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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. Higgins goes along ...
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw 's 1913 play Pygmalion, 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.
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 her to speak English so well she could pass for a duchess in Edwardian London or better yet, from Eliza's viewpoint ...
Eliza Doolittle : The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated.
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is an impoverished woman, with a thick Cockney accent, who sells flowers to scrape together a meager living. Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is an affluent...
My Fair Lady: Directed by George Cukor. With Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White. In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
Overview… a humble Cockney girl from the streets who just wants to sell her flowers. When she runs into the phoneticist Henry Higgins and the linguist Colonel Pickering, she becomes the subject of their bet.
Character description, analysis and casting breakdown for Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady.
Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in the witty musical "My Fair Lady". The story unfolds as Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) makes a bet that he can transform flower girl Eliza Dolittle...
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.