| My Fair Lady (1964)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Audrey Hepburn |
Eliza Doolittle
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| Rex Harrison |
Prof. Henry Higgins
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| Stanley Holloway |
Alfred P. Doolittle
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| Wilfrid Hyde-White |
Col. Pickering
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| Gladys Cooper |
Mrs. Higgins
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| Jeremy Brett |
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
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| Theodore Bikel |
Zoltan Karpathy
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| Mona Washbourne |
Mrs. Pearce
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| John Holland |
Butler
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| Barbara Morrison |
Ad Libs at Church
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| Isobel Elsom |
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
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| John Alderson |
Jamie (uncredited)
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| Wilfred Hyde-White |
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| Plot |
| At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion . Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle ( Audrey Hepburn ) meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins ( Rex Harrison ). After delivering a musical tirade against "verbal class distinction," Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering ( Wilfred Hyde-White ) that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, offering to pay him to teach her to be a lady. "It's almost irresistable," clucks Higgins. "She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty." He turns his mission into a sporting proposition, making a bet with Pickering that he can accomplish his six-month miracle to turn Eliza into a lady. This is one of the all-time great movie musicals, featuring classic songs and the legendary performances of Harrison, repeating his stage role after Cary Grant wisely turned down the movie job, and Stanley Holloway as Eliza's dustman father. Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza on Broadway but producer Jack Warner felt that Andrews, at the time unknown beyond Broadway, wasn't bankable; Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon , who also dubbed Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). Andrews instead made Mary Poppins , for which she was given the Best Actress Oscar, beating out Hepburn. The movie, however, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Harrison, and five other Oscars, and it remains one of the all-time best movie musicals. — Hal Erickson |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy; Drama; Family; Musical; Romance |
| Director |
George Cukor |
| Producer |
Jack Warner |
| Writer |
George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner |
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| Studio |
Warner Bros. |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
G |
| Running Time |
170 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
12/25/1964 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
259 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
5/14/2004 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 2.20:1 Color |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
085391666820 |
| Chapters |
50 |
| Release Date |
12/8/1998 |
| Subtitles |
English; French |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
 FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Interactive Menus
Feature Length Audio Commentary
Behind-the-Scenes Documentary
Alternate Audrey Hepburn Vocal Versions of Show Me and Wouldn't It Be Lovely?
Production Notes
4 Theatrical Trailers
Scene Access |
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