#jekyll and hyde... together again (1982

[rainbowdelicgalore]

Medic Headcanon 2/????

Another one of Medic's favorite movies of all time is Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)

The Unhinged, Fucked Up, and Outrageous Humor and Plot of the Movie goes right up Medic's Alley and he loves showing it to people, tricking them by saying it's a Legit Jekyll and Hyde Movie!

(Please Don't Say I Didn't Warn Y'all When I Said This Movie is Fucking Unhinged, and yes, Jekyll snorts coke to become Hyde in this movie)

[tamara-kama]

It's interesting when they visualize someone looking at a monitor by projecting what's on screen on their face like the monitor is so bright it acts as a projector!

Screens from the film "Jekyll and Hyde, Together Again (1982)" they were in a golden age arcade called, "Funland".

[dross-the-fish]

What's the worst adaptation of a goth lit novel you've ever seen?

That is a difficult question because how I define "worst" is subject to change.

On the one hand you can show me an objectively bad movie and I might still have a good time and on the other you could show me a technically competent movie that had potential and just missed the mark and that movie will leave me seething because it could have been so much better.

1982's Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again, is AWFUL, it is a baffling movie that is so batshit insane I can hardly describe it. But I can't get mad at it because it tells me from the beginning what kind of movie it's going to be. I mean, you see the film open with someone snorting the credit text up his nose and that's your expectations set right there.

By contrast, the 1994 Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein movie infuriated me because it could have been good. It was trying to be faithful to the source material and it botched it harder than OG Victor botched his experiment. Kenneth Branagh casting himself as Victor is hilarious because Branagh was like 35 and looked like he belonged on the cover of a trashy romance novel. The movie has all the grace and subtlety of an elephant on roller skates and Robert De Niro feels like he's trying his best to take this seriously and give a good performance but it's just not working. All of the effort and competence on screen just highlights how much wasted potential there was.

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Jekyll And Hyde… Together Again (1982)

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Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Films:

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908 - U.S.). Produced by William N. Selig. There are no known existing copies of this film.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908 - U.S.). Produced by Kalem Films. Directed by Sidney Olcott, starring Frank Oakes Rose in the lead role.

- A Modern Dr. Jekyll  (1909 - U.S.). Produced by William N. Selig. There are no known existing copies of this film.

- The Duality of Man (1910 - U.K.). First Jekyll-Hyde adaptation filmed in England, directed by Harry Brodribb Irving.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 - U.S.) United States production based on Richard Mansfield's stage performance. Thanhouser Company. Starring James Cruze and Florence Labadie.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913 - U.S.). Starring King Baggot and directed by Herbert Brenon. Distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, the precursor to Universal Studios.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Done to a Frazzle. (1914 - U.S.) Ten-minute satire starring Charles de Forrest as both Jekyll and Hyde.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 - U.S.) . Famous silent film version, starring John Barrymore. Plot follows the Sullivan version of 1887, with elements from The Picture of Dorian Gray.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 - U.S.) . Directed by J. Charles Haydon, starring Sheldon Lewis.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  (1920 - U.S.). Satire starring Hank Mann of the Keystone Cops.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 - U.S.) . Known for its acting, visual symbolism, and special effects, it follows the Sullivan plot. Fredric March won the Academy Award for his portrayal. The technical secret of the transformation scenes was not revealed until after the director's death.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 - U.S.) . A remake of the 1931 movie, it stars Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner. Unlike the 1931 version, this film uses what Christopher Frayling called "the movie pronunciation", /ˈdʒɛkəl/ JEK-əl, instead of the original /ˈdʒiːkəl/ JEE-kəl.

- The Son of Dr. Jekyll  (1951 - U.S.). Dr. Jekyll's illegitimate son Edward tries to recreate his father's formula to clear his father's name.

- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953 - U.S.). A comedy starring Boris Karloff as Dr. Jekyll and an uncredited Eddie Parker (Karloff's stuntman) as Mr. Hyde.

- The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957 - U.S.) . A young woman discovers she is the daughter of Dr. Jekyll. This low-budget adaption includes the bizarre and unique feature of Mr. Hyde as a "human werewolf", who can only be destroyed by a stake through the heart, which is the traditional way of killing vampires, not werewolves.

- The Ugly Duckling (1959 - U.K.) . A comedy film and the first of three adaptations of the story by Hammer Film Productions. It has nothing to do with the story of "The Ugly Duckling", despite its name.

- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll or House of Fright and Jekyll's Inferno (1960 - U.K.) . A lurid love triangle and explicit scenes of snakes, opium dens, rape, murder and bodies crashing through glass roofs.

- The Nutty Professor  (1963 - U.S.). Directed by Jerry Lewis. This screwball comedy retains a thin connection to the original.

- Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971 - U.K.). Starring Ralph Bates as Jekyll and Martine Beswick as Hyde. The earliest work to show Jekyll transform into a beautiful woman. The film notably recasts Jekyll from a kind, well-intentioned man into Jack the Ripper, who uses Sister Hyde as a disguise to carry out his murders. Jekyll also employs the services of Burke and Hare.

- I, Monster (1971 - U.K.). Starring Christopher Lee in the Jekyll and Hyde role and Peter Cushing as Utterson. Recasts Jekyll (with a name change to Dr. Charles Marlowe/Mr. Edward Blake) as a 1906 Freudian psychotherapist. Retains some of Stevenson's original plot and dialogue.

- Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976 - U.S.) , a blaxploitation version by William Crain starring Bernie Casey as Dr. Henry Pride and Rosalind Cash.

.- Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982 - U.S.) , a campy satire wit Mark Blankfield as Jekyll who experiments with a "drug to replace all surgery", which is inadvertently mixed with an unknown substance.

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986 - Australian) it was made by Burbank Animation Studios. 

- Edge of Sanity (1989 - U.S.) , a low-budget adaptation with Anthony Perkins as a version of Jekyll whose experiments with synthetic cocaine transform him into Hyde, who is also Jack the Ripper 

- The Pagemaster (1994 - U.S.) , a mix of animation and live action, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde appear as the movie's first villain (voiced by Leonard Nimoy).

- Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995 - U.S.) , in which a descendant of Dr. Jekyll creates a variant of his ancestor's potion that turns him into a woman.

- Mary Reilly (1996 - U.S.) . Starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich and based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Valerie Martin.

- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2002 - U.K.), Director: Maurice Phillips, starring John Hannah

- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006 - U.S.) , set in modern times instead of Victorian England.

