Running time170 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$17 millionBox office$72.7 millionMy Fair Lady is a 1964 American film adapted from the based on the 1913 stage play. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by, the film depicts a poor flower seller named who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak 'proper' English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of.The film stars as Eliza Doolittle and as Henry Higgins, with, and in supporting roles. A critical and commercial success, it won eight, including,. In 1998, the named it the.
In 2006 it was ranked eighth in the list.In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States by the as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.' Contents.Plot In, Professor Henry Higgins, a scholar of, believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society ('Why Can't the English?' At one evening, he meets Colonel Hugh Pickering, himself a phonetics expert who had come all the way from India to see him.
Academy Award For Best Actor
Higgins boasts he could teach anyone to speak so well he could pass them off as a duke or at an embassy, even the young woman with a strong accent named Eliza Doolittle who tries to. Eliza's ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her accent makes that impossible ('Wouldn't It Be Loverly'). The following morning, Eliza shows up at Higgins' home, seeking lessons.
Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all the attendant expenses if Higgins succeeds. Higgins agrees, and describes how women ruin lives ('I'm an Ordinary Man').Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle, a, learns of his daughter's new residence ('With a Little Bit of Luck'). He shows up at Higgins' house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack of morals. Higgins recommends Alfred to a wealthy American who is interested in morality.Eliza endures Higgins' demanding teaching methods and treatment of her personally ('Just You Wait').
She makes little progress, but just as she, Higgins, and Pickering are about to give up, Eliza finally 'gets it' ('The Rain in Spain'); she instantly begins to speak with an impeccable, and is overjoyed at her breakthrough ('I Could Have Danced All Night').As a trial run, Higgins takes her to ('Ascot Gavotte'), where she makes a good impression initially, only to shock everyone by a sudden lapse into vulgar Cockney while cheering on a horse. Higgins partly conceals a grin behind his hand. At Ascot, she meets Freddy Eynsford-Hill, a young, upper-class man who becomes infatuated with her ('On the Street Where You Live').Higgins then takes Eliza to an embassy ball for the final test, where she dances with a foreign prince. Also present is Zoltan, a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. After he dances with Eliza, he declares that she is a Hungarian princess.Afterward, Eliza's hard work is barely acknowledged, with all the praise going to Higgins ('You Did It'). This and his callous treatment of her, especially his indifference to her future, causes her to walk out on him, leaving him mystified by her ingratitude ('Just You Wait (Reprise)').
Outside, Freddy is still waiting ('On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)'), and greets Eliza, who is irritated by him as all he does is talk ('Show Me'). Eliza tries to return to her old life, but finds that she no longer fits in. She meets her father, who has been left a large fortune by the wealthy American to whom Higgins had recommended him, and is resigned to marrying Eliza's stepmother. Alfred feels that Higgins has ruined him, lamenting that he is now bound by 'middle-class morality' ('Get Me to the Church On Time').
Eliza eventually ends up visiting Higgins' mother, who is outraged at her son's callous behaviour.The next day, Higgins finds Eliza gone and searches for her ('A Hymn to Him'), eventually finding her at his mother's house. Higgins attempts to talk Eliza into coming back to him.
He becomes angered when she announces that she is going to marry Freddy and become Karpathy's assistant ('Without You'). He makes his way home, stubbornly predicting that she will come crawling back. However, he comes to the unsettling realization that she has become an important part of his life ('I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face').
As he listens to a recording of Eliza's voice, she reappears in the doorway behind him, turning off the recording and saying in her old Cockney accent, 'I washed my hands and face before I come, I did.' Higgins looks surprised, then pleased, and says “Eliza. Where the devil are my slippers?”Cast. as. as Professor Henry Higgins.
as Alfred P. Doolittle. as Colonel Hugh Pickering. as Mrs. Higgins. as Freddy Eynsford-Hill. as Zoltan Karpathy.
