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My Fair Lady
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. After delivering a musical tirade against 'verbal class distinction,' Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. My Fair Lady is about a misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
27 November 1903, Birmingham, England, UK
10 December 1895, Belfast, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK
September 18, 1900 in New York, USA
1930 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
31 May 1921, Arlington, Ohio, USA
17 August 1896, Woolwich, London, England, UK
16 May 1908, Fremont, Nebraska, USA
5 April 1906, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
May 23, 1928 in Yorkshire, England, UK
December 5, 1901 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
September 1, 1893 in Los Angeles, California, USA
18 December 1888, Lewisham, London, England, UK
23 June 1912, Essex, London, England, UK
July 27, 1915 in Colorado, USA
July 6, 1905 in Denver, Colorado, USA
November 29, 1890 in Swaffham, Norfolk, England, UK
12 May 1918, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
October 26, 2015
Despite a somewhat flawed and erratic third act, My Fair Lady rises on the strength of its lush costumes and settings, as well as several great and memorable songs, turning this into a musical that one can't help but enjoy in all of its grandeur.
February 21, 2014
With elegance and taste, George Cukor rightly preserves the theatricality of the enterprise and provides a joyful experience to savour again and again.
February 20, 2008
A stunningly effective screen entertainment.
February 11, 2013
Stylised and stylish, there's something gloriously timeless about My Fair Lady.
October 27, 2015
The well-nigh-irresistible...My Fair Lady...comedically softens Shaw's ending but nevertheless nearly single-handedly transcends the material's sexist leaning through the sheer humanism of Hepburn's deeply felt performance. [Blu-ray]
February 11, 2013
Even if the story is quite simple, the film, as directed by the legendary George Cukor, achieves various levels of depth, particularly because of the way in which he turns it into a keen gender study.
February 24, 2015
In this literal, beautiful, bountiful version of the most gilt-edged attraction in theater history, Jack Warner has miraculously managed to turn gold into gold.
March 24, 2014
Great story, great music, awful ending.
December 13, 2006
Lerner and Loewe's musical masterwork, reimagined for film by director George Cukor.
February 06, 2013
Despite all reservations expressed, I must make clear that his fantastically successful show has been converted into a generally entertaining film.
February 24, 2015
For those who've seen the stage show, My Fair Lady give complete satisfaction and those who will see and hear the musical for the first time will be enchanted by it.
January 16, 2013
A marvelous restoration of the 30-year-old musical, precisely the kind of high-class popular entertainment that Hollywood can't seem to make these days.