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Another 15 wins & 13 nominations. See more awards » Videos A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. Director: Robert Wise Young Oliver Twist runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. Director: Carol Reed A magical nanny helps bring the two children she's in charge of closer to their father through songs and magical adventures. Director: Robert Stevenson A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. Directors: Michael Anderson, John Farrow Stars: David Niven, Cantinflas, Finlay Currie Edit Storyline 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 Eliza Doolittle, who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond -- one that is threatened by an aristocratic suitor. Written by Jwelch5742 The loverliest motion picture of them all!

See more » Genres: 25 December 1964 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Mi bella dama See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Of the main cast only Stanley Holloway actually sang. The others were either dubbed or just talked their way through the songs. See more » Goofs In the Royal Ascot scene, the horses race in the wrong direction. Ascot is a right-handed track where the horses race clockwise and the grandstand is on the outside of the track. The camera is facing the crowd, so the horses should race from left to right, but they're shown racing the other way. See more » Quotes [first lines] [sounds from crowd, occasionally a word or phrase, indistinct and mostly not associated with a character] Mrs. Eynsford-Hill : Don't just stand there, Freddy, go and find a cab. Freddy Eynsford-Hill : All right, I'll get it, I'll get it.

See more » Crazy Credits In the posters, playbills and the original cast album for the stage version of "My Fair Lady", the credits always read "based on Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' ", letting the audience know what play "My Fair Lady" was actually adapted from. The movie credits simply read "from a play by Bernard Shaw". See more » Connections I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (1956) (uncredited) A musical with a brain as well as a heart 28 August 2003 | by eliza-doolittle (Cambridge) – See all my reviews There's a lot of negative things been said about Audrey Hepburn's interpretation of the role of Eliza. Perhaps she's not ideal in the earliest scenes of the movie - her "dirtiness" is never quite believable - but it has to be said that despite this smallish drawback she still glows, and makes an amazing Eliza overall.

The reason for this is simple; Audrey Hepburn brings her "own spark of divine fire", (to quote Higgins) to the role and her vulnerability, mixed with her sweet, naive charm and even her wonderfully juvenile pettishness shown in "Just You Wait" all prove what a talented actress she really is. For an example of this, just watch Eliza's facial expression at Ascot, when she realises her opportunity to demonstrate her new-found mastery of the English tongue - sweetly hilarious. MFL has been criticized as being too romanticized, too overblown. I disagree; musicals are suposed to be lavish affairs, and none pull it off quite so well as "My Fair Lady" does. It's a momentous film but it has its subtle points: watch the way in which Eliza's eyes are centred on Higgins when she enters at the ball, and the way in which the two of them stare at each other for a few seconds at the top of the stairs a few moments later. It musn't be overlooked that, thanks to its being based on a Bernard Shaw play, "My Fair Lady" has what the great majority of musicals lack: a deeper meaning and something really quite profound to say.

The actor in the role of Colonel Pickering is a little weak, but it must be said that Rex Harrison IS Henry Higgins. In a lot of ways (in fact, in most ways) Higgins has an objectionable personality: rude, snobbish, impatient and even misogynistic, but somehow Rex Harrison pulls it all off and makes us like Higgins without betraying the character. As to romance, his song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" is an ode to the kind of love which sneaks up on you. Overall, this movie is romantic, but not too sentimental. It has just enough romance to be dramatically fulfilling, but it never becomes soppy or mawkish. The word "love" is never mentioned at all and the two leads never even kiss. The famous end sequence is perfect and does the movie justice; after all, a big happy bow tied around a perfect romance at the end would simply not fit with everything we have learned about the two protagonists. 91 of 152 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady) or Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) who gave the better performance?

Follow DL on Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady) or Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) who gave the better performance? Yes we all know that Julie played Eliza in My Fair Lady on Broadway. And then was denied the chance to recreate her role in the film, which was played by Audrey Hepburn (with vocals dubbed by Marni Nixon). Then Julie got her revenge, so to speak, when she played Mary Poppins and won the Oscar. And Audrey wasn't even nominated. Rex Harrison won the Oscar for My Fair Lady and in his acceptance speech thanked BOTH his Fair Ladies. But in watching both My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins, in your opinion who gave the performance, Audrey Hepburn for My Fair Lady or Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins? Choose between these two actresses only. Discuss. by Anonymous reply 126 03/11/2015 Yawn.%0D %0D Never liked Julie as Mary Poppins, can't understand how she won the best actress - but of course she was the new girl in town (like Audrey [for Roman Holiday], Grace, Julie Christie, Judy Holliday etc). %0D %0D My Fair Lady is an embalmed musical ...

and dull dull dull. Songs are great though, I loved the original broadway cast album (one of first record purchases as a kid). by Anonymous reply 1 10/29/2010 [quote] Never liked Julie as Mary Poppins, can't understand how she won the best actress It was a consolation prize for her NOT getting MFL. by Anonymous Both of them are overrated and mundane, with zero sex appeal. Sod this thread. by Anonymous reply 5 10/29/2010 Forget that, Rex Harrison was fucking terrible and still got the Oscar for NOT singing in a musical. by Anonymous reply 6 10/29/2010 Andrews, only because Hepburn was so unconvincing as a cockney girl.%0D %0D Of the nominees in 1964, Anne Bancroft's performance in the little seen PUMPKIN EATER blows those two ladies clean away. by Anonymous reply 7 10/29/2010 Speaking of Bancroft - the same thing happened years later regarding the lead role in Agnes of God.

