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Features: DVD, Special Edition, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
My Fair Lady has been lovingly restored so that you will see and hear it as it was meant to be experienced. Winning the Best Picture Oscar for 1964, this enchanting musical tale stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, the scruffy flower girl who dreams "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and becomes the Belle of British Society. Rex Harrison won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal as Professor Henry Higgins. Betting he can pass her off as a Duchess, he tutors, torments and finally becomes totally beguiled by the transformed and triumphant Eliza. The lush, colorful photography, glorious sets, wonderful costumes and engaging musical score all captured Oscars, giving My Fair Lady a unique place in film history. Along with other show-stopping tunes, My Fair Lady becomes more than a movie...it's a feast for the eyes and ears that delivers a breathtaking entertainment experience for the whole family.
"Sumptuously filmed..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton's lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe's winning score became the background for George Cukor's striking mix of styles that ranged from the fantastic to the abstract in his telling of the tale of a waif who's educated into being a lady. Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins (Oscar-winning Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in time for an important society ball. His gamble could pay off--but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can't live without her. The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director.
Plot Summary
An insufferably arrogant linguist, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), bets a colleague that he can transform a flower-selling Cockney guttersnipe into a regal lady. His quarry, the irrepressible Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), accepts his offer for diction lessons in good faith, hoping to improve her station with a career as a shopgirl. This quintessential musical, scored by Lerner and Loewe, was based on the 1913 play PYGMALION by George Bernard Shaw, and virtually swept the Academy Awards, winning, among others, Best Picture, Director, and Actor (Harrison).
| Features | Interactive Menus | | 2-Disc Set | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; French Mono | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/11/2008 |
| Running Time: 172 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1964 | | Catalog ID: 28885 | | UPC: 00085392888528 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1965) |  | Rex Harrison, Winner, Best Actor | | George Cukor, Winner, Best Director | | Jack L. Warner, Winner, Best Picture | | | Stanley Holloway, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor | | | Gladys Cooper, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress | | | Alan Jay Lerner, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Glorious....Features [Beaton's] astounding costumes, [Cukor's] stately direction, the best-loved, most hummable of all Broadway scores and a sublime cast headed by [Harrison and Hepburn]..."| 09/21/1994 p.C13Chicago Sun-Times
"...One of the most joyous musicals ever written....Cukor's film is a pleasure to behold..." 09/23/1994 p.40 Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
...one of the most joyous musicals ever written. Most of the songs are simply about being happy. Wha - Roger Ebert
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