My Fair Lady

The 1964 Academy Award-winning film My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn is an adaptation of the 1956 hit Broadway production. Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, it tells the story of an upper class phonetics professor and his lower class cockney protege.

Plot Synopsis

The movie revolves around the wager of a phonetics professor named Higgins (played by Rex Harrison)) that he can refine the speech of a Cockney girl named Eliza Doolittle (played by Audrey Hepburn). Through hard work on her part and Higgins' coaching the task is accomplished. However, when she leaves Higgins for a young aristocrat, he discovers there was more involved than just speech lessons.

My Fair Lady Quotes

1. "The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated." - Hepburn as Eliza Dolittle
2. "I sold flowers; I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else." - Hepburn as Eliza Dolittle
3. "She's so deliciously low, so horribly dirty!" - Harrison as Professor Higgins
4. "Its about filling up the deepest cut that separates class from class and soul from soul." - Harrison as Professor Higgins

Fast Facts:

1. Longest running major theater production in history
2. Based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
3. Opened on Broadway in 1956
4. Film adaptation released in 1964
5. Eliza Doolittle was played by Julie Andrews in the original stage production
6. Audrey Hepburn played Doolittle in the film adaptation
7. Hepburn's singing voice was dubbed by Marni Nixon

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