I had seen My Fair Lady as have most people and enjoyed it. We went to the recent stage play and I wanted to see again Audrey and Rex. It was great. I recommend it to all who love to be uplifted when they see a movie.

Sadly, I had never seen this movie before purchasing it here. And this comes from a girl who adores Audrey Hepburn! But the moment the score began I was hooked at this humerous, enchanting tale of an very unusual Cinderella and Fairy Godmother. The music is perfect, suited to every emotion felt by every character, making for a bright, fun, and touching musical experience. The setting is grand, even for the streets of London (though it is probably not a good thing to romanticize poverty) but in the guise of the theatre it works perfectly. The direction is different, slightly wild, and dare-I-say incredibly imaginative. The very motions of the actors are brilliantly thought-out. The acting is spot on, especially by the great Audrey who rids herself of charm to play the most obnoxious street urchin you will ever meet. Even as she rises through the process of becoming a proper lady she never quite loses that earthy charm. It's a touching story full of vivid, wild characters and plenty of heart. As for the second disk, the geek in me loved the features that added plenty of trivia to my first "My Fair Lady" experience.

"My Fair Lady" is one of the greatest musicals of all time. Lerner & Loewe's score never violated the wit, elegance, and sophistication of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion." The songs enhance the story; lifting it up into the heavens! The 1964 film version won eight Oscars; including "Best Picture." Cecil Beaton certainly deserved the Oscar for his sumptuous costume design. But "Fair Lady" is about more than clothes and glamour. It is a brillant satire of the British social class system. All the great scenes and songs are intact in the film version. Still, the viewer is likely to feel emotionally detached from the fascinating relationship between haughty Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) and Cockney Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn).
The film version loses its true sense of purpose in all the splendour of the visual design. There is very little impetus. "My Fair Lady" has been preserved here as a museum piece. I keep waiting for a spark of excitement and pace that seldom materializes. Everything is terribly static. The film is obviously shot entirely in a studio. I wish Warner Brothes had put out even more money so director George Cukor could have shot at least some of the film on location in London-- as Robert Wise did in New York City (partially) for "West Side Story" (1961) and Austria/Germany for "The Sound Of Music" (1965). Cukor won the "Best Director" Oscar for "Fair Lady," but this is far from his best work. That would be his masterpiece "A Star Is Born" with Judy Garland in 1954; or almost any of his films with Katharine Hepburn (see 1938's "Holiday" or 1949's "Adam's Rib"). So it is easy to see that Cukor had, indeed, earned his long-overdue Oscar by 1964.
Rex Harrison also earned an Oscar for recreating his Tony-Award Winning stage role. But he is merely "walking through" the role of Higgins here. Similarly, Stanley Holloway, recreating his stage role as Alfred P. Doolittle, looks tired. I'm comparing Harrison & Holloway with their own much more inspired performances on the "Fair Lady" Broadway and London Cast Albums.
Jack Warner did not invite Julie Andrews to re-create her Broadway and London stage triumph as Eliza Doolittle, leaving Audrey Hepburn to deal with the inevitable critical slings and arrows. Audrey was not allowed to sing the songs herself. Why somebody at Warner Brothes didn't transpose the songs into a different vocal range for Audrey is beyond me! A look at Audrey's own performances of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" and "Show Me" (on Disc 2) clearly demonstrates that she sang with more expression and deeper understanding of Eliza Doolittle in her own thin, whispery voice than Marni Nixon's soprano. Every time the voice switches from Audrey's own unforgettable voice into Marni Nixon's "California Cockney", I am disturbed, dismayed and lost! The documentary on Disc 2 features an interview with Marni Nixon, who comes off as EXTREMELY DEFENSIVE, desperately seeking to "Justify" herself in this instance, I am not finding any fault with Audrey or blaming her at all. Indeed, the film comes alive whenever Audrey is on screen. The great irony is that ("Just You Wait, Jack Warner, Just You Wait!!") Julie Andrews achieved great cinematic success, in short order, with "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound Of Music." And Audrey and Julie, both very "fair ladies," became good friends just a few years later.
Sad to admit, but I feel that, as cinema, the story is better served in the outstanding 1938 B&W film version of "Pygmalion," starring the superb Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard. If you want the glorious Lerner and Loewe songs, I highly recommend the 1959 London Cast Album in Stereo starring Harrison, Holloway, & Julie Andrews.