Geraldine Page played it on Broadway and wasn't given the film. But Page beat Bancroft for the Oscar - winning for Trip to Bountiful while Bancroft was nominated for Agnes. Other than the Bancroft-Page and Hepburn-Andrews has this happened any other time? by Anonymous reply 8 10/29/2010 Audrey Hepburn was vastly underrated as an actress. Not only was she a true original, but she was as beautiful inside as she was outside. When she started slogging through the hell-holes of Africa to help children, she rose to a level--unintentionally and unknowingly--above other celebrities. She is generally considered the first person to use her celebrity to advance charitable giving. She is terribly missed by many people. by Anonymous reply 10 10/30/2010 Bancroft did that weird thing a lot of really talented performers do when they hit middle age--she started phoning it in. Instead of getting better as a result of more experience, she started faking it.

She's in good company--Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Geraldine Page, etc., did the same.%0D %0D by Anonymous reply 11 10/30/2010 I voted for Audrey just because Julie Andrews is such a ham actor and is basically humorless. I think Audrey had a sense of the ridiculous role she was playing, but Julie played Mary Poppins straight and chewed up the scenery like Jeannette MacDonald. by Anonymous reply 12 10/30/2010 r11, I have to add Julie Andrews to your list. She started getting lazy by speaking portions of songs that should have been sung. Watch The Sound of Music or any other musical she's in and count the number of times she "speaks" a note rather than sings it. by Anonymous reply 14 11/02/2010 "Bancroft did that weird thing a lot of really talented performers do when they hit middle age--she started phoning it in."%0D %0D I disagree in part.

She's terrific in GARBO TALKS (the one time she played Jewish well) and in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD. And she's one of the few good things in HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.%0D %0D A lot of her other films didn't provide any real challenge for her - they were just jobs.%0D %0D Considering her talent, it's really amazing how few really first-class films she got to make. The pre-MIRACLE WORKER films she was stuck in while she was a contract player at 20th were mostly abysmal. by Anonymous Audrey Hepburn is a class act. Julie can't match it. by Anonymous reply 20 11/03/2010 Agreed r18! I love the songs in MFL but how anyone can choose to watch that film over Pygmalion is beyond me.

The performances just don't compare,and I thought Audrey Hepburn was woefully miscast (Eliza needs to be played by an actress who can be convincing as both flower girl and duchess, but Hepburn only really managed the latter).%0D %0D Love, love, love Dame Wendy's work, she was truly fabulous. by Anonymous reply 21 11/03/2010 Wasn't Mary Poppins at the time of its release also considered a HUGE comeback for the Disney studio? by Anonymous reply 22 11/03/2010 Love Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard in "Pygmalion". Actually believed there was some sexual tension. Harrison was too old and too tired of the role by the time the movie was filmed. by Anonymous reply 23 04/06/2011 Andrews deserved the Oscar just for keeping a straight face whenever Dick Van Dyke spoke in that horrible accent. by Anonymous reply 24 04/06/2011 My Fair Lady is a terrible film - boring and not filmed with any cinematic ingenuity at all.

Every time I see "The Pumpkin Eater," I can't get past Anne Bancroft's poor excuse for an English accent. by Anonymous I thought Ms. Andrews was pretty nifty in that film about a serial killer of children. by Anonymous reply 28 04/06/2011 Definitely Audrey. Even though Julie can sing, she was never convincing in the role.%0D Audrey may have been an "elite" guttersnipe, but when she gets to the part in the film where she goes to the ball, no one can touch her. It was one of her best performances, if not the best. by Anonymous reply 29 08/31/2011 [quote]My Fair Lady is a terrible film - boring and not filmed with any cinematic ingenuity at all. It's very square, isn't it? A romance with no romance whatsoever. Rex Harrison is a big problem: he's completely without charm or sex appeal. (You can see how casting Cary Grant might improved the film.) But Cukor's draggy, dull direction is the main offender.

