My Fair Lady (1964)

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My Fair Lady movie storyline. One of the best and most popular musicals of all-time, from Lerner and Loewe – based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion.

Arrogant, fastidious, linguistics Professor Henry Higgins (Harrison repeating his Tony Award-winning performance on Broadway) wagers fellow linguist Colonel Hugh Pickering (Hyde-White) that he can transform a Cockney flower-selling, street urchin Eliza Doolittle (Hepburn) – a ‘guttersnipe’ – into a proper lady with prescribed diction/elocution lessons.

The irrepressible ‘guttersnipe’ is scrubbed, dressed, and tutored, in time to attend the Ascot races and a society ball. In the end, he reluctantly falls in love with Eliza. Includes songs “On the Street Where You Live,” “Get Me to the Church on Time,” and “I Could Have Danced All Night.”

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak “proper” English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London.

The film stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison as Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins respectively, with Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper and Wilfrid Hyde-White in supporting roles. A critical and commercial success, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. In 1998, the American Film Institute named it the 91st greatest American film of all time.

Directed by: George Cukor
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, John Holland, Isobel Elsom
Screenplay by: George Bernard Shaw
Cinematography by: Harry Stradling Sr.
Film Editing by: William H. Ziegler
Costume Design by: Cecil Beaton, Michael Neuwirth
Set Decoration by: George James Hopkins
Art Direction by: Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, Malcolm C. Bert
Music by: André Previn
MPAA Rating: G for all audience.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures,
Release Date: November 9, 1964