After reading all these reviews, there's nothing else left to say about the story or the acting. Definitely everyone on this planet adores 'My Fair Lady' - it's a classic! Now, about this DVD edition (the first one): The restoration job is great. The quality of picture and sound is excellent. If you care about the soundtrack, the US edition has the right pitch. Most European movie releases do not use the right pitch. Dialogs and music (or songs) are played at a higher speed so they don't sound natural and the European DVD edition of 'My Fair Lady' is no exception. However, the US DVD edition maintains the correct sound and the audio part is exactly like on the movie soundtrack CD.

I've noticed in reading the reviews already posted that most people want to debate the casting of the film, and that's fine. Others want to debate whether or not George Bernard Shaw would be angry at the ending (which he actually did pen for the 1930s version of Pygmalion.)
That's all fine.

But here is my honest opinion of the film, and it's romantic plotline. First of all, it's beautiful. The scenery, the costumes, and the music. But the ambiguity of the Higgins/Eliza "sort of romance" has always been one of my favorite things about this film. Why? Because the one thing good ol' George Bernard Shaw got right about this script (be it his original theatrical ending or the film ending) is that it shows us the different types of love between men and women. Not all love is eros and passionate. It is more subtle.

At the age of 10, I found this ending incredibly frustrating. Now as I approach my mid-twenties, I find it real and heartfelt. Perhaps, Higgins and Eliza remain platonic. Or, maybe Higgins and Eliza decide to marry? Maybe she does run off and marry Freddy. This sort of thing is best decided by the individual. But one thing is certain, they are most wonderfully in love, be it conventional or unconventional.

And that's just loverly.

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The first time I saw this movie I fell in love with it and Audrey Hepburn!
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a poor flower girl on the streets in London. Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is a phonetics teacher who bets he can speak her to teach like a duchess. I never liked him that much - I always thought he was mean to her. She goes through the grueling hours of voice lessons and ends up making her debut as a lady at the horse show before going to the ball. She looks so dazzling and stunning at the ball scene, but I love her dress when she sings "The Rain In Spain." (I have tried that marbles in the mouth quite a few times). I love the music "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "Show Me," "On the Street Where You Live" and "Without You." Although most of the songs were dubbed for Audrey, she did do some of the singing.
This is definitely a "loverly" classic!

This is my Dad's favorite movie. He sings along to every song. The perfomanes are Oscar winning great.

This is such a wonderful film - never fails to delight me whenever I watch it, especially Rex Harrison's abrasive, woman-hating professor. What a delicious character! Hepburn is yummy too. I got the 2-disc edition and have enjoyed it thoroughly.

I have to be honest in that I am not a huge fan of musicals. I watch them mostly to placate my wife. That said, my wife and I saw the London production company last Sunday afternoon do this one at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

Monday afternoon after we came home, we got out this version and watched it again. If you have the opportunity to see this musical, either in person staged by a quality production company or on this DVD, please do so. This is a wonderful story that gets richer in multiple tellings. My Fair Lady is like an old friend. Every time I see it I am happy with it.

This particular edition also gives insight into the production process that helps to connect with where the play came from.

A definite "must have!"

I saw this decades ago on the New York stage when it starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. The latter was replaced by Audrey Hepburn, a non-singer because the producers thought Andrews was not well-known enough to the general public. What nonsense. She was magnificent in the play and went on to become a great star without this cinematic vehicle.

