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My Fair Lady (1964) (4K)

My Fair Lady (1964)

My Fair Lady (1964)

The loverliest motion picture of them all!

7.5/10 Great 1474 votes

Runtime
174 min
Original title
My Fair Lady
Language
en

What it is about

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Trailer

Cast

  • Audrey Hepburn Eliza Doolittle
  • Rex Harrison Professor Henry Higgins
  • Stanley Holloway Alfred P. Doolittle
  • Wilfrid Hyde-White Colonel Hugh Pickering
  • Gladys Cooper Mrs. Higgins
  • Jeremy Brett Freddy Eynsford-Hill
  • Theodore Bikel Zoltan Karpathy
  • Mona Washbourne Mrs. Pearce
  • Isobel Elsom Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
  • John Holland Butler
  • Marni Nixon Eliza Doolittle (singing voice) (uncredited)
  • Colin Kenny Ad Lib at Church (uncredited)
  • Bert Stevens Gentleman (uncredited)
  • Frank Baker Gentleman (uncredited)
  • Marjorie Bennett Cockney with Pipe (uncredited)

Crew

  • Director George Cukor
  • Screenplay Alan Jay Lerner
  • Original Music Composer Frederick Loewe
  • Director of Photography Harry Stradling Sr.
  • Editor William H. Ziegler
  • Producer James C. Katz
  • Producer Jack L. Warner

What viewers said

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. Upper crust phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can make brash London speaking flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society. Lerner and Loewe's Broadway version of George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" comes to the big screen and is an utter joy. […]

John Chard — 9/10 · read in full

**A film with a lot of quality, but also with some mistakes that are difficult to forgive.** This is one of those films that I heard a lot about before I actually decided to sit down and watch it. It is considered by many to be one of the greatest musicals of all time, and I can agree that it is really very good and deserves this award. […]

Filipe Manuel Neto — 8/10 · read in full

A recent survey asserted that the English had the sexiest accents in the world. Perhaps not exactly the sort of recognition "Prof. Henry Higgins" (Rex Harrison) was seeking when, exasperated by the standards of his native language being spoken around London, he plucks poor "Eliza" (Audrey Hepburn") from her flower-selling and promises his equally plummy friend "Col. Pickering" (Wilfred Hyde-White) that he can train her to pass in more refined society as a Duchess. […]

CinemaSerf — 7/10 · read in full

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