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• Music
• Musical

• 1964
• George Cukor
• 166 mins
• U

Summary

Classic musical based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering, that he can coach a cockney flower girl to pass as a lady at any social gathering. The girl, Eliza Doolittle, initially refutes the idea, but then later turns up at Higgins's house demanding to be taught.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Tony Sloman

This sumptuous adaptation of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's smash Broadway version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion won eight well-deserved Oscars. It boasts superb performances from Rex Harrison - repeating his stage success as Henry Higgins - and Stanley Holloway as Alfred P Doolittle (Warner Bros wanted James Cagney). At the time, there was criticism that Julie Andrews didn't re-create her original Broadway role, but Audrey Hepburn is still quite wonderful as Eliza. If not coarse enough for the Covent Garden flower girl, nobody, but nobody, could ever blossom as beautifully as Hepburn does in the Cecil Beaton costumes later on, and, despite being dubbed in the singing duties by Marni Nixon, her portrayal is funny and heart-warming in equal doses. A more visually inspired director - Vincente Minnelli or William Wyler - might have brought a little more élan to the work, but, with elegance and taste, George Cukor rightly preserves the theatricality of the enterprise and provides a joyful experience to savour again and again.

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7.7/10

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Cast

rolenameEliza DoolittleAudrey HepburnProfessor Henry HigginsRex HarrisonAlfred P DoolittleStanley HollowayColonel Hugh PickeringWilfrid Hyde WhiteMrs HigginsGladys CooperFreddy Eynsford-HillJeremy BrettZoltan KarpathyTheodore BikelMrs Eynsford-HillIsobel ElsomMrs PearceMona WashbourneJamieJohn AldersonHarryJohn McLiamEliza Marni NixonFreddyBill Shirley

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rolenameDirectorGeorge Cukor

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Theatrical distributor

Warner Pathe Ltd

Languages

English

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video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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