Not to say that Hepburn is bad. She is truly beautiful. She could act, although her cockney feels rather forced. The dresses she wears are gorgeous, as good as I've ever seen in the movies. Unfortunately, she doesn't sing well enough to be permitted to sing--in a role that requires a singer. So Hollywood dubbed in another singer and did it rather poorly, which is a surprise. Frequently Hepburn's mouthing of the lyrics are not quite in sync with the dubber. It's hard to imagine why the producers went to such lenghths on wardrobe and set, and then did such a poor job on the dubbing.

Other that that one flaw, this is a beautiful piece of work. In a movie it is possible to go far beyond the narrows of a small theater stage, to a racetrack, to a very grand ballroom, etc. Henry Higgins dwelling is almost a character in itself. And Harrison is perfect in the role, as he was on stage, right down to his demand for his slippers in the final line. In fact, all the characters are fine.

This is certainly one of the better musicals ever filmed in Hollywood, up there with Chicago, South Pacific, Gigi... But I can't help but wonder what it would have been with Julie Andrews--or with Hepburn if she had been a singer.

I highly recommend this movie. Whether you love musicals or the classics, this is an oldie but goodie!. I laughed out loud, I enjoyed the song and dance numbers. Good for kids and adults. It definitely deserves its rank in the AFI top ten of all time.

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I've had this saved on my dvr for some time, and was looking forward to seeing this classic, well loved musical. Rex Harrison is terrific in his defining role as Professor Higgins, and Audrey Hepburn is beautiful as the socially challenged Eliza Doolittle.

Now to the script: Professor Higgins makes a bet with a friend that he can transform the street beggar Eliza Doolittle into a socially graceful and desirable woman within six months. He takes her into his home and teaches her the proper way to speak the English language and to dress.

In the process, she (for some strange reason) falls in love with Professor Higgins, even though he is totally lacking in knowing how to treat women. He doesn't think he needs women and wonders why they can't be more like men (duh!!!!!).

Some of the songs are memorable and tremendous, with catchy choruses such as Wouldn't it Be Loverly, The Rain in Spain, Get Me to the Church on Time, and (my favorite) With a Little Bit of Luck. The ending is less than satisfying to say the least, but I suppose for that time, it was realistic. A good experience.

My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition)
This is truly a must-have edition of My Fair Lady for anyone who is interested in movie history. Not only is the movie itself one of the best of all times--beautiful music, witty dialogues, clever social critique, excellent actors--but the special features added to this two-disc special edition help us to gain new insight into the process of making the film and, later, recovering it so that future generations may be able to enjoy it too.

Saw this on Broadway...the DVD is wonderful as was the VCR...but I wish they had let Julie Andrews play her original role...Andrew Hepburn was lovely but Julie's voice was fantastic,

Audrey Hepburn is "THE FAIREST LADY" of all. She was a gem. My Fair Lady is a GEM on her crown of success in films. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the DIAMOND on the crown.

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Even though the film "My Fair Lady" may seem a bit slow for our modern times, to those who enjoy musicals it will be a very pleasant experience to watch Bernard Shaw's amusing characters from Pygmalion singing while presenting us a satirical point of view of the distinction of social classes in England. Pygmalion is a play about a phonetician called professor Higgins and a linguist of Indian dialects called Colonel Pickering who make a bet that in a couple of months they can make a flower girl with a cockney accent, learn to be well-mannered and to speak as a duchess. With Higgins's overconfident attitude and Colonel Pickering's patience, they manage to transform the poor flower girl, Eliza, into a sophisticated lady.
The film has a different arrangement of scenes and dialogue lines from the original play "Pygmalion", but it catches the viewers interest by having a musical full of elegant costumes, humoristic lines and most importantly memorable and catchy songs played by a wonderful cast. This cast included Audrey Hepburn, who didn't really look like a low class flower girl in the beginning but appeared spectacular after the transition into a duchess. Her fine acting made the character come to life, brought spark to the play and provoked laughter to the audience quite a number of times. No one could have interpreted the new Eliza as charming, stylish and beautifully as Hepburn. Rex Harrison also does a fine job at playing his arrogant character, Professor Higgins. Higgins always treated Eliza with a terrible attitude but as the movie develops, the viewer catches the spark of love that always existed between Eliza and Higgins. This relationship makes it a romantic musical and makes the film distinct from the original Pygmalion. In "Pygmalion", Eliza marries Freddy, but in "My Fair Lady" the producers decided that Eliza comes back to Higgins to live as a couple happily ever after. This was a typical move for the producers since most audiences prefer happy endings.
To sum up, "My Fair Lady", is a must-see classical for musical lovers. Songs like 'Wouldn't It Be Lovely?', 'Why Can't the English Learn to Speak' and "The Rain in Spain", make the film come to live, and allow the characters to express themselves and develop in a particular and creative way instead of just having plain, old dialogues. The actors were fantastic, and had a lot of chemistry with each other, especially Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. The film could appear somewhat slow and dull for some people since it is old, but if you appreciate musicals and humor this is the movie for you.

