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1 day ago · The wholesome charm he brought to his later Disney movies The Shaggy Dog (1959) and The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) is evident here. That’s what makes his performance so fascinating. He is ...
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Jun 14, 2024 · Nominated for its special effects, black-and-white art direction, and black-and-white cinematography, The Absent Minded Professor was the first Disney film to inspire a sequel—1963's Son of Flubber—and was remade in 1997 with Robin Williams, titled simply Flubber.
3 days ago · In this contemporary reimagining of The Absent-Minded Professor, Robin Williams stars as the eccentric Professor Philip Brainard, whose groundbreaking invention of "flubber" sends him on a series of comedic misadventures.
Jun 14, 2024 · I am 70 years old but have had short term memory issues all my life - known as the absent minded professor since childhood. This has recently shown a marked deterioration. MRI shows non specific white matter disease which my Neurologist describes as age related.
Jun 25, 2024 · The Absent Minded Professor (1961) Fred MacMurray, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Olson. Hailed as one of Walt Disney’s most hilarious comedies, THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR contains two essential elements for laughter – Fred MacMurray and Flubber, his gravity-defying formula for flying rubber!
2 days ago · He developed a reputation for carelessness in his dress and was the archetype of the absent-minded professor. H. Allen Orr describes him in the Boston Review as a "deeply devout Anglican who, between founding modern statistics and population genetics, penned articles for church magazines". In a 1955 broadcast on Science and Christianity, he said:
