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My Fair Lady

Release date 21st October 1964
Country : USA
Running time : 170 mins
Genre : Musical
Starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner from Pygmalion by G.B.Shaw
Directed by George Cukor

 

Professor Henry Higgins, a rather snobbish and arrogant teacher of languages is challenged by Colonel Pickering to take a common flower girl and turn her into someone who would not be completely out of place in the social circles of upper-class English society.

This isn't the most innovative or cinematic of Broadway transfers and Audrey Hepburn's cockney flower girl isn't her finest hour. Despite these flaws though Hepburn was never more beautiful or enchanting as the more refined Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison is perfection as Professor Higgins and what a score !

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Songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe include  Wouldn't It Be Loverly ?, The Rain In Spain, With A Little Bit of Luck, I Could Have Danced All Night, Get Me To The Church On Time, Show Me, On the Street Where You Live, I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face  

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