Julie had the right accent, the right look, the right voice, the right age--listen to the original cast recording and, again, you'll see what I mean. Harold Hill poses as a boys' band leader to con naive Iowa townsfolk. The costumes are so fresh they look as if they just came from the latest wardrobe fitting. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. View production, box office, & company info. With Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White. After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. (uncredited), Doolittle's Dance Partner Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. Written by Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett). My Fair Lady Hepburn tries hard but fails to convince--she always looks like an actress, a very good one, but still an actress playing a role. Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White and others are similarly impressive. Company Credits Looking for some great streaming picks? And Stanley Holloway gets to be slightly annoying after awhile. The sets look like sets that nobody ever lived in. But the pace is too slow--too many dull spots between musical highlights. (uncredited), King George V in Fantasy Sequence Another And thirdly, as much as I always liked Audrey Hepburn, she is not suited either temperamentally or vocally for the role and this is the big casting mistake Jack Warner made when he decided he couldn't risk millions on the unknown Julie Andrews. Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. | But for almost three hours the film goes on and on with a story that could have been told in half the time. 17 wins & 13 nominations. After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. (uncredited), Racegoer in 'Ascot Gavotte' Sequence | Drama. The supporting roles are brilliantly performed. Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, Jamie - Doolittle's crony And contrary to what others have said here about Marni Nixon, she did an outstanding job on the vocals and deserves no demerits for her work. Certificate: Passed (1964). Title: Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. (uncredited), Man at Coffee Stand Filming & Production Directed by George Cukor. The music is of course still a sheer delight with one of the finest scores ever written for a stage musical. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. (uncredited), Gentleman Escorting Eliza to the Queen Jwelch5742. And yet, he won the Oscar for Best Director--an award probably given for his many other achievements in filmmaking over a long career. From Coraline to ParaNorman check out some of our favorite family-friendly movie picks to watch this Halloween. Use the HTML below. A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. (uncredited), Bystander Who Warns Eliza Not only that--he looks visibly tired and bored with the role. Secondly, and more importantly, Rex Harrison was tired--VERY TIRED by the time he got to do the role on film that he created on Broadway. (uncredited), director of photography (as Harry Stradling), music conductor (as Andre Previn) / music supervisor (as Andre Previn), producer: 1994 film restoration (uncredited), studio publicity director (uncredited) / studio publicity executive (uncredited), assistant restorationist: 1994 film restoration (uncredited).

I particularly liked Theodore Bikel as the man who can't quite place Eliza's accent at the ball. She would have photographed beautifully in technicolor (or Warnercolor or whatever it was) and added her own distinctive charm to the role. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects. (uncredited), Voice of Linguistics Lesson Was this review helpful to you? (uncredited), Algernon / | Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well. A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society.
Cukor's penchant for preserving every last detail for the camera does not serve him well here, however rich that detail is. Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. (uncredited), Playback vocalist for Audrey Hepburn Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett). And on film the age difference between Eliza and Professor Higgins is too great--it's a distraction that wasn't as glaring on stage whenever an older actor played Higgins--but here it's too much. Compare the original cast recording of 'My Fair Lady' with his rendition of the numbers in the film and you'll see what I mean. Bartender No, not my favorite musical--too stagebound and artifical to seem genuine with a tired Rex and a miscast Audrey. Thank God Disney recognized her talents and she ended up winning an Oscar that year anyway for 'Mary Poppins'. Release Dates His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects. (uncredited), Daughter of Elegant Bystander My Fair Lady Cast List on Broadway.com, the most comprehensive source for Broadway Shows, Broadway Tickets and Broadway Information.

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