My Fair Lady - 341

Amazon.com Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh Product description A WIDESCREEN EDITION OF THE PERENNIAL FAMILY FAVORITE AS DR.HENRY HIGGINS MEETS HIS MATCH IN A FLOWER GIRL WHO BLOOMS INTOTHE BELLE OF HIGH SOCIETY.
ASIN: 630522577X
VSKU: LFV.630522577X.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:Audrey Hepburn|Rex Harrison|Cecil Beaton|George Cukor|Frank Flanagan|Stanley Holloway|Harry Stradling Sr.|Jack L. Warner|Wilfrid Hyde-White|Gladys Cooper|Jeremy Brett|Theodore Bikel|Alan Jay Lerner|George Bernard Shaw
Binding: Dvd