George Cukor
as Mrs. Pearce, Higgins' housekeeper. as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill. as the ButlerUncredited:. as the British Ambassador (in his last film role).
as in Eliza's fantasy. as Female Ambassador (in yellow dress) at the ball. as Cockney bystander. as Lady Boxington. as Gentleman escorting Eliza to the Queen. as Lady at the ball. as Cockney with pipe.
as Ball Guest. as Waiter from the bar ('). as Doolittle's dancing partner. as the Queen of Transylvania. as Cockney bystander telling Eliza about Higgins taking notes about herMusical numbers.
'Overture' – played by orchestra. 'Why Can't the English Learn to Speak?' Cinematographer Harry Stradling poses with as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the filmThe head of, put up the money for the original Broadway production in exchange for the rights to the cast album (through ). When Warner bought the film rights in February 1962 for the then-unprecedented sum of $5 million, it was agreed that the rights to the film would revert to CBS seven years following release. Order of musical numbers The order of the songs in the show was followed faithfully, except for 'With a Little Bit of Luck'.
The song is listed as being the third musical number in the play; in the film it is the fourth. Onstage, the song is split into two parts sung in two different scenes. Part of the song is sung by Doolittle and his cronies just after Eliza gives him part of her earnings, immediately before she makes the decision to go to Higgins's house to ask for speech lessons.
The second half of the song is sung by Doolittle just after he discovers that Eliza is now living with Higgins. In the film, the entire song is sung in one scene that takes place just after Higgins has sung 'I'm an Ordinary Man'. However, the song does have a dialogue scene (Doolittle's conversation with Eliza's landlady) between verses.The instrumental 'Busker Sequence', which opens the play immediately after the Overture, is the only musical number from the play omitted in the film version.
However, there are several measures from this piece that can be heard as we see Eliza in the rain, making her way through the cars and carriages in Covent Garden.All of the songs in the film were performed near complete; however, there were some verse omissions, as there sometimes are in film versions of Broadway musicals. For example, in the song 'With a Little Bit of Luck', the verse 'He does not have a Tuppence in his pocket', which was sung with a chorus, was omitted, due to space and its length. The original verse in 'Show Me' was used instead.The stanzas of 'You Did It' that came after Higgins says 'she is a Princess' were originally written for the Broadway version, but Harrison hated the lyrics, and refused to perform the song unless and until those lyrics were omitted, which they were in most Broadway versions. However, Cukor insisted that the omitted lyrics be restored for the film version or he would not direct at all, causing Harrison to oblige. The omitted lyrics end with the words 'Hungarian Rhapsody' followed by the servants shouting 'Bravo' three times, to the strains of 's 'Hungarian Rhapsody' before the servants sing 'Congratulations, Professor Higgins'. Dubbing Hepburn's singing was judged inadequate, and she was dubbed by, who sang all songs except 'Just You Wait', where Hepburn's voice was left undubbed during the harsh-toned chorus of the song and Nixon sang the melodic bridge section. Hepburn did sing the brief reprise of the song in tears.
Some of Hepburn's original vocal performances for the film were released in the 1990s, affording audiences an opportunity to judge whether the dubbing was necessary. Less well known is the dubbing of 's songs (as Freddy) by.Harrison declined to pre-record his musical numbers for the film, explaining that he had never talked his way through the songs the same way twice and thus could not convincingly lip-sync to a playback during filming (as musical stars had, according to, been doing for years. 'We even dubbed Rin-Tin-Tin' ). Decided to use a, the first such use during filming of a motion picture. The sound department earned an Academy Award for its efforts.Intermission One of the few differences in structure between the stage version and the film is the placement of the intermission.
In the stage play, the intermission comes after the embassy ball where Eliza dances with Karpathy. In the film, the intermission comes before the ball, as Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering are seen departing for the embassy.Art direction , and won an for art direction of the film. Beaton's inspiration for the library in Higgins' home, where much of the action takes place, was a room at the, in France, which had been decorated opulently by its owner. Hats were created by Parisian milliner at Beaton's request.Soundtrack.
Original LPAll tracks played by the Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra conducted. Between brackets the singers. 'Overture'. 'Why Can't the English Learn to Speak?' (, ). 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly?'
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