While Pygmalion, with Wendy Hiller, follows G.B. Shaw's play more concisely My Fair Lady deviates a bit from the play however it still captures more the audience. Though, a 1964 movie may seem a bit boring for 2007 it has that special essence that makes it a great classical. My Fair Lady is in the form of a musical, which may seem annoying to those who do not enjoy constant singing. In my opinion, the singing was a perfect element in the movie especially the chorus which sang according the Professor Higgins feelings. In the movie the workers gather around Professor Higgins and sing according to the current situation. For example, while training Eliza the chorus would repeat "Poor Professor Higgins...Poor Professor Higgins", I think this added a humorous element. Some of the songs are very catchy like "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains". I found these songs very entertaining while watching the movie.
Audrey Hepburn's portrayal of Eliza Doolittle may not seem like the "flower girl" that Shaw describes because she has that "spark" that makes her seem elegant even if she is in rags. When Hepburn is shown in the ambassador's ball, she illustrates a real sophisticated duchess. From the way her lips move (making sure she doesn't mess up her words) to the way she is dressed, Hepburn portrays the elegance in every lady. Unlike Hiller, in Pygmalion, Hepburn shines in the ballroom. One could say that Hepburn is the epitome of elegance and sophistication in this scene. There is also an alteration in this scene from Shaw's play. First the character of Neppomuck is changed into Zoltan Zarpathy and we are presented to the Prince of Transylvania who wishes to dance with Eliza. This never happens in Pygmalion; however this was added into the plot in order to make the story more interesting and intriguing.
The other characters also play an important role. In my opinion, Professor Higgins seemed less rude in My Fair Lady. This could have been due to the constant singing. At the end of the movie Eliza goes back to Higgins instead of marrying Freddy, this is a huge change in the real Pygmalion. The director chose this path in order to give My Fair Lady a happy ending, instead of following the real storyline and maybe disappointing the audience.
Overall, My Fair Lady is an entertaining musical which can take you back in time however the audience is able to feel the essence of a classical movie. Hepburn's character in the movie truly captivates the audience.

Such a delightful film! This is probably one of Audrey's best performance! It's just so disappointing that she wasn't even nominated for the Oscar! Huh! I feel bad for her!

Such a delightful film! This is probably one of Audrey's best performance! It's just so disappointing that she wasn't even nominated for the Oscar! Huh! I feel bad for her!

I have always loved musicals, growing up watching them all the time, but by far My Fair Lady was the best I have ever watched. I never tire of watching Audrey Hepburn transform from a common flower girl to a lady. Though I was dissappointed that Audrey's voice wasn't used in the songs, there are the original songs with Audrey's voice in the extra features. If you love musicals, this is a must-see!

This is my favorite movie ever. They did a good job with it two. The extra stuff stinks so buy it for the movie.

Excellent cast and wonderful music make this superb movie one of the best of all time. The Oh so true play based on the English social class distinction, as it used to be, and scenes and characters in Covent Garden just add richness to the whole story.