- Jekyll + Hyde (2006 - Canada) . Starring Bryan Fisher as Henry "J" Jekyll and Bree Turner as Utterson. Two medical students set out to create a drug derived from ecstasy that would enhance and change their personalities.

- Igor (2008 - U.S.) . Jaclyn (Jennifer Coolidge) stars as the henchwoman of Dr. Schadenfreude (Eddie Izzard), turning into Heidi to spy on Schadenfreude's competition.

- Den skæbnesvangre Opfindelse or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1910 - Denmark) . Directed by August Blom and starring Alwin Neuß for the Nordisk Film company. There are no known existing copies of this film.

- Ein Seltsamer Fall or A Strange Case  (1914 - Germany) . German Jekyll-Hyde film starring Alwin Neuß and directed by Max Mack.

- Der Januskopf or The Janus-Head (1920 - Germany) . Directed by F. W. Murnau. An unauthorized version of Stevenson's story, disguised by changing the names to Dr. Warren and Mr. O'Connor. The dual roles were essayed by Conrad Veidt. The film is now lost.

- Karutha Rathrikal or Dark Nights (1967 - India) . A thriller, it was the first science fiction film in Malayalam, the language in which it was made.

- Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972 - Spain) , a Paul Naschy film in his long-running series that pits Dr. Jekyll against a werewolf.

- Docteur Jekyll et les femmes (1981 - France) with Udo Kier.

- Chehre Pe Chehra or A face over a face  (1981 - India) is an Indian Bollywood thriller film produced and directed by Raj Tilak. It stars Sanjeev Kumar as Dr. Wilson / Blackstone.

- Madame Hyde (2017 - France) . Marie Géquil and Madame Hyde were played by Isabelle Huppert.

Radio

- 1932, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Available for download. 52 fifteen-minute episodes, likely to have been broadcast weekly over one year. Further details unknown.

- 1945, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", The Weird Circle program episode

- 1948, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", NBC Favorite Story program episode hosted by Ronald Colman, starring William Conrad and selected by Alfred Hitchcock

- 1949, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", CBS Bookshelf of the World program episode

- 1952, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", NBC Presents: Short Story program episode (transcribed but never aired)

- 1954, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", NBC Theatre Royal program episode hosted by and starring Laurence Olivier

- 1974, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", CBS Radio Mystery Theater program episode hosted by E. G. Marshall and starring Kevin McCarthy

- 1985, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, BBC Radio 4 dramatization with Michael Aldridge as Jekyll, James Bryce as Hyde and Bernard Hepton as Utterson

- 1997, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, BBC Radio 4 dramatization with Alexander Morton as Jekyll/Hyde and David Tennant

- 2007, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama with Adam Godley as Jekyll/Hyde and Christine Kavanagh as Mrs. Utterson.

- 2012, BBC Radio Scotland crime drama, The Strange Case of Dr. Hyde, a four-part reworking of the Stevenson story written by Chris Dolan set in modern-day Edinburgh. Detective Inspector Newman (David Rintoul), assisted by Detective Constable Lanyon (Kenny Blyth), is investigating a series of mutilation murders and seeks the help of eccentric pathologist Dr. Hyde (Jimmy Chisholm), becoming involved along the way with solicitor Jane Poole (Wendy Seager).

- 2016, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, BBC Radio 4 BBC Drama with Stuart McQuarrie as Jekyll, John Dougall as Hyde and Madeleine Worrall as Lorna Utterson. This version is presented as a speculative version of what the original Jekyll & Hyde would have been like before Stevenson edited it based on his wife's objections, and introduces the twist of a third identity for Jekyll in the form of George Denman, intended to represent all the most positive aspects of Jekyll's character, only for Denman to regress to Hyde when he loses his temper.

Television

- 1955, Season 1 episode of CBS's live CLIMAX! drama program starring Michael Rennie. Hosted by Bill Lundigan, this episode was originally aired on 28 July 1955 (Season 1 Episode 34). It ran 60 minutes originally, but was edited down to 45 minutes on home video.The story was adapted for television by Gore Vidal.

- 1959, TV France, The Testament of Dr. Cordelier. A modern adaptation of Stevenson's novel, it stars Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, and Michel Vitold.

- 1968, TV U.S. and Canada, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Starring Jack Palance, directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Dan Curtis of Dark Shadows fame. Nominated for several Emmy awards, it follows Hyde on sexual conquests and hack and slash murders. The TV-movie aired on CBC in Canada on 3 January 1968 and on ABC in the U.S. on 7 January.

- 1970, TV U.S. Dark Shadows. Another Dan Curtis production that features the characters Cyrus Longworth and John Yaeger who are identical, except in name, to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

- 1973, TV U.S. and U.K., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a musical made-for-TV version starring Kirk Douglas in one of his few singing roles. No relation to the later musical version, the songs for this one were by Lionel Bart, who wrote Oliver!. Directed by David Winters.

- 1975, TV U.S., The Ghost Busters, a Filmation series featuring ghosts of historical and literary figures. In the episode "Jekyll & Hyde: Together for the First Time!", Severn Darden stars as Jekyll alongside Joe E. Ross as Mr. Hyde.

- 1980, TV U.K., Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a BBC adaptation directed by Alastair Reid with David Hemmings in the title roles. This version turns the convention of the (performed) role upside down, with Hemmings appearing in heavy make-up as Jekyll, and with less makeup as a debonair, man-about-town version of Hyde. This version also gives a twist to the usual ending when Jekyll's body turns into Mr. Hyde upon his death.

- 1986, animated Australian telefilm, with John Ewart as Utterson, made by the Burbank production company.

- 1989, TV U.S., with Laura Dern and Anthony Andrews in the dual role. This version was adapted by J. Michael Straczynski. Broadcast as episode 3 of the horror anthology series Nightmare Classics.

- 1990, TV U.S., Jekyll & Hyde, a made-for-television film starring Michael Caine in the title roles. Added to the story is Jekyll's sister-in-law character (Cheryl Ladd), who is raped by Hyde.

- 1999, TV U.S., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Adam Baldwin. In this modern-day re-imagining, plastic surgeon Henry Jekyll learns ancient Chinese herbal medicine will give him superhuman powers, which he uses to exact revenge for his wife's murder. Francis Ford Coppola produced.

- 2002, TV U.K., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Hannah as both characters, with body language and wardrobe the only distinction between the appearance of the two. Initially Hyde is identified as a mental patient that Jekyll had 'hired' as a test subject, but when Hyde died during a riot in the asylum, Jekyll used Hyde's name for his other identity as his staff were already expecting Hyde as a new presence in the house. The narrative is chronologically disjointed, beginning with the end of the story, then returning to the beginning via narrated flashbacks, with the occasional brief glimpse of the reading of Jekyll's confession by Utterson.