by Anonymous reply 30 08/31/2011 R31....yes, and they gave him an Oscar for that draggy, dull direction. He was more deserving of that Oscar for just about any other film he directed. by Anonymous reply 31 08/31/2011 My Fair Lady is an interminably boring film and Hepburn is just awful. She was always a very limited actress but her acting in this film betrayed her absolute cluelessness when it came to playing anyone who wasn't upper class or upper middle class. by Anonymous reply 32 08/31/2011 I love My Fair Lady- I think it is stunning to look at- the races?%0D %0D Mary Poppins was silly. Disney- dated at best. Much prefer Polyanna for that ilk of movie. %0D %0D Julie Andrews should have been in the movie- she nailed the role on the stage and of course owned the music. Hepburn is alternatively adorable, grand when needed and silly when dubbed singing. Bit mistake- but still loads of fun. And the music is the best.

by Anonymous reply 33 08/31/2011 Imagining what Julie Andrews could have done in the film version of MY FAIR LADY definitely makes Audrey seem pale in comparison. Audrey is GORGEOUS in the transformation but rather amateurish in the first half of the movie and her lipsynching never really feels believable.%0D %0D Imgaine if Julie's voice had been singing that score and acting it. That would have been quite a movie debut. by Anonymous reply 34 08/31/2011 [quote]She is generally considered the first person to use her celebrity to advance charitable giving.%0D %0D No! by Anonymous reply 35 08/31/2011 Audrey was mediocre in "Fair Lady" - but the film is just awful. One of the worst "Best Pictures" ever, and the choice to film completely in the studio is part of what deadens it. Anne Bancroft's British accent in "Pumpkin Eater" is embarrassing.

Right up there alongside Anne Hathaway's current Brit turn in "One Day." Debbie Reynolds is loud and gaudy and not terrific in "Molly Brown." Sophia Lauren is pretty great in "Marriage, Italian Style" and Kim Stanley does what Kim Stanley always does in "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" (she's pretty great, too, but always Kim Stanley). Julie was a perfectly acceptable choice for "Mary Poppins" given the competition. She's terrific in "Poppins." The following year, when there was some real acting going on, she lost out for "The Sound of Music," which is as it should be. by Anonymous reply 36 08/31/2011 I think she should have played Mary as a bigger cunt, like she is in the books. by Anonymous Andrews did a fantastic job in "Darling Lili" with Rock Hudson. by Anonymous 08/31/2011 [quote]Much prefer Polyanna for that ilk of movie. Ilk means clan. Yes, it's a synonym for "sort" or "kind" but it is really only well-chosen word when used to describe groups of people.

by Anonymous reply 42 08/31/2011 Andrews is a very good actress. She's no Meryl Streep, but she's good. It's ridiculous to call her "dreadful," r40, as if she were Theresa Russell or Jennifer Jason Leigh or one of the Bay Watch girls. by Anonymous reply 43 08/31/2011 There's a lot of blather this thread. First of all, while the film of MY FAIR LADY has many flaws, it's simply not true that "the actors are playing to the last row." What a ridiculous comment. And though Audrey Hepburn is not entirely believable as the guttersnipe -- because of her lovely, delicate boned, aristocratic features -- her Cockney accent is very well done. by Anonymous reply 44 08/31/2011 I love Mary Poppins and thought Julie as fantastic. The songs by the Sherman Brothers are still pop cultural references. %0D %0D but yah Van Dyke's accent as admittedly terrible. by Anonymous Dick Van Dyke - now THAT would have been an Eliza Doolittle for the ages.

by Anonymous reply 46 08/31/2011 I saw the restored My Fair Lady at the Gramercy Theater a few years ago and it was delightful from beginning to end. Great sets, costumes, photography --the acting was fine, the songs sublime, and the entire production a dream. I know from bloated film musicals -- Hello, Dolly or Camelot, anyone -- and MFL ain't one of them. by Anonymous reply 47 09/01/2011 Julie Andrews gave 8 performances a week for a year; Audrey Hepburn only had to get it right once -- and even then, with her voice dubbed. Is there really any question? by Anonymous reply 48 09/01/2011 I never understood the ridiculous criticism of Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent in POPPINS. It was a Disney children's musical for Christ's sake where the characters danced with cartoons! Were you really expecting vocal verisimilitude?? by Anonymous Julie sang and Audrey did not. Wasn't that basically why?

reply 52 09/01/2011 Audrey did sing, but Jack Warner felt the vocals could be better and had Marni Nixon dub Audrey's singing voice. by Anonymous reply 53 09/01/2011 {quote] Julie Andrews gave 8 performances a week for a year; Audrey Hepburn only had to get it right once Bette Davis said the same thing when she lost the Oscar first to Judy Holiday and then second to Anne Bancroft. Only she said it wasn't a fair competition and she was gypped. by Anonymous reply 54 09/01/2011 I'm reading on this thread so many people saying that Audrey was miscast as Eliza. I strongly disagree. She deftly portrays a rise from poor flower girl to intelligent woman.%0D And neither she nor Julie spoke authentic Cockney because they would not have been understood at all.%0D Talk about miscast: read any of Travers' Mary Poppins books and you will get a description that is more matched by Agnes Moorhead than Julie Andrews. When someone like Agnes says "I'm practically perfect", it comes across as funny.

