My Fair Lady
starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
directed by: George Cukor
directed by: George Cukor
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A widescreen edition of the perennial family favorite as dr. Henry higgins meets his match in a flower girl who blooms into the belle of high society.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 08/01/2006Starring: Rex Harrison Audrey HepburnRun time: 173 minutesRating: G
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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
A widescreen edition of the perennial family favorite as dr. Henry higgins meets his match in a flower girl who blooms into the belle of high society.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 08/01/2006Starring: Rex Harrison Audrey HepburnRun time: 173 minutesRating: G
Amazon.com essential video:
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
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- almost perfect
I have two quibbles with the version I got:
1) the songs ofAudrey Hepburn are dubbed.
2) the version I got was shorted to take out the girl learning to dance
for the ball.
A big George Bernard Shaw fan, I actually saw this when it came out
in 1965 ( I think) while in college.
I loved seeing it again.
Rating: 
- My Fair Lady
A colorful wonderful story with great music.I am giving it to my 12 year old granddaughter for her birthday.
Rating: - Heart warming, entertaining and inspiring!
I was surprised by how much of the song lyrics I had remembered from watching this movie MANY years ago as a kid. Now I have "Wouldn't it be Loverly" running through my head, and I don't mind one bit. This is one of those movies you can watch again and again, and enjoy it every time. Good stuff!
Rating: - See It Before the Blossom in Your Cheeks Turns to Chalk!
In honor of what would have been Audrey Hepburn's 80th birthday, I take the opportunity to review what is perhaps her best-known role, and if not her best-known, definitely one of her most exquisite.
Replacing Broadway's Julie Andrews in the role of Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, Hepburn brings her own essence to the part, with her shrill bellowing when a wealthy concert patron accidentally knocks her flowers into the mud outside Covent Garden, and when she first encounters the two ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent DVD
This My Fair Lady Special Edition DVD arrived in a very timely manner. Moreover, Amazon has the best price for this DVD out there. Highly recommended.
- almost perfectI have two quibbles with the version I got:
1) the songs ofAudrey Hepburn are dubbed.
2) the version I got was shorted to take out the girl learning to dance
for the ball.
A big George Bernard Shaw fan, I actually saw this when it came out
in 1965 ( I think) while in college.
I loved seeing it again.
- My Fair LadyA colorful wonderful story with great music.I am giving it to my 12 year old granddaughter for her birthday.
- Heart warming, entertaining and inspiring!I was surprised by how much of the song lyrics I had remembered from watching this movie MANY years ago as a kid. Now I have "Wouldn't it be Loverly" running through my head, and I don't mind one bit. This is one of those movies you can watch again and again, and enjoy it every time. Good stuff!
- See It Before the Blossom in Your Cheeks Turns to Chalk!In honor of what would have been Audrey Hepburn's 80th birthday, I take the opportunity to review what is perhaps her best-known role, and if not her best-known, definitely one of her most exquisite.
Replacing Broadway's Julie Andrews in the role of Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, Hepburn brings her own essence to the part, with her shrill bellowing when a wealthy concert patron accidentally knocks her flowers into the mud outside Covent Garden, and when she first encounters the two ... Read More
- Excellent DVDThis My Fair Lady Special Edition DVD arrived in a very timely manner. Moreover, Amazon has the best price for this DVD out there. Highly recommended.
