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starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison directed by: George Cukor

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Average Rating: Rating: - ONE OF THE GREAT ENTERTAINMENTS This is a splendid example of a splendid movie. "My Fair Lady" gives richly to its audience through its gorgeous sets and costumes, vibrant and exhilirating music, crisp and memorable performances, and perfectly stylized direction. Stylized enough to win the picture a rare eight Academy Awards including 1964's Best Actor, Best Director, and the coveted Best Picture. George Cukor directs the prodution with a trademark flourish and wit that makes it an even greater pleasure to watch. Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison, in his Oscar-winning role) meets up with a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle (a perfectly endearing and charming Audrey Hepburn). Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) that within six months he could pass the grubby Cockney off as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. Eliza cannot resist Higgins' offer, and he tutors her in the proper manner of society and speech. There are some genuinely great scenes with Hepburn and Harrison during several unorthodox speech exercises, which are very witty. The golden songs are spectacular and still popular today, such as "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" and "The Rain In Spain" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" among them. And the film is absolutely a motherlode of beautiful scenes: Hepburn and her Cockney friends dancing to "Loverly", Hepburn, Harrison, and Hyde-White's joyous rendition of "Rain in Spain", the Ascot scene featuring a perfectly delicious Hepburn, the Embassy Ball scene where Hepburn is believed to be a foreign princess, and the unbearably romantic final scene between Hepburn and Harrison are worth every cent. Every scene is beautifully painted in glorious Technicolor, adding only another splash to this elegant spectacle. "My Fair Lady" is a timeless entertainment, a film that should be seen at least once... and I guarantee you that if you do see it once, it won't be enough! Rating: - Beautiful Lady 1964's My Fair Lady was the screen version of the popular Broadway play. The play and the film is based George Bernard Shaw's story Pygmailon and the essence of the story is that Professor Henry Higgins, who is a phonetics professors, makes a bet with his friends that he can turn a cockney flower girl into a refined lady and pass her off as a duchess. Rex Harrison reprises his role as the professor and the beautiful Audrey Hepburn is the flower girl, Eliza Doolittle. Julie Andrews was Eliza in the stage version but was passed over for the part as she had never before starred in a film (Ms. Andrews exacted some revenge as she got the part of Mary Poppins and won the Best Actress Oscar that year while Ms. Hepburn was not even nominated). Noted director George Cukor creates vivid sets and stages subtle, yet enjoyable musical numbers. While Mr. Harrison sings all his own parts, Ms. Hepburn's voice is dubbed by Marni Nixon (who also provided the singing parts for Natalie Wood in West Side Story). This is a shame as while Ms. Hepburn did not having the strongest singing voice, it was certainly adequate enough and would have provided more authenticity to role. My Fair Lady is a classic Hollywood musical and cleaned up at the 1964 Academy Awards winning eight times including, Best Picture, Mr. Cukor for Best Director and Mr. Harrison for Best Actor. Rating: - Everyone's Fair Lady rules The true standout in this film is the plot itself --- working girl wishes to better her flower-selling career by improving her diction, and the speech teacher wishes to prove something about society by using her in a bet. The girl works hard and, in the process, falls in love with the teacher, who barely thinks of her in return. Hepburn shines as Eliza, even with the singing of Marni Nixon as her singing voice (who also sang for Natalie Wood in West Side Story.) But Rex Harrison is the true star in his piggish, ambitious, gruff Henry Higgins. He seems to truly believe his words as he sings the reasons of why "I shall Never let a woman in my life". Stanley Holloway as Eliza's drunken father in "Get Me to the Church on Time" is also a winner. Looking at the men in her life, it's no wonder Eliza wants to improve herself rather than look for a man to help her out! (Julie Andrews created the role on Broadway and then beat out Hepburn for Best Actress with "Mary Poppins", so all's well that ends well! I can't imagine either movie being made with another actress in that role.)

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