

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! scope="row"| Ernie Klump, Sr.

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! scope="row"| Lance Perkins

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! scope="row"| Ernie Klump, Jr.

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| colspan="2"| Jamal Mixon

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! scope="row"| Jason

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| colspan="2" | John Ales

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! scope="row"| Dean Richmond

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| colspan="2" | Larry Miller

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! scope="row"| Carla Purty

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| Jada Pinkett

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! scope="row"| Reggie Warrington

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| Dave Chappelle

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! scope="row"| Harlan Hartley

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| James Coburn

| colspan="2" style="background:lightgrey;" |

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! scope="row"| Denise Gaines-Klump

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| Janet Jackson

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! scope="row"| Leanne Guilford

| colspan="2" style="background:lightgrey;" |

| Melinda McGraw

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! scope="row"| Issac

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| Gabriel Williams

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! scope="row"| Mr. Gaines

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| Richard Gant

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! scope="row"| Mrs. Gaines

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| Anna Maria Horsford

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! scope="row"| Harold Kelp
{{small|Jack}}

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| Drake Bell{{ref|voice|V|}}

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! scope="row" | Robin

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

| Tabitha St. Germain{{ref|voice|V|}}

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! scope="row"| Polly McGregor

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

| Britt Irvin{{ref|voice|V|}}

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! scope="row" | Zeke

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

| rowspan="2" | Logan McPherson{{ref|voice|V|}}

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! scope="row" | Ned

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

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! scope="row" | Brad

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

| rowspan="2" | Andrew Francis{{ref|voice|V|}}

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! scope="row" | Tad

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

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! scope="row" | Fear

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

| Logan McPherson{{ref|voice|V|}}

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! scope="row" | Dean Von Wu

| colspan="3" style="background:lightgrey;" |

| Brian Drummond{{ref|voice|V|}}

|}

| James Boshier & Logan McPherson

| Kaleidoscope TWC,
Mainframe Entertainment Inc.,
The Weinstein Company

| Genius Products

| 75 minutes

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! Untitled reboot

| {{TBA}}

| {{TBA}}

| {{TBA}}

| Project X Entertainment

| {{TBA}}

| {{TBD}}

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{{hatnote|For more details on the reception of each film, see the "Reception" section on each film's article.}}

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| style="text-align: left;"| Untitled reboot

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! Totals

! $265,466,965

! $193,833,944

! $459,300,909

! x̅ #11.75{{efn|This is an approximate average, based on the all-time standing of each theatrically released film.}}

! x̅ #8.5{{efn|This is an approximate average, based on the all-time standing of each theatrically released film.}}

! $146,630,000

!

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A musical comedy adaptation ran on Broadway after a tryout production that 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.Jones, Kenneth. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/169188-Producers-of-Nutty-Professor-Hope-to-Earn-Broadway-Tenure-for-New-Marvin-Hamlisch-Rupert-Holmes-Show "Producers of Nutty Professor Hope to Earn Broadway Tenure for New Marvin Hamlisch-Rupert Holmes Show"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819030200/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/169188-Producers-of-Nutty-Professor-Hope-to-Earn-Broadway-Tenure-for-New-Marvin-Hamlisch-Rupert-Holmes-Show |date=August 19, 2012 }}, Playbill, August 17, 2012, accessed August 19, 2013{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-nutty-professor-jerry-lewis-musical-nashville-20120801,0,4021683.story |title=Jerry Lewis' 'Nutty Professor' musical opens in Nashville |last=Ng |first=David |date=2012-08-02 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=18 August 2013}} Michael Andrew was cast in the lead role as Professor Julius Kelp.{{cite web |url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/163063/jerry-lewis-broadway-bound-nutty-professor-musical-begins-performances-in-nashville/ |work=Broadway.com|title=Jerry Lewis' Broadway-Bound Nutty Professor Musical Begins Performances in Nashville|author=Broadway.com Staff|date=July 24, 2020|access-date=November 10, 2020}} The plot closely follows the original film. The production received positive reviews for its choreography, songs, cast, set, and story.{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Reviews-THE-NUTTY-PROFESSOR-Sets-Its-Sights-on-Broadway-After-Its-Music-City-Opening-20120801|work=Broadway World|title=BWW Reviews: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR Sets Its Sights on Broadway After Its Music City Opening |last=Ellis |first=Jeffrey |date=August 1, 2012|access-date=November 10, 2020}}

The accompanying novel written by the author of the musical's script, Rupert Holmes, received praise for its use of comedy as well as for the meaningful underlying message.{{cite web|url=http://www.rupertholmes.com/index_new.html|title=The Official Rupert Holmes Website & Resource Center |author=Ruper Holmes |website=RupertHolmes.com |date=2012 |access-date=November 10, 2020}}

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