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Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears , in what was his breakthrough role.
Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British [a] actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List.
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 ...
Audrey Hepburn not only starred in countless romance movies, but she also had several high-profile relationships. Before her breakout role in 1953’s Roman Holiday, Hepburn was engaged to ...
But while Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway were retained from the Broadway cast, producer Jack L. Warner felt that Julie Andrews wasn't a big enough star. He replaced her with Audrey Hepburn.
Rachel Roberts was devastated by her divorce from Rex Harrison, and her alcoholism and depression worsened. [7] She moved to Hollywood in 1975 and tried to forget the relationship. In 1980, Roberts attempted to reconcile with Harrison, but he was married to his sixth and final wife, Mercia Tinker.
1965: Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady Rex Harrison's performance as Professor Henry Higgins alongside Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady won the award in 1965. 1964: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field
She began a romantic relationship with actor Rex Harrison after they appeared together in the comedy film The Constant Husband (1955) and they were married in 1957. Harrison learned from Kendall's doctor that she had been diagnosed with myeloid leukaemia, a fact that was kept from Kendall, who believed she was suffering from an iron deficiency ...