Featuring the characters from the Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market, of former times, together with the opera goers from the Covent Garden Opera House adds highlight to the cultural extreams that existed, "shoulder to shoulder" for so long.

The truly beautiful Audry Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper and company, give us the richness and romanticism of a bygone era.......just wonderful.

This movie is sure to be a favorite for anyone who loves Audrey Hepburn or who enjoys musicals. It is very entertaining!

Loved the lipstick; hated the pig.

"My Fair Lady" is an elaborate wedding cake; it offers all the rewards and punishments of that overblown confection. The opening credits alone stuff you till you can't move: under white titles, lush, buttercream peonies, daisies and carnations lounge as if they were odalisques in a harem. You just want to bury your face in their petals and drown in scent.

And then, after he's proved he can wow you with white alone, Academy Award winning director George Cukor pops your eyes: a magenta gown and exotic, feathered headdress bedeck a woman descending a stair. She and the vintage luxury car she enters, before driving out of the movie forever, are onscreen for mere seconds.

No top hat is without its luster; no cobblestone lane without the dawn- or dusk- echoing heelstrike of a lovelorn swain.

The elaborate gold wallpaper in Higgins' home writhes like some Edwardian opium eater's hallucination. This is juxtaposed with grey housekeeper Mrs. Pearce's (Mona Washbourne) bosomy officiousness. The Ascot scene juxtaposes hysterical lyrics -- "Pulses rushing! Faces flushing! Heartbeats speed up! I have never been so keyed up!" with the funniest parody of British stiff upper lips. And the Transylvanian Queen is played by a real Baroness, Bina Rothschild.

The songs exemplify the best of Broadway: "Wouldn't it be Loverly?" "The Street Where You Live," "I Could have Danced All Night," "The Rain in Spain," "I've grown Accustomed to Her Face."

Audrey Hepburn is as close to a fairy princess as any star who's graced us. She is beautiful and she's got soul and intelligence to burn. The attention she brings to one small scene -- she asks Freddy's mother to compensate her for Freddy's having trod on her violets -- her body performs a little ballet; her face broadcasts exactly who Eliza Doolittle is -- a girl of poverty, decency, ambition, and wit -- set the screen a-sparkle.

"Sexy Rexy" earned his nickname by running through women like I run through kitchen sponges; there were two suicides. Harrison *is* Higgins (In the same way that he was also Captain Gregg, King Mongkut, Julius Cesar and Pope Julius. He really owned these roles.) Harrison is entirely believable, even though his performance is stagey, larger than life, and his dialogue frequently over-the-top.

"My Fair Lady" was based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," which took its title from a sublime Greek myth. Sculptor, and misogynist, Pygmalion sees no need for a woman in his life. Perhaps thanks to unconscious motivation, he carves a woman: Galatea. Over time, the proud bachelor metamorphosizes into a humble supplicant. Please, he begs of love goddess Aphrodite, grant me this one boon: allow my Galatea to come to life; allow me to love her. Just as his hard arrogance melts, and he resurrects to a new life of love, Galatea's marble melts, and she lives to love her Pygmalion.

Shaw appropriated the title, but he violated the myth, perhaps in self-exculpation. Shaw was excessively attached to his mother; he never had sex with his wife, and he threatened his mistresses. Shaw didn't allow *his* creation, Higgins, to overcome his problem with women, to experience on the page or the stage what eluded arrogant Shaw in life.

One definition of "main character": it's the character who changes. The title of this myth is "Pygmalion," the name of the sculptor. It's *his* journey that has made this tale poignant to two plus millennia of fans. Where there is life, there is change. Death rejects change. Shaw's Pygmalion, Higgins, may as well be dead.

It is a convention of Romantic movies that the lead couple "meet cute." They do, in "My Fair Lady." Language scholar Henry Higgins is about to travel to India to meet scholar Colonel Pickering, and Colonel Pickering is traveling to India to meet Higgins. In London, they have a star-crossed meeting.

