Fact1: accent and tone of one 's voice determines person 's prospects in society, Fact2: Higgins pass them off as duke or duchess at embassy ball, Fact3: Eliza 's ambition is to work in flower shop, Fact4: Pickering is invited to stay with professor Having come from India to meet Higgins, Fact5: Eliza shows up at Higgins home following morning seeking lessons
Output: In Edwardian London, Professor Henry Higgins Rex Harrison, a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of ones voice determines a persons prospects in society. In Covent Garden one evening, he boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering Wilfrid HydeWhite, himself an expert in phonetics, that he could teach any person to speak in a way that he could pass them off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball. Higgins selects as an example a young flower seller, Eliza Doolittle Audrey Hepburn, who has a strong Cockney accent. Elizas ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her thick accent makes her unsuitable. Having come from India to meet Higgins, Pickering is invited to stay with the professor. The following morning, Eliza shows up at Higgins home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all expenses if the experiment should be successful. Elizas father, Alfred P. Doolittle Stanley Holloway, a dustman, shows up three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughters virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the mans honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack of morals. Higgins recommends Alfred to a wealthy American who is interested in morality. Eliza goes through many forms of speech training, such as speaking with marbles in her mouth, enduring Higgins harsh approach to teaching and his treatment of her personally. She makes little progress, but just as she, Higgins, and Pickering are about to give up, Eliza finally gets it; she instantly begins to speak with an impeccable upper class accent. As a test, Higgins takes her to Ascot Racecourse, where she makes a good impression initially, only to shock everyone by a sudden lapse into vulgar Cockney while cheering on a horse. Higgins, who dislikes the pretentiousness of the upper class, partly conceals a grin behind his hand. He next has Eliza pose as a mysterious lady at an embassy ball where she dances with a foreign prince. At the ball is Zoltan Karpathy Theodore Bikel, a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. After a brief conversation with Eliza, he certifies that she is not only Hungarian, but of royal blood, declaring her to be a Princess. After all the effort she has put in, however, Elizas actions are barely acknowledged, with all the praise going to Higgins. This, and his callous treatment towards her afterwards, especially his indifference to her future, causes her to throw Higgins slippers at him, and to walk out on him, leaving him mystified by her ingratitude. Accompanied by Freddy EynsfordHill Jeremy Brett, a young man she met at Ascot and who is charmed by her, Eliza makes an attempt to return to her old life, but finds that she no longer fits in. She meets her father, who has been left a large fortune by the wealthy American to whom Higgins had recommended him, and is resigned to marrying Elizas stepmother. Alfred feels that Higgins has ruined him, since he is now bound by morals and responsibility. Eliza kindly refuses an invitation to the wedding and eventually ends up visiting Higgins mother Gladys Cooper, who is outraged at her sons behaviour. The next day, Higgins finds Eliza gone and searches for her, eventually finding her at his mothers house. Higgins attempts to talk Eliza into coming back to him. He becomes angered when Eliza announces that she is going to marry Freddy and become Karpathys assistant. He makes his way home, stubbornly predicting that she will come crawling back. However, he comes to the realization that he has grown accustomed to her face. Henry returns to his study to lament his loneliness. As he listens to Elizas recorded voice, she reappears in the doorway behind him, turning off the recording and saying in her old Cockney accent, I washed my hands and face before I come I did. Higgins looks surprised then pleased before asking for his slippers once more as Eliza smiles on behind him, leaving the audience to decide what happens next.