Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) 1964 / 2009

ABOUT THE MOVIE

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.



BACKGROUND INFORMATION


Movie: MY FAIR LADY

Country: USA

Year: 1964

Running time: 170 minutes

Directed by: George Cukor


Cinematography: Harry Stradling, Sr

Starring: Darsteller: Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolitle), Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins), Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolitle), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Colonel Hugh Pickering), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins), Jeremy Brett (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Theodore Bikel (Zoltan Karpathy), Mona Washbourne (Mrs. Pearce), Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill)



My Fair Lady won eight Oscars, Academy Award for Best Picture - Jack Warner, Academy Award for Directing - George Cukor, Academy Award for Best Actor - Rex Harrison, Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Harry Stradling, Academy Award for Sound - George R. Groves, Warner Brothers Studio, Academy Award for Original Music Score - Andre Previn, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton and George James Hopkins, Academy Award for Costume Design - Cecil Beaton