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My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach ...
Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Eliza (from Lisson Grove , London ) is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden .
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
Anette Barrios-Torres stars as Eliza Doolittle in, "My Fair Lady." 'I had the movie on repeat' "My Fair Lady" is based on a 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw 's 1913 play " Pygmalion ."
Audrey Hepburn plays the lovely Eliza Doolittle in this musical comedy-drama film that plays out like a modern-day Cinderella story, with Eliza transforming from a working-class flower girl (with ...
Wendy Hiller was chosen by Shaw to play Eliza Doolittle after she had appeared in stage productions of Pygmalion and Saint Joan – though the film's initial credits stated that this movie was introducing her, she had in fact already appeared on film in 1937's Lancashire Luck. Shaw's choice for Higgins had been Charles Laughton.
2 Cast. 3 References. 4 External ... Pygmalion is a 1983 American made-for-Showtime comedy film starring and produced by Margot Kidder as Eliza Doolittle and Peter ...
Molly Lynch is an Irish actress, singer and musician who is best known for playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Cathy Hiatt in The Last Five Years. Early life and education [ edit ]