- 2007, TV U.K., Jekyll. A six-part BBC serial, aired from 16 June 2007, starring James Nesbitt as Tom Jackman, a modern Jekyll whose Hyde wreaks havoc in modern London. In the course of the series, Jackman learns that he is the descendant of the original Hyde (Jekyll died a virgin while Hyde had various affairs), and that the transformations were the result of some natural fluke in Jekyll's biology rather than a potion. He also learns that the company he works for was created specifically to track him, to the extent that his wife is a clone of the original Jekyll's maid created so that she could provoke the same transformation in Jackman as her template did in the original Hyde.

- 2008, TV, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Dougray Scott, Tom Skerritt, and Krista Bridges.

- 2013, TV U.S., Do No Harm, an NBC series. This is a contemporary take on the story, with actor Steven Pasquale in dual roles as Dr. Jason Cole/Ian Price. Cole is a successful neurosurgeon who has long been able to suppress Price, his evil alternate personality, with an experimental drug. However, Price develops an immunity to the drug and subsequently wreaks havoc on Cole's life when he is in control.

- 2015, TV U.K., Jekyll and Hyde a "superhero-themed" 10-episode series, produced by ITV Studios for ITV, being filmed between February and July 2015. Beginning on 25 October 2015, the series takes place in the 1930s and centred around Robert Jekyll, the grandson of Henry Jekyll, who has inherited his grandfather's curse to become Mr. Hyde when angry, but could keep this from happening by taking special tablets. In the course of the series, Robert finds himself caught between MIO, a British organisation created to hunt the supernatural, and the ruthless Tenebrae, an organisation that seeks to use the supernatural for power, as well as his own attempts to control the Hyde within him by researching his family history, finding his long-hidden grandmother and previously-unknown sister (who has a Hyde of her own).

- 2015, TV, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Gianni Capaldi, Shaun Paul Piccinino and Mickey Rooney in his final role.

- 2015, South Korean television romance-thriller series, Hyde, Jekyll, Me, starring Hyun Bin as both Hyde and Jekyll, renamed Seo-jin and Robin. In this version, Hyde is the main personality, while Jekyll is the new personality created by an accident.

Music

- Slovak singer Miroslav Žbirka released a song called "Dr. Jekyll a Mr. Hyde" on his fifth album Chlapec z ulice in 1986

- The Who released the song "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" as the B side of the singles "Magic Bus" and "Call Me Lightning" and on the album Magic Bus: The Who on Tour. They also released the Jekyll-Hyde allegorical "Doctor Jimmy" (with the refrain "Dr. Jimmy and Mr. Jim") on the album Quadrophenia, the latter of which is regarding split personality.

- Serge Gainsbourg wrote and released the song "Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde" on his 1968 album with Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie and Clyde. -Men At Work released the song "Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive" on their album Cargo.

- The Damned released a song titled "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" on their 1980 release The Black Album.

- Korean boyband VIXX released their first mini-album (HYDE) and first repackage (Jekyll) based on the book.

- Halestorm released the song "Mz. Hyde" on their album The Strange Case Of....

- Petra released the song "Jekyll and Hyde" as the first track of their 2003 album of the same name.

- Figure released the song "Mr. Hyde" on the album Monsters of Drumstep vol. 2 in 2011.

- Jekyll + Hyde is the fourth major-label studio album by the Zac Brown Band, released on 28 April 2015.

- Metalcore band Ice Nine Kills released the song "Me, Myself and Hyde" as a single on 19 February 2015 for their album Every Trick in the Book.

- Five Finger Death Punch released a song called "Jekyll And Hyde" on their 2015 album Got Your Six.

- Christian artist Jonathan Thulin released a song called "Jekyll and Hyde" on his album Science Fiction.

- "Jekyll or Hyde" is a song that appears on the progressive metal album Static Impulse by James LaBrie.

- "Jekyll and Hyde" is a song that appears on the 2001 Judas Priest -album Demolition.

Books

- 1890, The Untold Sequel of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Frances H. Little is a 're-telling' of the story based on the -idea that Edward Hyde was an actual person, a former actor whom Jekyll had met in America and brought to London, and not the alter ego of Henry Jekyll. Told from the perspective first of Utterson and then of Hyde, the story recounts Hyde murdering first Sir Danvers Carew in an opium-induced fit of rage, then Jekyll for the inheritance stated in Jekyll's will, and finally hiding Jekyll's body in a secret room in Jekyll's house. Hyde finally tricks Lanyon with a false transformation before committing suicide as in Stevenson's book.

- 1979, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes by Loren D. Estleman is a 'retelling' of the story based on the idea that Utterson hired Sherlock Holmes to investigate Hyde's connection to Jekyll in the belief that Hyde is a blackmailer. The novel is written in a manner that suggests it was essentially taking place 'behind the scenes' of the familiar storyline, with Utterson hiring Holmes to investigate the apparent blackmail and the Queen herself later asking Holmes to investigate the death of Sir Danvers Carew. The story culminates with Holmes and Watson confronting Hyde just as he consumes the last sample of the potion to turn back into Jekyll, Jekyll telling them his story before forcing Holmes to kill him, as he recognizes that Hyde will never commit suicide and cannot bring himself to do it. In the novel's final chapter, Holmes shares the story with Robert Louis Stevenson, but asks that Stevenson leave Holmes and Watson out of his version of the story to prevent anyone realizing that it is a chronicle of real events and to avoid facing the legal issue of Holmes killing Jekyll, even if in self-defence.

- 1990, Robert Bloch and Andre Norton's The Jekyll Legacy acts as a sequel to the novel, in which Hester Lane, a reporter from Canada, discovers that she is Jekyll's heir. However, someone is continuing Jekyll's experiments. The novel takes an even more sinister turn as Jekyll's butler Poole and Utterson are bludgeoned to death.

- 2001, Ludovic Debeurme's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, an illustrated edition adapted for young readers.

- The Robert Swindells book Jacqueline Hyde concerns the protagonist's struggle with her 'Hyde' after smelling a bottle, the contents of which releases her bad side.

- 2014, Hyde by Daniel Levine acts as the original book's companion, telling the story from Hyde's perspective and adding new elements to the plot.

- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss is the first novel of the Athena Club series, which features the daughters of various prominent scientists from Victorian literature banding together to oppose their fathers' schemes. The first members of the club are Mary Jekyll, Doctor Jekyll's legitimate daughter, and the near-feral Diana Hyde, with the first novel seeing these two meeting their fellows and confronting the still-living Edward Hyde.

