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Wilfrid Lawson | ... | |
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Marie Lohr | ... | |
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Scott Sunderland | ... | |
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Jean Cadell | ... | |
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David Tree | ... | |
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Everley Gregg | ... | |
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Leueen MacGrath | ... | |
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Esme Percy | ... | |
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Violet Vanbrugh | ... |
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Iris Hoey | ... |
Ysabel, Social Reporter
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Viola Tree | ... |
Perfide, Social Reporter
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Irene Browne | ... |
Duchess
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Kate Cutler | ... |
Grand Old Lady
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The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own. Written by Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
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?