A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards.... more
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Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard S...
Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard S...
My Fair Lady [1965]
Hollywood's legendary "woman's director", George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia
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Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps My Fair Lady exciting--that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night". Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh
isnt it loverly Review ofMy Fair Lady (Special Edition)by
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Advantages: great story and characters Disadvantages: musical maybe not for everyone
my fair lady is one of the worlds most loved musical and tells the story of a commen flower girl who dreams of a better life. she dreams of being well spoken and working in a florist shop instead of being on the streets.well as it happens a proffessor of speech takes her in as a bet and teaches her to speak and act properly. does this mean she will get her dream?
this comic tale is a story of love and freindship between the classes.
i like this ...
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Actor(s): Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde White, Gladys Cooper, Stanley Holloway, Theodore Bikel, Jeremy Brett, Henry Daniell, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom
Director(s): George Cukor
Genre: Musicals & Music Films - Musicals & Other Music Films
Classification: Universal
Production Year: 1964
Running Time: 2 hours 43 minutes
Plot: The story of a flower girl who becomes part of an experiment performed by Professor Henry Higgins as he sets out to prove that with elocution any woman may become a lady.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 05/04/2004
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: D 028885
Editor: William Ziegler
Set Designer: George James Hopkins
Barcode: 7321900288859
Music Director: Andre Previn
Screenwriter: Alan Jay Lerner, George Bernard Shaw, James Wood
Choreographer: Hermes Pan
Composer: Andre Previn, Frederick Loewe
Featured: Colin Campbell, Grady Sutton, Ben Wright, Dinah Anne Rogers, John McLiam, Betty Blythe, Barbara Pepper, John Holland, James Wood, William Taylor, Laurie Main, Patrick O'Moore, Marjorie Bennett, Monika Henreid, John Mitchum, Alan Napier, Walter Burke, Maurice Dallimore
Director of Photography: Harry Stradling
Producer: Jack Warner, James Wood
Author: Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Alan Jay Lerner
Voice: Ben Wright
Art Director: Gene Allen
Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner
Costume Designer: Cecil Beaton
Languages
Main Language: English
DVD Description
A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton's lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe's winning score became the background for George Cukor's striking mix of styles that ranged from the fantastic to the abstract in his telling of the tale of a waif who's educated into being a lady. Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins (Oscar-winning Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in time for an important society ball. His gamble could pay off--but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can't live without her. The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director.
Technical information
Special Features: Documentary - 1. MORE LOVERLY THAN EVER: THE MAKING OF MY FAIR LADY, Commentary - 1. Gene Allen - Art Director, Featurette - 1. THE FAIREST FAIR LADY, Alternative vocals for WOULDN'T IT BE LOVERLY and SHOW ME by Audrey Hepburn, KICKOFF DINNER footage from 1963, Los Angeles premiere footage, Footage from the 37th Academy Awards, Rex Harrison's acceptance speech from the Golden Globes awards, Comments from Martin Scorsese and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Production Stills Gallery, Production Documents Gallery, Architectural Drawings Gallery, Cecil Beaton's Costume Sketches Gallery
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Professional reviews
Review: "...Glorious....Features [Beaton's] astounding costumes, [Cukor's] stately direction, the best-loved, most hummable of all Broadway scores and a sublime cast headed by [Harrison and Hepburn]..." (New York Times, p.C13, 21/09/1994)
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