- 2021, Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection by Alexander Bayliss was released on 5th January to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the publication of the original. It is a contemporary urban thriller.

(Web)Comics & Mangas

-  Jekyll to Hyde to Saibanin. 

-  Jekyll de Hyde na Kare/Jekyll and Hyde Boyfriend

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, adaptation by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky which won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material in 2003.

- The Glass Scientists (2015) webcomic adaptation by Sabrina Cotugno, features Hyde constantly at odds with Dr. Jekyll's pursuit of improving the reputation of mad scientists in the public eye, who are generally ostracized following the death of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein. Lanyon plays a greater role in this adaption, acting as Jekyll's business partner and taking up Utterson's role in the original novel as Jekyll's close friend. The webcomic is ongoing.

- The Search for Henry Jekyll by @gabrielied. London is plagued by an unidentified serial killer. While looking for the culprit, Inspector Utterson fears all clues point to his estranged friend, Doctor Jekyll. Now Utterson must choose between his still strong desire to protect Henry, or turn him in for certain death and lose him forever. A queer retelling of the classic tale of Jekyll and Hyde, follow Utterson as he desperately tries to save his dear friend Henry from his own murderous alter ego.​

- A condensed version of the story was adapted in 1982 as a short comic book titled Przeobrażenie (The Transformation), by Polish illustrator Marek Szyszko, with Stefan Weinfeld. In 1983 Szyszko and Weinfeld adapted the story once again, this time as a full-length comic book Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, which closely followed Stevenson's complete story and kept its title.

- Marvel’s Hulk

- Jekyll to Hyde to Saibanin (2009). A strange case occurred in London at the end of the 19th century. What is the true face of the vicious criminal roaming the city? The famous masterpiece epitomizing the phenomenon known as split personality is adapted into comic format!

- Hoof Fellas is the story of the devil's incompetent brother and his manservant Jekyll/Hyde as they journey to Hell and back to discover the true meaning of cornbread. Created by Chess Albaneze.

Appearances in other fiction

- Mad Monster Party?, a 1967 American animated comedy film, features Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as guests at a party thrown by Baron Boris von Frankenstein.

- A "Jekyll and Hyde" character was a part of the "1970 Parallel Time" storyline (March 27, 1970 - July 17, 1970) of the ABC daytime serial Dark Shadows, where Dr. Cyrus Longworth (played by Christopher Pennock) creates a formula that turns him into the dark-haired, mustachioed and totally evil "John Yaeger" (also played by Pennock).

- Mad Mad Mad Monsters, a 1972 American animated "prequel of sorts" to Mad Monster Party?. Dr. Jekyll appears only twice briefly in the story and is not mentioned by name until the second time at the end, where he drinks his potion and changes into Mr. Hyde.

- 1988, video game, Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the NES, created by Toho.

- 1990, novel, Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin, a reworking of Stevenson's plot told from the viewpoint of a maid in Jekyll's household, named Mary Reilly in this novel.

- 1993, animated film, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mr. Hyde appears as one of the citizens of Halloween Town. Only seen in his "Hyde" form, he keeps two smaller versions of himself underneath his hat.

- 1994, movie U.S., The Pagemaster, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde play as supporting characters, both voiced by Leonard Nimoy, Hyde threatening the main characters before they drop him down a pit.

- 2001, video game, Jekyll and Hyde for Windows platform, created by Cryo Interactive.

- 2003, film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, adapted from Alan Moore's eponymous comic book series. The film adaptation stars Jason Flemyng as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the latter using prosthetic makeup. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are employed by the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to combat the Fantom. The version of Hyde depicted in both comic and movie bears more resemblance to the Hulk than the malevolent dwarf of the novel, possessing great strength and size. As in the comic book on which it is based, this is attributed to Hyde "growing, free from boundaries, free from limitations" (although the film version is still dependent on Jekyll drinking the serum to transform, rather than Hyde no longer requiring the potion to manifest).

- 2004, film Van Helsing. Robbie Coltrane provides the voice of a CGI animated Mr. Hyde, who Van Helsing unintentionally kills at the cathedral of Notre Dame when pursuing him through Paris. Like in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Mr. Hyde is also portrayed as a large, hulking brute. When Hyde dies, he transforms back into Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is also the focus of the film's animated prequel Van Helsing: The London Assignment, where Hyde is shown as Jack the Ripper, stealing souls each night for a youth potion that Jekyll, in the guise of a royal physician, uses to restore Queen Victoria's youth and seduce her.

- 2008, animated film, Igor: a major character is Jacqueline and Heidi.

- 2010, television series, Sanctuary, the character Adam Worth's story was stolen by a former friend and retold under the "fictional" title of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adam's psychological disorder is one of "split personality" at a time before modern psychiatry.

- 2012, Sony Pictures animated film, Hotel Transylvania, Mr. Hyde can be seen as one of the monsters in Hotel Transylvania. This version has an underbite, has pale yellow skin, and wears a suit and a top hat.

- 2014, In Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Blue & Silver, a light novel series based on the original drafts of Fate/stay night, Dr. Jekyll appears as the Servant of the Berserker class, portrayed as a gentle and good looking young man. His Noble Phantasm allows him to transform into Mr. Hyde.

- 2016, TV U.K., Penny Dreadful season 3, with Shazad Latif as Dr. Henry Jekyll. Here, Jekyll is an old medical school friend of Victor Frankenstein's, who once schemed with him to upend the medical establishment. He comes to Victor's aid after the latter has lost control of his creations.

- 2016, TV U.S., Once Upon a Time season 5 and 6, with Hank Harris as Dr. Jekyll and Sam Witwer as Mr. Hyde. In this version, Rumplestiltskin helps Dr. Jekyll to create his formula, hoping to benefit from Dr. Jekyll's work. Dr. Jekyll still has evil tendencies at times, and Hyde can be nice. The characters separate and appear in the present day.

- In season 10 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the serial killer Charles DiMesa a.k.a. Dr. Jekyll is active.

- In Power Rangers Dino Super Charge, the name of the character Heckyl refers to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because he has a split personality and shares a body with Snide.

- In 2017, Russell Crowe plays Dr. Jekyll (and Mr. Hyde) in The Mummy, which is the first installment in the Dark Universe film series and is a role which was planned to be elaborated on in further films within the series. However, the cancellation of the so-called "Dark Universe" put a stop to these plans.

