My Fair Lady - A Movie Review

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"My Fair Lady" is a musical drama which was released in 1964. The screenplay is by Alan Jay Lerner adapted from the Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on the 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The movie was a critical and commercial success with a budget of $17 million; box office receipts were $72 million. The film won 8 Academy Awards. In 1998 the AFI named it the 91st greatest American film of all time. In 2006 it was #8 on the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list. CAST Audrey Hepburn - Eliza Doolittle Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins Stanley Holloway - Alfred P. Doolittle Wilfrid Hyde-White - Colonel Hugh Pickering Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Higgins Jeremy Brett - Freddy Eynsford-Hill Theodore Bikel - Zoltan Karpathy Mona Washbourne - Mrs. Pearce Isobel Elsom - Mrs. Eynsford-Hill John Holland - The Butler Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, boasts to his new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering, that he can take any woman off the street and teach her to speak properly and then pass her off as a duchess. Eliza Doolittle has a very pronounced Cockney accent and sells flowers on the street. She overhears Professor Higgins and goes to his house to inquire about taking speech lessons. She wants to be able to work in a flower shop. Pickering wagers Higgins that he cannot take Eliza and make a lady out of her. Higgins takes on Eliza free of charge. If you want to find out what happens, you will have to watch the movie. You will enjoy the movie as much as the music; and Audrey Hepburn is a gem in this movie. I give "My Fair Lady" my wholehearted recommendation. This movie is rated G.