Although the studio desperately wanted her for the position, Pinkett Smith felt that playing Carla Purty in The Nutty Professor would be a better fit. The role in Independence Day ultimately went ...

Buddy Love is the kind of man who Professor Klump thinks can romance fellow professor Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett Smith). Buddy Love is also the 1980s Eddie Murphy persona that we all claim to ...

After a date with chemistry student Carla Purty goes badly, a depressed Klump tries the solution on himself. Though he instantly loses 250 pounds, the side effects include a second personality ...

The film also starred Janet Jackson as Denise Gaines, replacing Jada Pinkett's role as Carla Purty from the first film. Nutty Professor II picked up four years after the events of the previous ...

"The Nutty Professor" was one of Pinkett Smith's earliest film roles. She starred as Carla Purty, Eddie Murphy's on-screen love interest, in the comedy. "This was a rough one," she said of the wig ...

When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing ...

After a date with chemistry student Carla Purty goes badly, a depressed Klump tries the solution on himself. Though he instantly loses 250 pounds, the side effects include a second personality ...