- In 2018, a dating simulator created by game company NTT Solmare titled "Guard me, Sherlock" has a version of Jekyll and Hyde; however, in this adaptation they are not the same person and are instead brothers, Jekyll being the elder, and unlike many other adaptations, Hyde is not depicted as monstrous and instead appears as a normal brown-haired, blue-eyed male with a scar across his face.

- Jekyll & Hyde: the Musical

Spoofs and parodies

- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde, a 1924 silent, black-and-white comedy film starring Stan Laurel in a solo film appearance and directed by Percy Pembroke. A parody in which the Hyde character Mr. Pride is more of a compulsive prankster than evil.

- The Impatient Patient, a 1942 Looney Tunes Daffy Duck cartoon where, suffering from hiccups, he ends up meeting a Dr. Jerkyl while trying to deliver a telegram to someone named "Chloe".

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse, a 1947 Tom and Jerry cartoon. -Motor Mania, a 1950 Goofy cartoon in which he transforms into a Mr. Hyde-type split personality.

- The Prize Pest, a 1951 Looney Tunes Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon where Daffy adopts a "Jekyll and Hyde routine" split personality in order to scare Porky Pig.

- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a 1953 horror comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and Boris Karloff as Jekyll, with an uncredited Eddie Parker as Hyde.

- Dr. Jerkyl's Hide, a 1954 Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Sylvester, Alfie and Chester

- Hyde and Hare, a 1955 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon.

- Hyde and Go Tweet, a 1960 Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Sylvester and Tweety, with the bird as the dual character.

- Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!, the ninth episode of The Inspector animated film series. It was produced in 1966 and features Deux-Deux drinking a green potion from a test tube and constantly changing into a huge, ugly, green monster when the Inspector is not looking. The monster Deux-Deux becomes keeps shooting and stomping on the Inspector.

- "Nowhere to Hyde," the 12 September 1970, episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in which the ghost of Mr. Hyde is committing jewelry store robberies and one of the suspects is a descendant of Dr. Jekyll.

- The Jerry Lewis version of The Nutty Professor shows the schlemiel academic turn into a suave lady killer by drinking his potion.

- The Adult Version of Jeyll & Hide, 1972 "underground" erotic film starring John Barnum as "Dr. Leeder" who finds and uses Jekyll's diary and formula, turning him into "Miss Hyde" (Jane Tsentas)

- Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype, 1980 film starring Oliver Reed, in which a kindly but hideous doctor develops a potion that turns him into a suave, but evil, man of the world.

- Dottor Jekyll e gentile signora, 1980 Italian comedy film starring Paolo Villaggio and Edwige Fenech

- Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again, 1982, starring Mark Blankfield.

- Wondergran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hide, on the first episode of Season 12 of The Benny Hill Show. Produced in 1981, Benny Hill is as surgeon Dr. Jackal who, unable to have a proper meal and drinking a mix of chemicals to assuage his hunger, changes into the evil monster Mr. Hide.

- "Nasty Stuff", 1984 episode of claymation series The Trap Door

- "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. McDuck", 1987 episode of Disney's DuckTales

- Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, a 1988 comedy film, features a race between a number of classic Hollywood inspired monsters including "Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Snyde."

- Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, 1995 comedy film starring Tim Daly, Sean Young and Lysette Anthony

- "Bubba Hyde", a 1995 song by Diamond Rio. The video starred Jm J. Bullock playing Barney Jekyll and Bubba Hyde.

- Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde, a 1995 British children's television series which aired on BBC One

- Jekyll and Heidi, a 1999 book in the Goosebumps series

- Dr Jekyll i Mr Hyde według Wytwórni A'YoY – Polish movie from 1999

- Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde, 2003 direct-to-DVD erotic film starring Julian Wells as "Dr. Jackie Stevenson/Heidi Hyde"

- "The Strange Case of Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly", which appeared as part of the VeggieTales 2004 video A Snoodle's Tale

- Jacqueline Hyde, 2005 direct-to-DVD erotic film starring Gabriella Hall as the normal "Jackie Hyde" and Blythe Metz as her "Jacqueline Hyde" counterpart

- "Mrs Hyde", 2005 song by the Italian rock noir band Belladonna[39]

- The Phineas and Ferb episode "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein" features the villain Dr. Jekyll Doofenshmirtz drinking a potion to turn himself into a monster in order to win a "Best Monster" contest.

- The Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero episode "Rip-Penn" features Penn as Dr. Barzelby (inspired by Dr. Jekyll) who accidentally drinks a potion that turns him into a monster version of Penn's nemesis Rippen.

- In the Rooster Teeth Animation RWBY, the book "The Man with Two Souls." Is a reference to the book. A sequel is called "The Man with Two Souls II: The Man with Four Souls."

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Cassandra Peterson - (17/09/1951 - )

Local de Nascimento: Manhattan, Kansas (EUA)

Atriz, apresentadora de TV, produtora, e roteirista.

Filmes:

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)

Last of the Great Survivors (1984)

Cheeseball Presents (segmento:Revenge of the Toys/ 1984)

3-D TV (1985)

ThrillerVideo (1985)

Elvira, a Rainha das Trevas (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark/1988)

Midnight Madness (1990)

The Horror Hall of Fame II (1991)

Fox Halloween Bash (1994)

As Loucas Aventuras de Elvira (Elvira's Haunted Hills/2001)

Chapeuzinho no Século XXI (Red Riding Hood/2006)

The Scream (2009)

All About Evil (2010).

Scooby-Doo! Halloween (2020) 

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and the Horrors of Factory Farming (2021)                              

Curta- metragem:

Superstition (1997), e Encounter in the Third Dimension (1999).    

          TV: 

The Marilyn Denis Show (2011)

A Paranormal (Medium/2009)                        

Attack of the Killer B-Movies (1995)

The Elvira Show (1993)

Parker Lewis (1992)

- Boy Meets Girl II

Just Say Julie (1989)

Ilha da Fantasia  (Fantasy Island/1978-1983)

- God Child/Curtain Call (1983)

- What's the Matter with Kids?/ Island of Horrors (1983)

- Homecoming/The Sheikh (1978)          

Apresentadora de TV:

Netflix and Chills with Dr. Elvira (2021)

13 Nights of Elvira   (2014)         

Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010-2011)

The Search for the Next Elvira (2007)

Elvira's Thriller Theatre (1989-1990)

Heavy Metal Heaven (1990)

Elvira’s Movie Macabre (1981 - 1985) : Transmitido pelo canal KHJ-TV channel 9, de Los Angeles (Califórnia).

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Tu dici Stranger Things e io dico anni Ottanta.

Tu dici anni Ottanta e io dico Barret Oliver.

