My Fair Lady--1964

[Kurovski]

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My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by George Cukor, the film depicts misogynistic and arrogant phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he wagers that he can take flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) and turn her Cockney accent into a proper English one, thereby making her presentable in high society.

The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_(film)

[LiberalEsto]

1. That was our school play when I was a high school senior

I was one of the prompters and as a result remember a good amount of it. That was 44 years ago.

[Kurovski]

2. isn't that funny? I had soundtrack, BITD, and i was speaking along with "Why Can't the English?"

Every word came out as written, and those are some tricky lyrics. The "funny" part is, I often forget that I'm doing laundry in the middle of doing it, or forget that I have put something in the toaster oven.

Short term memory, awful...fifty years ago...crystal clear.

I love Hepburn in this, but mourn a little that the incomparable Julie Andrews never brought her stage version of Eliza to the screen. If only we had digital video, we could have had so many great performancesfrom the stage to enjoy today.

I want a time machine!