My Fair Lady. Clip Photos Top cast Edit. Stanley Holloway Alfred P. Doolittle as Alfred P. Gladys Cooper Mrs. Higgins as Mrs.
Mona Washbourne Mrs. Pearce as Mrs. Isobel Elsom Mrs. Eynsford-Hill as Mrs. John Holland Butler as Butler. Elizabeth Aimers Cockney as Cockney uncredited. Mary Alexander Cockney as Cockney uncredited. Al Bain Cockney as Cockney uncredited. Frank Baker Gentleman as Gentleman uncredited.
George Cukor. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins Sir Rex Harrison is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society.
His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle Audrey Hepburn , who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill Jeremy Brett.
The loverliest motion picture of them all! Drama Family Musical Romance. Did you know Edit. 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.
Soundtracks Why Can't the English? User reviews Review. Top review. The character of Henry Higgins is greatly misunderstood by many and so is the film.
It has also been said that the film is a misogynist's fairy tale. Anyone saying this has clearly not watched this film too closely. First, Higgins is not a misogynist. A misogynist hates women. Try to set Sleep! Still 14 I could have danced Fl. Wings I could have danced etc. Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, editors and annotators Dominic McHugh and Amy Asch bring all of Lerner's lyrics together for the first time, including numerous draft or alternate versions and songs cut from the shows.
Compiled from dozens of archival collections, this invaluable resource and authoritative reference includes both Lerner's classic works and numerous discoveries, including his unproduced MGM movie Huckleberry Finn, selections from his college musicals, and lyrics from three different versions of Paint Your Wagon.
This collection also includes extensive material from Lerner's two most ambitious musicals: Love Life, to music by Kurt Weill, and Pennsylvania Avenue, which Lerner wrote with Leonard Bernstein.
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