For Julie to repeat the line from the children's novel, it comes across as conceited. by Anonymous reply 55 09/01/2011 [quote]Watch The Sound of Music or any other musical she's in and count the number of times she "speaks" a note rather than sings it. Musical theater material lends itself to that sort of interpretation. Surely she wasn't getting lazy in recording film soundtracks for a couple days. Songs like "I Have Confidence" were written expressly to swing back and forth between speaking and singing. Few Broadway-style singers are as prissily meticulous about producing clean clear tone as Julie Andrews when she intends to. I never believe that Audrey Hepburn is a Cockney flower girl. Her Eliza in her grubby phase is such an irritating put-on as to almost spoil the film. by Anonymous reply 56 09/01/2011 One of the smartest things Walt Disney did was not be slavish to the PL Travers books. As we've seen from the hideous turd that is the Mackintosh stage Poppins, Disney knew what he was doing.

The choices he made for the film that vary from the book are all extremely smart, not the least being casting Andrews instead of someone like Moorehead. by Anonymous reply 57 09/01/2011 [quote]I know from bloated film musicals -- Hello, Dolly or Camelot, anyone -- and MFL ain't one of them. Hello, Dolly - with all its faults, not least of which is Streisand's casting - is ten times more entertaining than Fair Lady. I saw Fair Lady when it was rereleased about fifteen years ago, and it was a total snooze. Cukor deserved an Oscar, but not for that piece of tripe. by Anonymous reply 58 09/01/2011 "I never understood the ridiculous criticism of Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent in POPPINS. It was a Disney children's musical for Christ's sake where the characters danced with cartoons! Were you really expecting vocal verisimilitude??"%0D %0D Finally some sanity at r49. Van Dyke's character was SUPPOSED to be over the top.

He's just wonderful in the film, and his dancing couldn't be better. %0D %0D by Anonymous reply 59 09/01/2011 [quote]The choices he made for the film that vary from the book are all extremely smart, not the least being casting Andrews instead of someone like Moorehead. Early on, Disney seriously considered casting Bette Davis as Mary Poppins. What a camp classic we lost! by Anonymous reply 60 09/01/2011 Why would anyone even presume to compare the performance of an actress in a musical whose voice is dubbed - but giving a perfectly lovely performance otherwise - with the performance of an actress in a musical who is singing and dancing the shit out of it - AND giving a perfectly lovely performance otherwise? next! reply 61 09/01/2011 The non-singer Hepburn managed to put songs across (e.g., How Long Has This Been Going On, Moon River) with more emotional force than Andrews ever did. by Anonymous Is Audry Hepburn the key to stopping the obesity epidemic?

by Anonymous reply 65 09/01/2011 Strange to see all the hate for My Fair Lady here. The movie is made by a great film director who knows how to pace a film, keep it rhythmic and the shots consistently interesting and indelible. To me there is not a boring moment in it and there is nothing amiss in Audrey's performance, minus - and this is a big minus which makes OP's question completely rhetorical Julie not only gave the better performance in MP but should have gotten the movie of MFL) she didn't sing it. Harrison and the supporting cast are genius. Holloway's production numbers are extremely well done, the Ascot Gavotte is a classic, and the music and design elements all blend sublimely. The idea that Hello Dolly is a better movie - you are entitled to your opinion of course - is to me, laughable. Sorry. by Anonymous reply 66 09/03/2011 r 66: MY FAIR LADY is the epitome of the typical 1960s stage to film adaption. An "Important" musical property, of course, made with exceeding care and reverence...

and resulting in a film that is embalmed and lifeless. by Anonymous reply 67 09/03/2011 Oliver was a similar London-based musical, hugely successful on stage, that uses real locations in its film version but is still just as bombastic and stagey as MFL if not more so. %0D %0D Great stage musicals are great because the're live and on stage and not originally conceived to be cinematic. Have you had a look at West Side Story lately? Blech!!!%0D %0D Great movie musicals which are originally conceived for the screen....Singin' in the Rain, Meet Me in St. Louis, 42nd Street work because they are innately cinematic (I don't care how successful the stage version of 42nd St has been, it still stinks!). by Anonymous reply 68 09/03/2011 I wish there could have been two film versions of MFL: One with the original stage cast and one with Hepburn and Cary Grant. I think Oliver is one of the worst filmed musicals of all time. Unwatchable. I do not care for Mary Poppins.

I love Julie Andrews but do not like this film. by Anonymous reply 69 09/03/2011 "One of the smartest things Walt Disney did was not be slavish to the PL Travers books. As we've seen from the hideous turd that is the Mackintosh stage Poppins, Disney knew what he was doing." Amen! reply 70 09/03/2011 Oliver! the film is much better than the stage version. It improves the placement of some of the songs (particularly the tense way they use "Oom-Pah-Pah" as opposed to the "aren't we all happy" act two opener it is on stage), and the musical numbers are brilliant. Oliver! is a much better film than Fair Lady. by Anonymous reply 71 09/03/2011 [quote]The movie is made by a great film director who knows how to pace a film, keep it rhythmic and the shots consistently interesting and indelible No argument on Cukor's talents,but he didn't do any of those things on FAIR LADY.

