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Overview
Release Date:
3 March 1939 (USA) moreTagline:
He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly ! . . . See Wendy Hiller, new star discovery, in this amazing role ! morePlot:
Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Knightley Prepares For My Fair Lady Lead (From WENN. 6 June 2008, 3:59 AM, PDT)
Knightley in talks for 'My Fair Lady' (From digitalspy. 6 June 2008, 2:16 AM, PDT)
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Good, and definitely not My Fair Lady moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Leslie Howard | ... | Professor Henry Higgins |
| Wendy Hiller | ... | Eliza Doolittle |
| Wilfrid Lawson | ... | Alfred Doolittle |
| Marie Lohr | ... | Mrs. Higgins |
| Scott Sunderland | ... | Colonel George Pickering |
| Jean Cadell | ... | Mrs. Pearce |
| David Tree | ... | Freddy Eynsford-Hill |
| Everley Gregg | ... | Mrs. Eynsford-Hill |
| Leueen MacGrath | ... | Clara Eynsford Hill |
| Esme Percy | ... | Count Aristid Karpathy |
| Violet Vanbrugh | ... | Ambassadress |
| Iris Hoey | ... | Ysabel, Social Reporter |
| Viola Tree | ... | Perfide, Social Reporter |
| Irene Browne | ... | Duchess (as Irene Brown) |
| Kate Cutler | ... | Grand Old Lady |
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96 min | USA:89 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Wide Range System)Certification:
Canada:G (Ontario) | South Korea:12 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #4845)Filming Locations:
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UKMOVIEmeter: 
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The property buyer is manning one of the market stalls at the beginning -- Baden Siddall. moreQuotes:
First Policeman: [to Eliza and Freddie, who are kissing on the street] Now then, now then, now then. This isn't Paris, you know. moreFAQ
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After seeing Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins, there is no way I could find Rex Harrison half as appealing, with his chanting/singing, in My Fair Lady. Leslie Howard simply is Henry Higgins, and if he seems unappealing and unlikable, that's because he's supposed to be unappealing and unlikable -- Henry Higgins is not a nice man. Howard does an incredible job with the role, and Wendy Hiller's Eliza puts Audrey Hepburn, as lovely as she is, to shame.
If George Bernard Shaw thought that Howard's interpretation of his play was good, then who are we to argue?