Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. After delivering a musical tirade against 'verbal class distinction,' Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. My Fair Lady is about a misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
July 6, 1905 in Denver, Colorado, USA
17 August 1896, Woolwich, London, England, UK
7 January 1903, Birmingham, England, UK
23 January 1932, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
31 May 1915, New York City, New York, USA
18 February 1905, London, England, UK
November 25, 1918 in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, USA
24 January 1918, Alberta, Canada
2 May 1924, Vienna, Austria
1 October 1907, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
11 September 1927, Dublin, Ireland
August 19, 1894 in Yankton, South Dakota, USA
25 November 1937, Redwood City, California, USA
August 2, 1925 in Kent, England, UK
1 October 1890, Manor Park, London, England, UK
12 May 1903, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, UK
March 10, 1928 in Milan, Italy
4 May 1884, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
November 29, 1890 in Swaffham, Norfolk, England, UK
11 October 1892, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
20 March 1883, Falkirk, Scotland, UK
September 1, 1893 in Los Angeles, California, USA
21 February 1919, Ford City, Pennsylvania, USA
23 November 1905, Summerville, Texas, USA
5 September 1918, Columbus, Mississippi, USA
October 27, 2015
The well-nigh-irresistible...My Fair Lady...comedically softens Shaw's ending but nevertheless nearly single-handedly transcends the material's sexist leaning through the sheer humanism of Hepburn's deeply felt performance. [Blu-ray]
February 06, 2013
Despite all reservations expressed, I must make clear that his fantastically successful show has been converted into a generally entertaining film.
January 16, 2013
A marvelous restoration of the 30-year-old musical, precisely the kind of high-class popular entertainment that Hollywood can't seem to make these days.
February 24, 2015
For those who've seen the stage show, My Fair Lady give complete satisfaction and those who will see and hear the musical for the first time will be enchanted by it.
February 20, 2008
A stunningly effective screen entertainment.
February 21, 2014
With elegance and taste, George Cukor rightly preserves the theatricality of the enterprise and provides a joyful experience to savour again and again.
February 11, 2013
Even if the story is quite simple, the film, as directed by the legendary George Cukor, achieves various levels of depth, particularly because of the way in which he turns it into a keen gender study.
March 24, 2014
Great story, great music, awful ending.
October 26, 2015
Despite a somewhat flawed and erratic third act, My Fair Lady rises on the strength of its lush costumes and settings, as well as several great and memorable songs, turning this into a musical that one can't help but enjoy in all of its grandeur.
February 11, 2013
Stylised and stylish, there's something gloriously timeless about My Fair Lady.
February 24, 2015
In this literal, beautiful, bountiful version of the most gilt-edged attraction in theater history, Jack Warner has miraculously managed to turn gold into gold.
December 13, 2006
Lerner and Loewe's musical masterwork, reimagined for film by director George Cukor.