Perché vanno bene le citazioni, gli elenchi ai richiami alla cultura pop di quel decennio che in questa terza stagione targata Netflix sono particolarmente densi, ma è giusto contestualizzare meglio alcune figure, soprattutto se così affascinanti e misteriose come Barret Oliver.

Insomma, chi è costui?

Facciamo un passo indietro. Barret Oliver è stato un attore di punta del cinema statunitense di genere negli anni Ottanta. Il suo volto è indissolubilmente legato ad alcuni personaggi protagonisti di titoli che hanno forgiato quell’immaginario. Il cinema, si sa, è fatto di immagini, ma oltre alle immagini è fatto di icone, che si nutrono delle immagini stesse. Per questo motivo è più facile, per la settima arte, imprimere nell’immaginario figure iconiche, per il fatto stesso che sono impersonificate da volti, corpi, lineamenti che diventano mitografie, simboli, parti essenziali di un meccanismo di riconoscimento immediato. Fin qui ci siamo? Bene.

Siamo nel 1981, un bambino esordisce in veste di attore in un episodio de L’incredibile Hulk, la serie interpretata dal mitico Lou Ferrigno. Come ci è arrivato lì? Barret vive a Los Angeles con la sua famiglia. Ha un bel visino e un amico di famiglia lo propone per il provino di spot televisivi. Da lì al cinema il passo è breve: piccoli ruoli in Scuola di sesso (Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Jerry Belson, 1982), in C’è… un fantasma tra noi due (Kiss Me Goodbye, 1982), un paio di episodi in Supercar in cui rischia addirittura di farsi creare un personaggio fisso appositamente per lui. E via così, con una gavetta neanche troppo scontata, data la giovane età (Barret è nato nel 1973).

A un certo punto partecipa al provino per la parte di Bastian in La storia infinita, film tratto dal bellissimo romanzo di Michael Ende e diretto dall’allora lanciatissimo Wolfgang Petersen. Ma la risposta è no, troppo piccolo, troppo giovane, troppo immaturo. Passa un pochino e ancora l’attore protagonista non si è trovato. E così ci riprovano: Oliver sostiene una seconda audizione in cui stupisce tutti per maturità artistica nel breve lasso di tempo tra i due incontri. È fatta. Ed è la svolta.

Il Bastian di Barret Oliver è la chiave con cui interpretare l’intero film che, nel frattempo, è diventato un vero e proprio cult. Perché ok l’immaginario fantasy, ok quella dimensione di avventura sincera e neanche troppo furbesca, ok la visionarietà a tratti coraggiosa, la maledetta morte di Artax che ha sconvolto un’intera generazione che neanche Bambi: il fulcro della storia è la fragilità di un bambino che deve affrontare il mondo e la vita e crede di non avere gli strumenti per farlo. E quella fragilità, quella delicatezza emozionale è tutta sulle spalle di Barret Oliver, un bambino di nemmeno undici anni. Il Bastian di Barret è un nerd, è senza madre, è perseguitato dai bulli. Si rinchiude nel suo mondo fantastico, fatto di libri. Barret Oliver deve sostenere tutta la tragicità del film senza praticamente partecipare agli eventi principali. Dite quello che volete, La storia infinita non sarebbe stato altrettanto incisivo senza tutte le sfumature di delicatezza messe in scena con il suo corpo e le sue espressioni da Barret Oliver.

Ad ogni modo, La storia infinita gli apre una marea di strade. Assieme a pochi altri, Barret diventa (in maniera anche forzata, come sempre quando si tratta di marketing) il volto dei ragazzini pieni di speranza degli anni Ottanta. Interpreta David in Cocoon – l’energia dell’universo, diretto da Ron Howard. Un ruolo marginale questo, ma essenziale nell’economia del film. Nel 1985 interpreta l’androide Daryl in D.A.R.Y.L. di Simon Wincer: ancora una volta, al di là della qualità della pellicola, è il contributo di Oliver a lasciare meravigliati. Sembra un professionista, l’impegno e l’abnegazione che incanala nelle sue interpretazioni lasciano presagire di trovarci davanti a un enfant prodige. Non a caso, per il ruolo di Daryl, vince un Saturn Award per il miglior attore emergente.

Il tempo passa e Oliver cresce. L’industria cinematografica, talvolta (talvolta?), sa essere spietata e stritola i suoi giocattoli finché può. Se è vero, quindi, che Oliver non può più interpretare il bambino sognante che già conosciamo, è altrettanto vero che può dar sfoggio delle sue qualità. Infatti, nel 1987 interpreta Dickon Sowerby nel film The Secret Garden. Un ragazzo inglese interpretato da un ragazzo statunitense: significativo, no?

Nel 1988 torna nel sequel di Cocoon – il ritorno. Poi, nel 1989, interpreta il figlio un po’ malato della vedova Clare, protagonista di Scene di lotta di classe a Beverly Hills (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills).

Una svolta? Il desiderio di un nuovo percorso da intraprendere? Il film del mutamento? Forse. Non lo sapremo mai. E sapete perché? Perché dopo essere diventato volto icona del cinema degli anni Ottanta, Oliver Barret ha deciso di scomparire. Letteralmente.

Ve lo immaginate? Siete dentro il sistema hollywoodiano, potete scegliere di proseguire con una carriera straordinaria, magari reinventandosi. E invece no, scegliete di scomparire, cioè di annullare l’importanza centrale e cruciale dell’immagine cinematografica, quella che genera il culto, il mito, l’immaginario.

Siete al centro dell’inquadratura, tutti vi guardano e voi scegliete di scomparire. Cosa rimane?

Rimane un’inquadratura vuota.

E tante illazioni.

Che fine ha fatto Barret Oliver?

Ha aderito a Scientology, ne è stato risucchiato per uscirne in qualche modo cambiato, mezzo matto. No.

È entrato nel vortice della droga, è diventato un tossico che ha dovuto intraprendere il difficile percorso di riabilitazione. Niet.

È morto!

Ecco, questo è significativo e può aiutarci a comprendere una figura come Barret Oliver.

In un mondo votato all’apparenza, al culto, all’immagine, alimentato da strumenti voraci come il cinema stesso (e Hollywood in particolare), pensare che un uomo che possa avere tutto questo possa scegliere di ritirarsi, di smetterla, di fare altro, di uscirne fuori è insostenibile. Così insostenibile da dare adito alle più disparate teorie. E se queste teorie non bastano arriva quella più definitiva di tutte: Barret Oliver è morto. Perché non è accettabile che rifiuti la sovraesposizione, i soldi, il successo: quindi è morto.

