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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 .
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 ...
Mary Martin was an early choice for the role of Eliza Doolittle, but declined the role. [10] Young actress Julie Andrews was "discovered" and cast as Eliza after the show's creative team went to see her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend. [11] Moss Hart agreed to direct after hearing only two songs.
Julie Andrews played Eliza and Rex Harrison was Henry Higgins. The movie adaptation came out 60 years ago in 1964 (there are screenings currently taking place to mark the anniversary) and won ...
Then from 1956 to 1959, Andrews played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady [2] which earned her a Tony Award nomination, the first of three that she received during her career. After this success, she played the title role in the 1957 television special Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella .
When "My Fair Lady"—Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic play "Pygmalion"—opened on Broadway, it made a young Julie Andrews the toast of ...
It was first performed by Julie Andrews in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady. [1] In the 1964 film adaptation of the musical, the song was sung by Marni Nixon, dubbing the singing voice of Audrey Hepburn, who played Eliza Doolittle. [2]
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