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My Fair Lady

  • 19641964
  • GG
  • 2h 50m
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My Fair Lady (1964)
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In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
IMDb RATING
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95K
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POPULARITY
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223
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    • Director
      • George Cukor
    • Writers
      • Alan Jay Lerner(book of musical play)
      • George Bernard Shaw(from a play by)
    • Stars
      • Audrey Hepburn
      • Rex Harrison
      • Stanley Holloway
    Top credits
    • Director
      • George Cukor
    • Writers
      • Alan Jay Lerner(book of musical play)
      • George Bernard Shaw(from a play by)
    • Stars
      • Audrey Hepburn
      • Rex Harrison
      • Stanley Holloway
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 382User reviews
    • 107Critic reviews
    • 95Metascore
    • Won 8 Oscars
      • 25 wins & 13 nominations total

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    Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, and Jeremy Brett in My Fair Lady (1964)
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    Top cast

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    Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn
    • Eliza Doolittle
    Rex Harrison
    Rex Harrison
    • Professor Henry Higgins
    Stanley Holloway
    Stanley Holloway
    • Alfred P. Doolittle
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    • Colonel Hugh Pickering
    Gladys Cooper
    Gladys Cooper
    • Mrs. Higgins
    Jeremy Brett
    Jeremy Brett
    • Freddy Eynsford-Hill
    Theodore Bikel
    Theodore Bikel
    • Zoltan Karpathy
    Mona Washbourne
    Mona Washbourne
    • Mrs. Pearce
    Isobel Elsom
    Isobel Elsom
    • Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
    John Holland
    John Holland
    • Butler
    Elizabeth Aimers
    • Cockney
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Albrecht
    • Ascot Extra
    • (uncredited)
    John Alderson
    • Jamie - Doolittle's crony
    • (uncredited)
    Mary Alexander
    • Cockney
    • (uncredited)
    LaWana Backer
    • Ad Lib at Church
    • (uncredited)
    Walter Bacon
    • Ball Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Al Bain
    Al Bain
    • Cockney
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Baker
    Frank Baker
    • Gentleman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • George Cukor
    • Writers
      • Alan Jay Lerner(book of musical play) (screenplay)
      • George Bernard Shaw(from a play by)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      When Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle) was first informed that her voice wasn't strong enough and that she would have to be dubbed, she walked out. She returned the next day and, in a typically graceful Hepburn gesture, apologized to everybody for her "wicked behavior."
    • Goofs
      When Prof. Higgins sings "An Ordinary Man" he turns on several phonographs, seconds later he turns off one of them but all of the sounds stop.
    • Quotes

      Eliza Doolittle: The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated.

    • Crazy credits
      In the posters, playbills and the original cast album for the stage version of "My Fair Lady", the credits always read "based on Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' ", letting the audience know what play "My Fair Lady" was actually adapted from. The movie credits simply read "from a play by Bernard Shaw".
    • Alternate versions
      In the remastered version of the film, some of the scene changes are changed from sudden cuts to wipe outs, as they probably were when the film was released. When CBS Fox released it on video originally, they were changed to sudden cuts.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Ed Sullivan Show: Episode #18.17 (1965)
    • Soundtracks
      Why Can't the English?
      (1956) (uncredited)

      Music by Frederick Loewe

      Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

      Performed by Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Audrey Hepburn

    User reviews382

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Funny thing about musicals from this era...
    ... that being the late 50s to the late 60s. They don't particularly age well .Looking back on them in the context of the 1960s they seem downright anachronistic. . At least this film is not offensive. Gigi, which won Best Picture of 1958, has a young woman's relatives trying to turn her into a prostitute, from which she wisely figures out there is no coming back, while Maurice Chevalier musically ogles little girls from the shelter of the bushes. That one didn't age well in a bunch of ways.

    This one has fabulous music, magnificent art design, quite a bit of great dry humor, and perfect casting - except I really wish James Cagney had taken the part of Eliza's father. It would have made a great bookend for his film career. The direction is perfectly on target for late career George Cukor. He won Best Director Oscar for this and didn't make another film for five years.

    Rex Harrison certainly deserved his Best Actor Oscar as misanthropic phoneticist Henry Higgins. He is both stern and humorous, his vocals in both song and word are alive and nothing less than perfect. Also, Wilfrid Hyde-White as Pickering adds a great deal to the film, and I appreciate him more on successive viewings.

    Thus it is hard to give a film with such great production values less than a 7/10. I have a couple of problems with it. First, it is just too long. Clocking in at two hours and fifty minutes, there is just too much movie for too little story. Pygmalian, starring Leslie Howard, was perfect at ninety minutes, and I actually prefer that film to this one. Second, I don't like the resolution because there isn't one. After all of that squabbling at Higgins' mother's house, after Higgins realizing he has "grown accustomed to her face", the end is just a let down. Had it gone on any longer it would have become Season Four of Moonlighting.
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    FAQ5

    • What is 'My Fair Lady' about?
    • Is 'My Fair Lady' based on a book?
    • Who (or what) is Pygmalion?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 25, 1964 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Facebook
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Moja draga dama
    • Filming locations
      • Stage 16, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $17,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $72,560,711
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $354,764
      • Feb 17, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $72,632,653
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 50 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.20 : 1

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