Higgins' eyes twinkle when he looks at Pickering. He is endlessly affectionate to, appreciative of, and polite with Colonel Pickering.

Eliza? Higgins treats her, from start to finish, with utter contempt, and more than a little softcore S&M. He denies her food. He shoves marbles into her mouth and forces her to attempt to recite. She struggles; she can't; she swallows a marble. Higgins shoves more in her. Ha, ha, ha. There are websites that cater to this sort of kink. Higgins, in a very grim scene, calls Eliza an "insect," a "creature." By the end of the movie, when Eliza is in Higgins' presence, she keeps silent till spoken to, and looks at the floor. And he looks, not only old enough to be her father, but perhaps her grandfather.

When Eliza makes her two breakthroughs -- the "Rain in Spain" scene and the "Embassy ball" scene, Higgins doesn't so much as look at Eliza; he celebrates passionately with -- Pickering. Higgins doesn't say, "I think *you've* got it" to Eliza, he says, "I think *she's* got it" to Pickering. After the "Spain" scene, Higgins interrupts his arm-in-arm ascent of the stairs, to bed, with Pickering, to playact dressing Pickering up in a gown; later he says that Eliza's Ascot gown doesn't fit because he and Pickering bought it together, without Eliza.

Harrison and Hepburn have zero chemistry; even in still photos. Harrison looks overcome with contempt and distaste; she looks terrified.

Sure, Higgins admits, "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face." Of course. Eliza knows where his slippers are. In the end, the writing is so phony and transparent you want to FedEx Shaw to the National Organization of Women. Eliza accepts an unchanged relationship with an unchanged Higgins. Uh, huh. We believe that. Not.

Imagine how fine this film could have been had we had a scene where we see Higgins undergo the change that rocked Pygmalion's world, and some of our own, as well, when we finally found love.

Yes, it is a nice Cinderella story, and Audrey plays a fine role.There is an excellent message about the ingrained Brit Class System circa 1910..And there are some nice costumes, mainly women's hats, at the Horse race..Add to this a few memorable songs..So what is the problem with this ? Mainly, the near- nauseating character of Higgins, an old fashioned snob and misogynist of the ugliest type, who we have to watch sneer and scold for the better part of two hours! Not pretty! True, Pickering is a nice counterpoint, and really a decent old chap, but Higgins is the main character, and to watch and listen to this old goat goes well beyond a pleasant way to spend time! The song and dance numbers are hardly even third rate. Any comparison with a 1940's-50's MGM musical puts this one to shame! No dancing to speak of, and very low production quality..Then again, this was Warner, not known for musicals!..And there is a claustrophic sense here that says , "How can I get away from this miserable phonetics teacher?" It's near impossible..I can think of at least 30 musicals far and away above this, not just MGM, but Fred and Ginger, and so forth..In fact, 3-stars may be too kind for this one, since it is way below the hype!..Also, check out the 1930's PYGMALION with Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, and you can easily see how almost the entire movie (MY FAIR LADY) was completely taken from PYGMALION, including the sets and dialogue..About the only thing new is the songs, which are fun and amusing, but not really in the top tier of great musical tunes.

I had not watched this marvelous movie for many years when I took the opportunity to watch it again. The movie is a little stiff in places, but that stiffness seemed, to me, to enhance the formality of English high society. Audrey Hepburn belies that stiffness with her free-spirited characterization of Eliza Doolittle. Eliza contrasts nicely with Henry Higgin's mother, played by veteran actor Gladys Cooper ("The Happiest Millionaire," "The Song of Bernadette," and "The List of Adrian Messenger"). Mrs. Higgins is quite proper and perfect in every situation. Henry, played by the incomparable Sir Rex Harrison, is disdainful and aloof. Henry believes he is the remote scientific observer who can categorize and stereotype everyone, and is not affected by his surroundings.

A problem arises when Henry Higgins bets Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White, "Ten Little Indians" (1965) and "In Search of the Castaways") that he could take anyone, such as Eliza Doolittle, and turn them into something like a lady's maid or a shop girl. Colonel Pickering takes Henry up on his bet, volunteering to finance the experiment.