He deserved an Oscar, but for one of his truly great films, not for that deadly dull Lerner and Loewe stinker. by Anonymous reply 72 09/03/2011 I don't hate the movie of My Fair Lady, but I couldn't disagree more with r66 saying it shows that Cukor knows how to pace a film. To me, the pacing is sluggish, and makes a piece that should sparkle and fly by instead feel overlong and bloated. by Anonymous reply 73 09/03/2011 Minnelli wanted too much money, so the studio went with Cukor. %0D %0D Cukor and Cecil Beaton fought viciously. With Beaton, it was always about him. I think Beaton's work is a bit overrated here. The Ascot costumes are pretty dazzing. But Hepburn's embassy ball dress and hairstyle aren't particularly flattering to her beauty.%0D %0D by Anonymous reply 74 09/03/2011 Most of Beaton's costume work on MFL, Gigi and everything else he did looks pretty dated and of its time now.

%0D %0D Though perhaps it's more done in by the atrocious contemporary hairstyling and makeup, of which he may not have had complete control. by Anonymous reply 75 09/03/2011 I agree that the ballgown wasn't very flattering, r74, it seemed to emphasize her scrawniness and flat-chested-ness. And the huge top-heavy pile of her hair looks like it would cause muscle strain on her scrawny neck! by Anonymous reply 76 09/03/2011 "The non-singer Hepburn managed to put songs across (e.g., How Long Has This Been Going On, Moon River) with more emotional force than Andrews ever did." THIS. reply 77 09/03/2011 LOL.....half of Holloway's mouth movements didn't even match the playback in "Get Me to the Church on Time" - I don't know which is more hideous....Holloway or Harrison. Audrey didn't stand a chance - AND Lerner and Loewe were in on the decision to can Hepburn's vocals and go with Nixon.

by Anonymous reply 78 09/03/2011 Oh, Christ Almighty. I'll grant you that both Hepburn and Andrews didn't give the best performances of their careers that year. I'd say Hepburn did the better job, but maybe that's because it wasn't a cartoon character and her costumes were fantastic and at least Cukor got an Oscar finally. And I'll agree Bancroft gave a better performance in "Pumpkin Eater" than those two did, but I would rather have seen Kim Stanley get the award for "Seance for a Wet Afternoon." I wouldn't have minded Sophia Loren, either, but Bancroft's performance was more "Oscar worthy." I still don't know how Debbie Reynolds ended up with a nomination - it was 4 years after the Fisher divorce, so it wasn't sympathy for losing Eddie to Liz, was it? BUT please don't pull the "Agnes of God" comparison for 1985 as a "Stolen Again from Ann Bancroft Year." By that time in her career Bancroft was pretty much chewing her way through performances and this one was no exception.

She concocted a Frankenstein's monster of all the Mother Superior roles she had seen and POW, there she was. She did everything but smoke cigars and pull up her habit to scratch a hairy leg. Page was given the sympathy vote and her tics and vamps drove me to distraction in "A Trip to Bountiful." F. Murray Abraham's presentation of her award is one of most cringeworthy moments in Oscar history, especially given the film for which she won. Any of the other three nominees in 1985 could have won with no complaint from me. Lange wasn't Patsy Cline but she was wonderful. Streep gave one of her best performances in a god-awful movie. But for me the finest performance - and the only decent one she ever gave - was Whoopi Goldberg's. I can watch that sticky, inauthentic fairy tale from that too-careful director just for the pleasure of her performance. Brilliant. All of which is a long way from Mary Poppins and Eliza Doolittle, but there really isn't much to say about THEM, is there?

Except a real Cockney should force Dick Van Dyke to swallow a dozen pearl buttons and a jellied eel for his Bert. Shudder. by Anonymous reply 79 09/03/2011 Some of the decisions to dub Hepburn seem insane. For example (see link), the "Just You Wait" number. by Anonymous reply 80 09/03/2011 Just a thought...how in he hell is everyone on DL an expert on what an authentic Cockney accent sounds like? You'd think that everyone lived in Covent Garden in the early 1900s the way these queens are critiquing Dick Van Dyke's accent. He sounds just fine to me. by Anonymous reply 81 09/03/2011 R81, all of the UK will tell you with one voice that Dick van Dyke's attempt at a Cockney accent is the worst ever committed to film. It's not really a matter of personal opinion. What he did was not Cockney. He botched it badly and even he admits it. I feel bad for the previous posters who disliked OLIVER!