Invece no. Barret Oliver ha, forse, compreso i meccanismi spietati che lui stesso ha oliato per bene e, con un atto di coraggio rarissimo, ha detto basta. Magari è morto il “personaggio” Barret Oliver, ma non l’uomo.

In tanti lo hanno cercato, ma non c’è stato verso di trovarlo. Almeno fino a quando si è scoperto, anni e anni dopo la sua sparizione (intorno al 2004), che si è specializzato in una tecnica fotografica nota come wet-plate photography. Insegna fotografia e ha scritto saggi a riguardo. Ha smesso di essere il ragazzino perfetto che tutti conosciamo ed è diventato un uomo, un po’ pelato e lunghi dread e una barba lunga e folta, quasi un santone. Ha abbandonato il cinema ma non l’immagine, curioso vero?

E così, quando Dustin in Stranger Things canta, in momento molto bello e ilare, la canzone di La storia infinita, voi ridete, io pure ma nel frattempo penso a Barret Oliver, un uomo che, laddove l’immagine è assoluta nelle dinamiche sociali, ha scelto di togliersi da davanti alla macchina da presa per fuggire e vivere ciò che accade dietro il mirino, in una dimensione intima e, forse, anche più sincera.

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One-tweet review #130- JEKYLL AND HYDE... TOGETHER AGAIN (1982) I thought this was really funny in high school, but that's who it's for. The formula that makes him Mr. Hyde is cocaine and Mr. Hyde becomes a party fiend. This was made when just mentioning drugs was enough to make people laugh.

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Jekyll & Hyde ... Together Again (1982) reseña de la película

Jekyll & Hyde … Together Again (1982) reseña de la película

“Jekyll & Hyde”, por supuesto, tiene otros predecesores. Los créditos dicen que la película "se inspiró en la novela de Robert Louis Stevenson", que es un poco como decir que "Fantasy Island" se inspiró en Robinson Crusoe. Los comunicados de prensa tienen el descaro de imprimir la siguiente oración: "Mark Blankfield (de la fama de ABC 'Fridays') sigue a los grandes del cine John Barrymore,…

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JEKYLL AND HYDE...TOGETHER AGAIN (1982). Duplicated Draft script for the 1982 satirical horror farce, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Jerry Belson's cinematic directorial debut, based on a late-night sketch from ABC's answer to Saturday Night Live, "Fridays," wherein comedian Mark Blankfield played a recurrent cocaine-snorting pharmacist. Belson is best known for sharing writing credits with Steven Speilberg for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and winning three Emmy's for "The Tracey Ullman Show." Ask@royalbooks.com #jekyllandhydetogetheragain #jekyllandhyde #jerrybelson #robertlouisstevenson #exploitation #horror #halloween

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Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) Hei me leikellään (Esselte Video / CIC-Video) "Hullunhauska Jekyll & Hyde -aiheinen tarina aineesta, joka saa vipinää yhteen jos toiseenkin. Kun tri Jekyll on nauttinut outoa ainetta, hänelle tulee kiire päästä housuistaan. Kuuluisan miljonäärin on saatava uudet sisuskalut pysyäkseen hengissä. Täysin päätön komedia varovaisesta kirurgista, joka keksii lievästi sanottuna rajuja vaikutuksia aiheuttavan aineen. Vain pieni annos sitä muuttaa hänet kaupungin menevimmäksi ja rautaisimmaksi mieheksi. Kaiken lisäksi hänen on suoritettava vaikea elintensiirtoleikkaus omalaatuiselle miljonäärille. Mutta kuka olisi valmis luovuttamaan tärkeimmät elimensä tälle vanhalle miehelle? Ja onnistuvatko hössöt hoitajattaret olemaan tiputtelematta verisiä ruumiinosia pitkin lattioita?"

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Comedy icon Jerry Lewis dies at 91

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LOS ANGELES — Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died. He was 91.

Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis died Sunday morning of natural causes at age 91 in Las Vegas with his family by his side.

Lewis’ career spanned the history of show business in the 20th century, beginning in his parents’ vaudeville act at the age of 5. He was just 20 when his pairing with Martin made them international stars. He went on to make such favorites as “The Bellboy” and “The Nutty Professor,” was featured in Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy” and appeared as himself in Billy Crystal’s “Mr. Saturday Night.”

Jerry Lewis attends the ‘Max Rose’ photocall during The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 23, 2013 in Cannes, France. Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images

In the 1990s, he scored a stage comeback as the devil in the Broadway revival of “Damn Yankees.” And after a 20-year break from making movies, Lewis returned as the star of the independent drama “Max Rose,” released in 2016.

In his 80s, he was still traveling the world, working on a stage version of “The Nutty Professor.” He was so active he would sometimes forget the basics, like eating, his associates would recall. In 2012, Lewis missed an awards ceremony thrown by his beloved Friars Club because his blood sugar dropped from lack of food and he had to spend the night in the hospital.

In his 90s, he was still performing standup shows.

A major influence on Jim Carrey and other slapstick performers, Lewis also was known as the ringmaster of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association, joking and reminiscing and introducing guests, sharing stories about ailing kids and concluding with his personal anthem, the ballad “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” From the 1960s onward, the telethons raised some $1.5 billion, including more than $60 million in 2009. He announced in 2011 that he would step down as host, but would remain chairman of the association he joined some 60 years ago.

His fundraising efforts won him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2009 Oscar telecast, an honor he said “touches my heart and the very depth of my soul.” But the telethon was also criticized for being mawkish and exploitative of children, known as “Jerry’s Kids.” A 1960s muscular dystrophy poster boy, Mike Ervin, later made a documentary called “The Kids Are All Alright,” in which he alleged that Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association had treated him and others as objects of pity rather than real people.

“He and his telethon symbolize an antiquated and destructive 1950s charity mentality,” Ervin wrote in 2009.

Responded Lewis: “You don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!”

He was the classic funnyman who longed to play “Hamlet,” crying as hard as he laughed. He sassed and snarled at critics and interviewers who displeased him. He pontificated on talk shows, lectured to college students and compiled his thoughts in the 1971 book “The Total Film-Maker.”

“I believe, in my own way, that I say something on film. I’m getting to those who probably don’t have the mentality to understand what … ‘A Man for All Seasons’ is all about, plus many who did understand it,” he wrote. “I am not ashamed or embarrassed at how seemingly trite or saccharine something in my films will sound. I really do make films for my great-great-grandchildren and not for my fellows at the Screen Directors Guild or for the critics.”

