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1965 My Fair Lady George Dewey Cukor ( / ˈ k juː k ɔːr / KEW -kor ; [ 1 ] July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer . [ 2 ] He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations.
Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen.It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.
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 ...
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, 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.
However, he became best known during this period as a director. Among the Broadway hits he staged were Junior Miss (1941), Dear Ruth (1944) and Anniversary Waltz (1954). By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady (1956), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe ...
Lerner and Loewe, c. 1962 Lerner and Loewe is the partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. [1] Spanning three decades and nine musicals from 1942 to 1960 and again from 1970 to 1972, the pair are known for being behind the creation of critical on stage successes such as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot along with the musical film Gigi.
Holloway in 1974. Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English actor, comedian, singer and monologist.He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
In September 1997, he became the Royal National Theatre's artistic director, [4] a position he retained until 2003. Later London credits include My Fair Lady, [16] South Pacific (at the Royal National Theatre), [17] The Woman in White, [18] Othello and Acorn Antiques: The Musical!