My Fair Lady

Hollywood's legendary director George Cukor, 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, 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.

Actors:

Sam Harris » Jeremy Brett » Audrey Hepburn » Frank Baker » Colin Campbell » John Mitchum » Theodore Bikel » Isobel Elsom » John Alderson » Gladys Cooper » Colin Kenny » Marjorie Bennett » Rex Harrison » Henry Daniell » Wilfrid Hyde-White »

Running time: 166 Minutes

Production: USA 1964