Well made musical, with more personal Cukor style and themes than is sometimes realized.
My Fair Lady (1964)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:34
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Fans of the play may miss Julie Andrews in the starring role -- particularly when Marni Nixon's singing comes out of Audrey Hepburn's mouth -- but the film's charm is undeniable.
Runtime: 2 hrs 53 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Gladys Cooper, Henry Daniell, Isobel Elsom, Mona Washbourne, John McLiam, Walter Burke, Laurie Main, Maurice Dallimore, Marjorie Bennett, Dinah Anne Rogers, William Taylor, James Wood, John Holland, Barbara Pepper, Ben Wright, Grady Sutton, Colin Campbell, Betty Blythe, Alan Napier, Patrick O'Moore, Monika Henreid, John Mitchum
Director: George Cukor
Director: George Cukor
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Story: George Bernard Shaw
Composer: Frederick Loewe
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Reviews for My Fair Lady
An elegant musical with some top class tunes -- the last of a dying breed of big-buck productions.
Lerner and Loewe's musical masterwork, reimagined for film by director George Cukor.
Audrey Hepburn's dramatic transformation makes My Fair Lady an entertaining musical experience.
Cukor's screen version is classy in the positive and negative sense of this term: Stylish and elegant but also bloated, overlong, and theatrical. Harrison is good but it doesn't help that Audrey Hepburn's singing is incongruously dubbed by Marni Nixon.
Hepburn is clearly awkward as the Cockney Eliza in the first half, and in general the adaptation is a little too reverential to really come alive.
The charisma of the leads, the gratifying (if poorly paced) story arc and the hummable tunes allow us to get past some of the film’s cinematic weaknesses.
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