In my opinion is the best stage-to-film translation of all time and I pity those who can't enjoy it. I agree with most here that the film version of MY FAIR LADY is a long beautiful bore. by Anonymous reply 82 09/03/2011 R81, the fact that you are ignorant doesn't mean the rest of our ears are. R82 has it right. Plus my apartment in South Kensington afforded me easy access both to Covent Garden, where Cockney flower girls are admittedly rare today, and Whitechapel. While elements of Cockney actually have spread into common speech around young Londoners since the 1960s, you tend to hear more Cockney speakers outside London, arond Hertfordshire and even Essex. In other words, you hairy berk, bugger off. by Anonymous reply 83 09/04/2011 Pajama Game is the best transposition of show to film.

Maybe because it's not that briliant to begin with, but still....%0D %0D And then.%0D %0D Oscar winners who won for a role they created on stage:%0D %0D Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker%0D %0D Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker%0D %0D Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday%0D %0D Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady%0D %0D Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl%0D %0D Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba%0D %0D Morgan Freeman for Driving Miss Daisy%0D %0D Did Kim Hunter and Karl Malden win for Streetcar?%0D %0D Anyone else? by Anonymous reply 84 09/04/2011 Morgan Freeman didn't win for Daisy. He lost to Daniel Day Lewis, who won for My Left Foot. Freeman's Oscar came many years later for his supporting turn in Million Dollar Baby. by Anonymous reply 85 09/04/2011 Both films would have been remarkably better if they had cast Lucille Ball in both roles, as originally intended.

Sadly, however, she was forced to turn them down due the stress of her divorce from Desi and the vocal exhaustion she experienced after doing WILDCAT on Broadway eight shows a week. Both Jack Warner and Walt Disney were devastated by her refusal, and went with their second choice for each role. by Anonymous reply 86 09/04/2011 Disney didn't want Lucy to play Mary Poppins. He wanted her for the role of Uncle Arthur, who was going to be called Aunt Artimus. This was when he planned to have popular sitcom stars pop up here and there - Phil Silvers as a chimney sweep, Danny Thomas as one of the Pearlies, Eve Arden as one of the nannies who gets blown away. Fortunately, he changed his concept. by Anonymous reply 87 09/04/2011 [quote]afforded me easy access both to Covent Garden, where Cockney flower girls are admittedly rare today, and Whitechapel. Have I run into you in Whitechapel, by any chance? by Anonymous reply 88 09/04/2011 So what was really going on between Higgins and Pickering?

Were they lovers who enjoyed making over Eliza? by Anonymous r84, yes, Hunter and Malden originated Stella and Mitch on stage. I'm sure there might be others, but you forgot Yul Brynner in King and I. by Anonymous reply 90 09/04/2011 "Some of the decisions to dub Hepburn seem insane. For example (see link), the "Just You Wait" number." You're kidding, right? Audrey sounds awful in almost all of those restored vocal sections, because she didn't know how to sing through her register break, resulting in some very pitchy moments. Plus, her soprano register was very weak and thin. The part of her "Just You Wait" vocal that's in the actual film is much better because of the style of singing required, and also because it's all in her chest register. This is not to say that I think the dubbing of Audrey in MY FAIR LADY was well done. Many people, including Marni Nixon, agree that it was far less successful than the dubbing of Kerr in THE KING AND I and Wood in WEST SIDE STORY.

by Anonymous reply 91 09/04/2011 [quote]You're kidding, right? Audrey sounds awful in almost all of those restored vocal sections, because she didn't know how to sing through her register break, resulting in some very pitchy moments.%0D %0D No, I'm not kidding. The movie lurches from Hepburn's speaking voice to Nixon's characterless "perfect" singing and everyone loses. %0D %0D by Anonymous reply 92 09/04/2011 As I said, I agree that the dubbing was not well done at all -- but that doesn't mean it would have been a better choice to embarrass Hepburn by using her unacceptable vocals in the rest of the movie. The best choice would have been to cast Julie Andrews, but failing that, they could have spent more time and been much more careful in dubbing Hepburn. There's one brief moment when they did this, and the results are excellent.

As you may know, in "I Could Have Danced All Night," Hepburn sings the first line ("Bed, bed, I couldn't go to bed"), Nixon sings the second line ("My head's too light to try to set it down"), Hepburn sings the third line ("Sleep, sleep, I couldn't sleep tonight"), and then Nixon picks it up again with "Not for all the jewels in the crown" and continues through the rest of the song. In those few brief seconds, the voices seem well matched, and we see and hear how much more effective the dubbing would have been if those in charge had taken that much care with the whole thing. by Anonymous reply 93 09/04/2011 MY FAIR LADY was the undoing of Jack Warner as a movie mogul. It did great business but failed to turn a profit as he spent an exorbitant amount of money bringing it to the screen. The ultimate punchline was that the equally lavish MARY POPPINS grossed almost four times as much and made boatloads of profit for Disney. R93 is right about the lack of skill shown in the dubbing process.

