Filming Locations: Terrace Theatre - 300 E. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $300,000
Gross: $15,800,000 (USA)
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Cast
Actor
Character
Richard Pryor
Himself
Patti LaBelle
Herself (scenes deleted)
Jennifer Lee
Herself (uncredited)
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Trivia
Second of four Richard Pryor live performance concert films. The others are Richard Pryor... Here and Now (1983), Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin' (1971), and Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982).
Huey P. Newton was sitting in the audience. Richard Pryor announces this fact to the audience but Newton is not actually shown in the film. Director Jeff Margolis later explained that he had no cameras aimed at the audience, but would have had he known Pryor was going to introduce him.
The film's opening credits declare: "Patti LaBelle was an important part of the following program. Time does not permit us to include her in this recording but we gratefully acknowledge her performance".
Richard Pryor: And it seemed fair to kill my car to me, right, 'cause my wife was gonna leave my ass. And I said "not in this mother fucker you ain't. If you leave, you be driving those Hush Puppies you got on."
Richard Pryor: I like makin' love myself, and I can make love for about three minutes. I do about three minutes of serious fuckin', then I need eight hours sleep! And a bowl of Wheaties!