G | 2h 50 min | Musical, Comedy | 1964
For a musical, 1964’s “My Fair Lady” isn’t about music at all. It’s about speech. It isn’t about singing. It’s about speaking. Yet, magically, director George Cukor and producer Jack L Warner, make this magnificent British-American film about all these things, bringing to film the musical that first landed on Broadway in 1956.
Set in the early 20th century, the story revolves around a seemingly trivial bet, based on a fundamental belief.
Rex Harrison as Professor Higgins comes across Eliza Doolittle selling flowers and bets he can change her into a lady in “My Fair Lady.” (MovieStillsDB)
London’s famed phonetics professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) believes that the art of speaking well defines success, and that anyone, regardless of upbringing, can be made to master that art….