My Fair Lady
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My Fair Lady at the Arts Center: If you don't love this show, you don't love theater...aristocrats takes the stage of the arts center next week. Casey Colgan, who directed last season's "Les Miserables," returns for "My Fair Lady," which opens in previews Wednesday and Thursday and officially opens Dec. 4. An actor as well... In this article: Eliza, My Fair Lady, My Fair Lady, Guinea pig, I Could Have Danced All Night, and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face |
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TC Palm | 3 days ago
Classic 'Camelot' National tour brings Broadway favorite to Sunrise Theatre on Saturday
...was created by famed duo Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) on the heels of their great success with "My Fair Lady. " But the realization of the show was a difficult process, fraught with horrible illness and...
In this article: Camelot, Camelot, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Julie Andrews, John F. Kennedy, Lancelot, and Arthur
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TC Palm | 4 days ago
Theater review: 'Broadway Nights' an enjoyable evening of memorable songs
...the repertoire are songs from some of the most memorable shows ever staged on the Great White Way: "The Phantom of the Opera," "Evita," "My Fair Lady," "South Pacific," "Hello, Dolly" and others. The closing New York medley includes "New...
In this article: New York, Dessert, Sheraton Hotel, and Hello, Dolly
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Columbia Daily Tribune | 4 days ago
Palin reveals how real Americans live
...be somewhat American because I agreed with Palin that she was undercut by Nicole Wallace, one of the aides sent by John McCain to do the "My Fair Lady" makeover. Wallace had had a contract at CBS News and was determined to get the big...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Washington, D.C., John McCain, Katie Couric, Alaska, Potato, The Sound of Music, and Ronald Reagan
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Playbill.com | November 20, 2009
Sweet Charity Begins Performances at London's Menier Chocolate Factory Nov. 21
...include Funny Girl for Chichester Festival Theatre, The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre, The Vortex for the Donmar Warehouse and My Fair Lady, Candide and The Merchant of Venice for the National Theatre. Director Matthew White has...
In this article: Sweet Charity, West End, London, Bob Fosse, Prince of Wales, Paul J. Medford, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Mark Umbers
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Cele-bitchy | November 20, 2009
Daniel Day-Lewis in 'Nine': still hot as hell
...simply observe. Danny Boyle, who directed Slumdog Millionaire, wanted Day-Lewis to play Henry Higgins in the much talked about new My Fair Lady film, but Boyle left the project when he was not able to secure the actor's services. Day-Lewis...
In this article: Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine, Rob Marshall, Danny Boyle, and Robert Pattinson
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washingtonpost.com | November 20, 2009
Actress Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe up for auction
...first starring role as a runaway princess in "Roman Holiday, Hepburn, who is also known for roles as divergent as cockney Eliza in "My Fair Lady" and a terrorized blind woman in "Wait Until Dark," had "a purity and an innocence and a...
In this article: Audrey Hepburn, Unicef, Waste, Oscar, Sotheby's, Givenchy, and Wait Until Dark
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Times Online | November 15, 2009
Small business needs help not warm words
...want to be loved - but with actions not words. I hope X Factor contestants sing from musicals soon. As Eliza Doolittle sang to Freddy in My Fair Lady: "Don't talk of love, burning above, if you're in love, show me ... show me now. " Julia...
In this article: Small business, Recession, Tax, X Factor, Britain, Cass Business School, BBC 4, Teachers' TV, Itunes, and Federation of Small Businesses
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Independent.ie | November 13, 2009
'I think because of childhood stuff I've always wanted fantasy'
...for her mum and went on to score an international number one with Perfect Moment. When the pop bubble burst, she really did become My Fair Lady in a revival at London's National Theatre. Later, in the movie Love Actually, she was the tea...
In this article: Martine McCutcheon, God, Audrey Hepburn, and Lynda La Plante
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HitFix | October 30, 2009
The Morning Read: Joe Wright calls 'My Fair Lady' reports 'a lie'
...analysis to fans of Movies, Music, TV and Local Events. Inside Movies & DVD with Drew McWeeny The Morning Read: Joe Wright calls 'My Fair Lady' reports 'a lie' Posted on Friday, Oct 30, 2009 By Drew McWeeny The late great Robert Altman...
In this article: Robert Altman, Halloween, Benadryl, Headache, and Drew McWeeny
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My Fair Lady is a musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based in turn on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. ==Plot==
Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant, irascible, misogynistic professor of phonetics, believes that it is accents and the tone of one's voice which holds back a person's prospects and hopes for advancement in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), himself an expert in phonetics, that he can teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. The person whom he uses as an example is one Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), a young woman from the London slums with a strong Cockney accent and who sells flowers on the street.
Eliza's big ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her thick working-class accent makes her unsuitable for such a position. She therefore goes to Higgins' house and offers to pay for speech lessons. All she can afford however is a shilling per lesson while Higgins is used to training wealthier members of society and charging heavily. Pickering, who is staying with Higgins, is amused by the idea of passing a common flower girl off as a Duchess and bets Higgins all the expenses of the lessons that he will not be able to do it — thus, in a roundabout way, setting up a bet that he, Pickering, would be glad to lose. Inspired by such a challenge, Higgins takes it up.
- Name:
- My Fair Lady
- Release Date:
- January 01, 0025
- Directed By:
- George Cukor
- Produced by:
- Jack L. Warner
- Written By:
- Editor:
- William H. Ziegler
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Harry Stradling Sr.
- Music By:
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- Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
- Frederick Loewe (music)
- Distributed By:
- Warner Bros.
- Length:
- 171 minutes
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