It's so typical of the Hollywood mentality to try to buy a hit. Warner tossed around millions to acquire the rights and millions more on sets and costumes some of which are only on screen for seconds while giving short shrift to something as fundamentally important as the leading lady's singing voice. If one bad thing came out of MY FAIR LADY it's that it taught the false lesson that you don't really need singers to put on a musical. Rex Harrison's speak-singing triumph should have been seen as an exception. Instead it became the rule and audiences suffered through twenty years of one great actor after another caterwauling off-key on stage and screen. by Anonymous reply 94 09/04/2011 Well - it's a little unfair to compare Fair Lady and King and I when it comes to dubbing. On "The King and I," Kerr knew going in that Nixon was going to be singing for her, and insisted that Nixon come to her rehearsals and that she go to Nixon's recording sessions. She wanted it to be seamless, and she worked to that aim. In the case of "Fair Lady," Hepburn prerecorded the entire score, and started filming to her own tracks.

When it was realized how unacceptable her voice was for the score, Nixon was brought in. Hepburn wasn't consulted, and certainly didn't insist on the process that Kerr did. She felt resentful, as if she'd been lied to. And the result is the mediocre dubbing job. by Anonymous reply 95 09/04/2011 r95, the same could be said for Natalie Wood who was also promised her own singing voice would be used and then betrayed.%0D %0D Not that Nat shouldn't have been dubbed.%0D %0D Why was Marni Nixon the ONLY dubber used in those days? It just seems so lazy that she was the go-to gal whether it was Cockney, Puerto Rican or whatever. Didn't she even do part of Rita Morneo's singing on WSS? by Anonymous reply 96 09/04/2011 Invaluable list of movie dubbers, broken down by film. %0D %0D What's sadly missing is a breakdown by dubbers.%0D %0D (Marni Nixon also dubbed the singing geese in MARY POPPINS.

She was everywhere!) by Anonymous 09/04/2011 [quote]Why was Marni Nixon the ONLY dubber used in those days? Marni Nixon was useful because she could produce a good generic sound that could pass for any woman who might credibly sing soprano. It's a bit of a trick to sing an entire role with full expression but in a neutral tone. She dubbed for Margaret O'Brien in THE SECRET GARDEN. It's also her voice hitting the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in the intro to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." by Anonymous reply 98 09/04/2011 Nixon only dubs a few notes for Moreno in WSS, in the Quintet, when Anita's part gets high. Supposedly Betty Wand did some dubbing for Moreno, too. by Anonymous reply 99 09/05/2011 I'm not sure how accurate that site is.

It lists Mears for Lucille Ball in "DuBarry was a Lady," but doesn't mention that Ball did her own singing on the "Friendship" number (hilarious, since she's had Mears' voice all through the movie and then suddenly there's the Lucy bray in "Friendship.") Joseph Buloff wasn't dubbed in "Silk Stockings" (maybe they meant Peter Lorre?), Rita Hayworth always claimed she was only dubbed on the nightclub version of "Mame" in Gilda, and that was her strumming the guitar and singing the quiet version (and when she finally did sing on the Carol Burnett Show, she actually had a pretty good voice). Those were the ones that jumped out at me at first glance. by Anonymous r 101: Intro: "NO!! NO! NO! NO! NO!" by Anonymous reply 102 09/05/2011 [quote]the same could be said for Natalie Wood who was also promised her own singing voice would be used and then betrayed. Wood couldn't pull off the score in West Side Story. The funniest is Rosalind Russell calming she did all of her own singing in Gypsy.

by Anonymous reply 103 09/05/2011 Hey r102!%0D %0D Could you please stop skipping a space between the r and the post number?%0D %0D Thanks so much! by Anonymous reply 104 09/05/2011 r 100: Lucy also sang in her own voice in DANCE, GIRL DANCE, and was pretty good, too. by Anonymous reply 108 09/05/2011 I think actresses like Natalie, Audrey and even Roz believed that their real voices would be used but with some sort of primitive sweetening that would make them sound good enough in their respective roles. %0D %0D None of those ladies could have been foolish or vain enough to think that their unadulterated voices would cut it. Or at least that's what Warner and the other producers told them to get them to sign on.

by Anonymous reply 109 09/05/2011 "None of those ladies could have been foolish or vain enough to think that their unadulterated voices would cut it."%0D %0D I think you may be underestimating the way in which movie stars are accustomed to having people tell them what they want to hear, r109, and to getting what they want.%0D %0D In the case of My Fair Lady, from what I've read, Audrey had been working hard on voice lessons, etc., with every expectation that they really would be using all her voice, and felt angry and betrayed when informed that wasn't going to happen. by Anonymous reply 110 09/05/2011 Roz Russell had an ego the size of Mt. Olympus. She actually thought she could sing because she was able to make it through the tailor-made talk-songs in "Wonderful Town." Then she deluded herself into thinking that it was her voice in GYPSY, when most of it was Lisa Kirk's.

