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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 ...
In addition to pronouncing "lovely" as "loverly", the song lyrics highlight other facets of the Cockney accent that Professor Henry Higgins wants to refine away as part of his social experiment. In the stage version it was sung by Julie Andrews. [1] In the 1964 film version, Marni Nixon dubbed the song for Audrey Hepburn. [2]
The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was first released April 2, 1956 by Columbia Records, [2] with songs by Lerner and Loewe, conducted by Franz Allers, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. Columbia president Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the cast recording. [2]
With their the magical ability to turn any moment into an emotional ballad or catchy dance number, musicals have a way of seeping into our living rooms and getting us to belt from the couch. From ...
The following is a list of musical films by year. A musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. 1920s
Cast Genre Note I'd Rather Be Rich: Jack Smight: Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams: Comedy: Universal: The Incredible Mr. Limpet: Arthur Lubin: Don Knotts, Jack Weston, Carole Cook: Comedy: Warner Bros. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies: Ray Dennis Steckler: Ray Dennis Steckler: Horror ...
My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast is an album by drummer Shelly Manne with Jack Sheldon and Irene Kral and musical direction by Johnny Williams, recorded in 1964 and released on the Capitol label. [1]
It includes 1964 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for musical films released in the year 1964 . It does not include unreleased films.