Looking at the next part of this movie with five decades of life, I quickly saw the problem that Henry was getting into. Henry was taking a human life adjusted to a certain set of surroundings, modifying that life so that it no longer fit in, and was then prepared to cast that life adrift once he proved his point. Henry failed to see that he did anything wrong, and therein lies the irony and pathos of this movie. The question a first-time watcher asks is whether Henry will be able to grow up at last and realize that people require compassion and empathy and are more than science experiments.

In addition to a marvelous story, this movie boasts wonderful music and excellent sets. Though some of Audrey Hepburn's singing survived, Marni Nixon sang most of the music attributed to Hepburn. Nixon's singing was phenomenal and her singing voice is close enough to Hepburn's that it sounds as though Hepburn could be singing.

Other singing numbers contained extensive choreography on expansive sets. Two complexly choreographed songs that come to mind are "Get Me to the Church on Time" and the "Ascot Gavotte."

This movie featured an array of sets depicting street scenes and interior scenes. Though the street scenes were excellent, my favorite set in the movie has always been Henry Higgin's incredible library. I would love to have his library in my house, though duplicating that library would be incredibly expensive.

This movie won 20 awards, which includes eight Oscars. Rex Harrison won the Best Actor Oscar and the movie won the Best Picture Oscar, both highly coveted awards. Harrison won many other awards for this film, and "My Fair Lady" became the most awarded movie of 1965.

Of course, awards do not necessarily mean a film is either good or great. However, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn and Wilfrid Hyde-White have such incredible acting skills and such screen presence that they make this film a joy to watch. I was spell-bound as I watched Audrey Hepburn become Eliza Doolittle and capture the hearts of everyone in the movie. Rex Harrison was incredible as Henry Higgins. This movie was either Harrison's best, or one of his best.

The story is also captivating. Henry Higgins experiments with the life of a human being. What Henry Higgins failed to realize is that once he became involved with his subject, he lost his objectivity and learned compassion. Love can come from compassion. The only thing that surprised me in this viewing of the movie is that I previously had not realized how early in the movie that Eliza Doolittle had come to love Henry Higgins.

"My Fair Lady" is one of the best musicals of all time. The combination of story, acting, singing and sets is amazing. Fans of musicals and love stories will enjoy this movie, even on multiple viewings.

Enjoy!

I personally like classic movies compared to some of the movies out there now.

The DVD does not work in Ireland so it is absolutely useless!! I should have been made aware of this when I was purchasing the product. I would like to be refunded in full for the three DVDs I have purchased: My Fair Lady, Paris when it Sizzles and Breakfast at Tiffanys (purchased at the same time)
Also the packaging costs were not displayed until i had entered my credit card number and were much too expensive.
Overall i am extremely disappointed with my experience and I expect to be compensated for this.

I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED "MY FAIR LADY" IT IS A GREAT MOVIE, THE SINGING S GREAT AND NOW WITH THE NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM IT EVEM MAKES IS LOOK GREAT EVEN WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE WHEN I SAW IT IN 1964.

Good service. The little box was cheap and ineffective requiring scotch tape to hold it closed. Most are snap-shut design. Other than this, the product is very good.

The price was fair, I received sooner than I expected.
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This movie is a clssic if you have never seen it and you enjoy old musicals this movie is for you. I can not get enough of it I bought it and still watch it iver and over again.

I have the Laser Disc version of this film along with the special features. I bought the DVD for convenience sake. But, this pressing is not in the same league. The DVD is not so sharp visually (which I could live with) but the sound track is terribly distorted. In particular the choral numbers are unlistenable. Even the two serving maids who sing along with Eliza's "I could have danced...etc" are distorted. With all the advanced technology available to modern pressing plants, is this the best they could do? I have many vintage film musicals and a large collection of older opera performances which have now been released on DVD and this "My Fair Lady" is easily the worst as far as sound is concerned.