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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
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw 's 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
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 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.
- $17 million
- Frederick Loewe
- October 21, 1964
- Jack L. Warner
Brief Synopsis. A phonetics instructor bets that he can pass a street urchin off as a lady. Cast & Crew. Read More. George Cukor. Director. Audrey Hepburn. Eliza Doolittle. Rex Harrison. Henry Higgins. Stanley Holloway. Alfred Doolittle. Wilfrid Hyde-white. Colonel Pickering. Gladys Cooper. Mrs. Higgins. Photos & Videos. View All.
- George Cukor, David Hall
- Audrey Hepburn
Eliza Doolittle, fictional character, a Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a woman of poise and polish in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (performed 1913; filmed 1938; adapted as the stage musical My Fair Lady, 1956; filmed 1964).
Jan 1, 2006 · Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn and Wilfrid Hyde-White in "My Fair Lady." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "My Fair Lady" is the best and most unlikely of musicals, during which I cannot decide if I am happier when the characters are talking or when they are singing.
