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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. Despite ...
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.
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.
Jun 19, 2024 · My Fair Lady. ★★★★ out of 4 stars ... abso-bloomin'-lutely loverly ... Like Eliza, you'll be left dancing all night and still begging for more. – Toronto Star. This timeless classic has been dazzling audiences since its debut on Broadway in 1956.
Jun 22, 2024 · 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 ...
Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society.
In this beloved musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into...
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Jan 1, 2006 · "My Fair Lady," with its dialogue drawn from Shaw, was trickier and more challenging than most other stage musicals; the dialogue not only incorporated Shavian theory, wit and ideology, but required Eliza to master a transition from Cockney to the Queen's English.
The next day Eliza arrives at Higgins' house, prepared to pay for diction lessons so that she may realize her dream of obtaining a position in a shop. With Pickering's help, Higgins begins a complete transformation of Eliza. Her first public appearance at the Ascot horseraces is a dubious success.
Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in the witty musical "My Fair Lady". The story unfolds as Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) makes a bet that he can transform flower girl Eliza Dolittle...
