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Family. Alfred P. Doolittle (father) Spouse. Freddy Eynsford-Hill. Nationality. English. Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle on the set of 1964 film adaptation. 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's dustman father, Alfred P. Doolittle, stops by the next morning searching for money for a drink ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). Soon after, Eliza comes to Higgins's house, seeking elocution lessons so that she can get a job as an assistant in a florist's shop.
Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle, a dustman, learns of his daughter's new residence ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). He shows up at Higgins's house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5.
Stanley Holloway, the actor who gained wide recognition for his portrayal of Eliza Doolittle's father in the original Broadway and London productions of ''My Fair Lady,'' died today in the...
Alfred Doolittle is Eliza Doolittle's absent father who only shows up in her life to beg for money. He's not unemployed, mind, he's a dustman (a British term for people who collect trash for...
Eliza arrives at Higgins' laboratory-living room for rather ironic reasons. She wants to adopt middle-class manners that both Higgins and her father despise. Eliza's ideal is to become a member of the respectable middle class, and in order to do so, she must learn proper pronunciation and manners.
Alfred Doolittle is Eliza's father, a dustman who has had at least six wives and who "seems equally free from fear and conscience." His unique brand of rhetoric, an unembarrassed, unhypocritical advocation of drink and pleasure (at other people's expense), amuses Higgins.
Eliza desires independence but finds herself under the control of men like Pickering, Higgins, and her father. At the end of the play, she stands up to Higgins and leaves him, but he is confident that she will come back to him.
Alfred Doolittle is a dustman and Eliza’s father. He is lazy and mendacious and has been a negligent and thoughtless father, though not a cruel one. Despite his humble origins and lack of...
Alfred Doolittle. Eliza's father, who appears at Higgins' house in Act Two, asking for money (but not too much money) in return for allowing Eliza to stay with him. Eliza doesn't trust her father, and he doesn't… read analysis of Alfred Doolittle.