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My Fair Lady (1964)
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Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness...
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My Fair Lady Movie Review by Jarrod  (11/9/2007) |
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'My Fair Lady' is one of my favorite musicals. It has a romance that is never expressed openly, between Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) and Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). She is a c*ckney street waif who sells flowers, he is a stuffy phonetics professor who bets a colleague that he can turn Eliza into an elegant, refined...
(complete My Fair Lady review by Jarrod)
It is unfortunate that the studio would not give Julie Andrews the chance to reprise her work as Eliza Doolittle on Broadway here in the film version. Instead they went with the far more commercial Audrey Hepburn and dubbed her singing with another actress.
Rex Harrison is great as Henry Higgins, he keeps the film alive...
(complete My Fair Lady review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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