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Synopsis. Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics, boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess.
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.
Jan 1, 2006 · A musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play, starring Audrey Hepburn as a flower girl who learns to speak like a lady from a linguist. The film features literate and beloved songs, witty dialogue, and a twist on the original ending.
My Fair Lady, American musical film, released in 1964, that was adapted from the long-running Broadway musical of the same name and proved to be a great popular and critical success. The movie, which starred Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, won eight Academy Awards, including that for best picture. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
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My Fair Lady: Directed by George Cukor. With Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White. In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
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- Drama, Family, Musical
- George Cukor
- 1964-12-25
Plot Summary Eliza Doolittle is a young Cockney woman who is selling flowers in Covent Garden when a wealthy man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill crashes into her, causing her to drop and ruin her flowers, and is ushered off by his mother without paying.
Sep 23, 1994 · The story is well-known. Eliza (Hepburn) is first insulted for her accent by the famous linguist Higgins (Harrison), and then offers him a shilling a lesson to teach her to speak like a lady. Higgins and his friend Col. Pickering ( Wilfred Hyde-White) make a bet on the outcome, and Higgins transforms Eliza in six months.
