Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady 1964)

Eliza Doolittle is the main character in the musical Warner Bros. film My Fair Lady.
She is portrayed by the late British actress Audrey Hepburn.
== Bio ==
In Edwardian London, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Covent Garden flower girl Eliza Doolittle, who agrees to take speech lessons to improve her job prospects. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond — one that is threatened by an aristocratic suitor.
== Story ==
The film, set in London in 1912, opens outside the Covent Garden opera house, where noted phonetics expert Henry Higgins is taking notes on the accents of those around him, especially the Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle. He tells language expert Col. Hugh Pickering that, given enough time, he could teach Eliza to speak English well enough for her to be taken for a duchess. The following morning Eliza arrives at Higgins’s home, seeking elocution lessons in order to gain employment at a flower shop. Pickering declares that he will pay for such lessons if Higgins can make good on his claim. Higgins agrees to help Eliza, who moves into his home. A few days later Eliza’s father, Alfred P. Doolittle, a dustman, arrives, asking after his daughter and seeking money. He accepts £5. Impressed by his approach to ethics, Higgins recommends him to a wealthy American who is studying morality.
Higgins subjects Eliza to many forms of speech training, none of which is successful. Just as Higgins and Pickering are about to give up, Higgins gives Eliza an encouraging speech, extolling the glories of the English language, and she experiences a breakthrough. As a test, Higgins takes her to the Ascot racecourse. Here she meets a number of people, including Higgins’s mother, Mrs. Higgins, and a young man, Freddy Eynsford-Hill. All are charmed by her impeccable accent and not fully reformed grammar, but she relapses into Cockney when urging on a racehorse. After further training, Eliza is put to the final test. 
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