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My Fair Lady (1964)
Released By: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment   Rating: Not Rated   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: George Cukor
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
Published ID: 4261
UPC: 085391666820, 085392888528, 097368719644,
Plot: At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy {~Pygmalion}. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). After delivering a musical tirade against verbal class distinction, Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering (Wilfred Hyde-White) that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, offering to pay him to teach her to be a lady. It's almost irresistable, clucks Higgins. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty. He turns his mission into a sporting proposition, making a bet with Pickering that he can accomplish his six-month miracle to turn Eliza into a lady. This is one of the all-time great movie musicals, featuring classic songs and the legendary performances of Harrison, repeating his stage role after Cary Grant wisely turned down the movie job, and Stanley Holloway as Eliza's dustman father. Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza on Broadway but producer Jack Warner felt that Andrews, at the time unknown beyond Broadway, wasn't bankable; Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). Andrews instead made Mary Poppins, for which she was given the Best Actress Oscar, beating out Hepburn. The movie, however, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Harrison, and five other Oscars, and it remains one of the all-time best movie musicals. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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DVD do not work
Added 10/9/2009
1 of the dvd do not play at all,i tried it in several dvd player and no success.
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A great Classic
Added 10/5/2009
Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn are fabulous in this movie. One of my absolute favorites.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
My Pgymalion Unit
Added 9/15/2009
I can never resist using "My Fair Lady" to teach G.B. Shaw's Pygmalion. The contrast between the biting satire in the original version and the lavish Hollywood production provides a plethora of opportunities for discussion. Naturally, however, when one shows a dated Hollywood musical to a class of today's high school students, one runs the risk of yawns, boredom, and little naps during the movie. But the songs and sets and silly jokes seem to worm their way into students' brains despite their efforts to be blase, and it always turns out for the best. It's worth the (long) time spent.My Fair Lady
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
My Fair Lady
Added 8/28/2009
DVD was defective and would not play. Could not get e-mail response from independent supplier.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
damaged
Added 8/14/2009
I ordered the movie and got it a week later and it would not play it had several scratches on the back of the dvd so I had them send me another copy, which they did. the new copy was also scrathed on the back but only skipped a little in the begining. these dvds where supposed to be new.
1 out of 2 people found this helpful.
DVD do not work
Added 10/9/2009
1 of the dvd do not play at all,i tried it in several dvd player and no success.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
A great Classic
Added 10/5/2009
Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn are fabulous in this movie. One of my absolute favorites.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
My Pgymalion Unit
Added 9/15/2009
I can never resist using "My Fair Lady" to teach G.B. Shaw's Pygmalion. The contrast between the biting satire in the original version and the lavish Hollywood production provides a plethora of opportunities for discussion. Naturally, however, when one shows a dated Hollywood musical to a class of today's high school students, one runs the risk of yawns, boredom, and little naps during the movie. But the songs and sets and silly jokes seem to worm their way into students' brains despite their efforts to be blase, and it always turns out for the best. It's worth the (long) time spent.My Fair Lady
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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