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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

Comedy · Romance · Music · 1964

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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My Fair Lady

“The loverliest motion picture of them all!”

1964 Comedy · Romance · Music 2h 53m

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7.5 / 10

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A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

George Cukor

Written by

Alan Jay Lerner

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

Eliza Doolittle

Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison

Professor Henry Higgins

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

Alfred P. Doolittle

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Colonel Hugh Pickering

Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper

Mrs. Higgins

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

Zoltan Karpathy

Court is in session

Put My Fair Lady on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.