In his early movies, he played the kind of fellows who would have had no idea what the elder Lewis was talking about: loose-limbed, buck-toothed, overgrown adolescents, trouble-prone and inclined to wail when beset by enemies. American critics recognized the comedian’s popular appeal but not his aspirations to higher art; the French did. Writing in Paris’ Le Monde newspaper, Jacques Siclier praised Lewis’ “apish allure, his conduct of a child, his grimaces, his contortions, his maladjustment to the world, his morbid fear of women, his way of disturbing order everywhere he appeared.”

The French government awarded Lewis the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1983 and Commander of Arts and Letters the following year. Film critic Andrew Sarris observed: “The fact that Lewis lacks verbal wit on the screen doesn’t particularly bother the French.”

Lewis had teamed up with Martin after World War II, and their radio and stage antics delighted audiences, although not immediately. Their debut, in 1946 at Atlantic City’s 500 Club, was a bust. Warned by owner “Skinny” D’Amato that they might be fired, Martin and Lewis tossed the script and improvised their way into history. New York columnists Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan came to the club and raved over the sexy singer and the berserk clown.

Lewis described their fledgling act in his 1982 autobiography, “Jerry Lewis in Person”: “We juggle and drop a few dishes and try a few handstands. I conduct the three-piece band with one of my shoes, burn their music, jump offstage, run around the tables, sit down with the customers and spill things while Dean keeps singing.”

Hollywood producer Hal Wallis saw them at New York’s Copacabana and signed them to a film contract. Martin and Lewis first appeared in supporting roles in “My Friend Irma” and “My Friend Irma Goes West.” Then they began a hit series of starring vehicles, including “At War With the Army,” ”That’s My Boy” and “Artists and Models.”

But in the mid-1950s, their partnership began to wear. Lewis longed for more than laughs. Martin had tired of playing straight man and of Lewis’ attempts to add Chaplinesque pathos. He also wearied of the pace of films, television, nightclub and theater appearances, benefits and publicity junkets on which Lewis thrived. The rift became increasingly public as the two camps sparred verbally.

“I knew we were in trouble the day someone gave Jerry a book about Charlie Chaplin,” Martin cracked.

On July 24, 1956, Martin and Lewis closed shop, at the Copa, and remained estranged for years. Martin, who died in 1995, did make a dramatic, surprise appearance on Lewis’ telethon in 1976 (a reunion brokered by mutual pal Frank Sinatra), and director Peter Bogdonavich nearly persuaded them to appear in a film together as former colleagues who no longer speak to each other. After Martin’s death, Lewis said the two had again become friendly during his former partner’s final years and he would repeatedly express his admiration for Martin above all others.

The entertainment trade at first considered Martin the casualty of the split, since his talents, except as a singer, were unexplored. He fooled his detractors by cultivating a comic, drunken persona, becoming star of a long-running TV variety show and a respected actor in such films as “Some Came Running,” ”The Young Lions” and “Rio Bravo.”

Lewis also distinguished himself after the break, revealing a serious side as unexpected as Martin’s gift for comedy.

He brought in comedy director Frank Tashlin for “Rock-a-bye Baby,” ”Cinderfella,” ”The Disorderly Orderly,” ”The Geisha Boy” and “Who’s Minding the Store?”, in which he did a pantomime of a typist trying to keep up with Leroy Anderson’s speedy song “The Typewriter.”

With “The Bellboy,” though, Lewis assumed the posts of producer, director, writer and star, like his idol Chaplin. Among his hits under his own direction was the 1963 “The Nutty Professor,” playing a dual Jekyll and Hyde role, transforming himself from a nerdy college teacher to a sexy (and conceited) lounge singer, Buddy Love, regarded as a spoof of his old partner Martin.

He also directed “The Patsy,” ”The Errand Boy,” ”The Family Jewels” and “The Big Mouth.” Lewis’ more recent film credits included such low-budget releases as “Arizona Dream,” co-starring Johnny Depp, and “Max Rose,” which came out in 2016. He had a guest shot on television’s “Mad About You” and was seen briefly in Eddie Murphy’s remake of “The Nutty Professor.”

He was born Joseph Levitch in Newark, New Jersey, on March 16, 1926. His father, billed as Danny Lewis, was a singer on the borscht and burlesque circuits. His mother played piano for Danny’s act. Their only child was often left alone in hotel rooms, or lived in Brooklyn with his paternal grandparents, Russian Jewish immigrants, or his aunts in New Jersey.

“All my life I’ve been afraid of being alone,” Lewis once said. In his later years the solitude haunted him, and he surrounded himself with an entourage at work and at home.

Joey Levitch made his professional debut at age 5, singing the Depression tearjerker “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” to great applause. He recalled that he eventually lost all interest in school and “began to clown around to attract people’s attention.”

By 16, Jerry Lewis (as his billing read) had dropped out of school and was earning as much as $150 a week as a solo performer. He appeared in a “record act,” mouthing crazily to the records of Danny Kaye, Spike Jones and other artists. Rejected by the Army because of a heart murmur and punctured eardrum, Lewis entertained troops in World War II and continued touring with his lip-sync act. In 1944 he married Patti Palmer, a band vocalist.

The following year he met Martin, on a March day in 1945 in Manhattan, Broadway and 54th to be exact. Lewis was on his way to see an agent, walking with a friend, when his friend spotted an “incredibly handsome” man wearing a camel’s hair coat. Lewis and Martin were introduced and Lewis knew right off that this new acquaintance, nine years older than him, was “the real deal.”

“‘Harry Horses,’ I thought,” Lewis wrote in the memoir “Dean and Me,” published in 2005. “That was what we used to call a guy who thought he was smooth with the ladies. Anybody who wore a camel’s-hair overcoat, with a camel’s-hair belt and fake diamond cuff links, was automatically Harry Horses.”

Lewis couldn’t escape from small-time bookings. The same was true of Martin, who sang romantic songs in nightclubs. In 1946, Lewis was playing the 500 Club, and the seats were empty. Lewis suggested hiring Martin to bolster the bill, promising he could do comedy as well as sing.

Fame brought him women and Lewis wrote openly of his many partners. After 36 years of marriage and six sons, Patti Lewis sued her husband for divorce in 1982. She later wrote a book claiming that he was an adulterer and drug addict who abused their children. Son Gary became a pop singer whose group, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, had a string of hits in 1965-66.

In his late 50s, Lewis married Sandra Pitnick, 32, a former airline stewardess. They had a daughter, Dani, named for Jerry’s father.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/20/comedy-icon-jerry-lewis-dies-at-91/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/comedy-icon-jerry-lewis-dies-at-91/

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Jekyll And Hyde… Together Again (1982)

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Jekyll and Hyde together again 1982