Leslie Caron was another one who was told they'd be using her singing in "Gigi." (She had sung sweetly enough for her one song in "Lili.") She had a fit when she found out it wouldn't be the songs (all of which she pre-recorded), but then calmed down and admitted that she couldn't really sing. by Anonymous reply 111 09/05/2011 Speaking of laughing, Ethel Merman was given a disc of Roz's pre-records. She used to put it on at parties and all her guests would laugh hysterically. by Anonymous Out of 400 votes, Julie has won the poll 2 to 1! by Anonymous reply 114 05/11/2013 Audrey Hepburn all the way. Julie did very well, but Audrey had the more challenging acting job and gave a deeper, more realistic performance, requiring a wider range of emotions. And judging her performance based on the dubbing is just stupid-singing has nothing to do with how good an actor is. Not to mention Marni Nixon did a fantastic job singing for her.

Marni had to do a blind audition with many other singers and it was decided that, along with a great voice, she was also the best mimic amongst all the singers. Just because Julie had to perform and sing live on stage for weeks while Audrey only did it once on film doesn't mean that Julie had it harder all the time. Audrey had to give a more realistic and subtle performance because of the film medium with it's unforgiving closeups and camera angles. Despite the controversy, Audrey was praised by many critics, with at least one even saying that she was better than Julie! by Anonymous reply 115 05/12/2013 [italic]Mary Poppins[/italic] is fucking awful in any medium. If Julie had done [italic]My Fair Lady[/italic], Walt Disney never should have bothered with it at all. by Anonymous Julie Andrews definitely. She exudes true classiness. by Anonymous reply 117 09/01/2014 Cary Grant could have been an Oscar winner if he had taken the part of Higgins.

Instead he was too gracious saying no one could do the part justice than Rex Harrison by Anonymous reply 118 09/01/2014 R2, not quite. A lot of people consider it a "sentimental win" and as a consolation prize for being passed over for MY FAIR LADY. While that may be true to some extent, it occurred to me today that perhaps the releases of THE SOUND OF MUSIC and THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY before the ceremony could've been factors, too. Hear me out. MARY POPPINS was released on August 27, 1964, and became the #1 movie of the year. Seven months later, while POPPINS was still doing great business and just been nominated for an impressive 13 Oscars (including Best Picture, a first for a Disney film), MUSIC was unleashed to the world on March 2, 1965, and became a phenomenon, eventually replacing GONE WITH THE WIND as the highest-grossing movie of all time.

In between, EMILY was released on October 27, 1964, to great acclaim and did modest business and was nominated for two Oscars -- for Art Direction and Cinematography. The Oscars were held on April 5, 1965. So in the span of half a year, Andrews, who was virtually unknown to most of America, was in three hit films. Her first 3 films ever, as a matter of fact. I think that's what in the industry they call a "banner year," when a person has 2 or more hits in one year. Some people credit Sandra Bullock's banner year in 2009 -- THE PROPOSAL and THE BLIND SIDE -- with tipping the Oscar in her favor. Same with Jennifer Lawrence two years ago, who had THE HUNGER GAMES and SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. In short, MUSIC and EMILY were released before the Oscar ceremony and their acclaim and success could've perhaps tipped the win in Julie's favor, more so than the sentimentality converning MY FAIR LADY.

by Anonymous reply 119 09/01/2014 [quote]Speaking of laughing, Ethel Merman was given a disc of Roz's pre-records. She used to put it on at parties and all her guests would laugh hysterically. What a nasty fat cunt! by Anonymous reply 120 09/01/2014 I guess I have to say this for the millionth time but My Fair Lady in Super Panavision 70 and 6 track stereo on a large screen (the kind which doesn't exist anymore) is one of the great film experiences. Hepburn far surpasses Hiller. She makes not one but two breathtaking entrances which neither Hiller nor Andrews could manage(well really they couldn't manage even one) and Harrison shows a passion for language which Howard is incapable of. The entire supporting cast is perfect with Brett a Freddy with charm by the mile while in Pygmalion he is an out and out embarrassment. Andrews and Hiller were simply out of their league. And I think Andrews is great in both Mary Poppins and SOM and I Know Where I'm Going is one of my favorite movies. So the Oscar goes to Audrey.

No contest. The voice of Nixon(admittedly poorly dubbed) is a bonus. Oh, and Previn's conducting is spectacular. Much better than the conducting on the Broadway and London recordings. And none of you will ever see this. by Anonymous reply 121 09/01/2014 [quote]Oh, and Previn's conducting is spectacular. Much better than the conducting on the Broadway and London recordings. You do realize that Broadway/West End productions have smaller (around 20 people at most) orchestras? They can't compete with a film's orchestra (50+). by Anonymous reply 122 09/01/2014 I am talking about 'conducting.' There is an intensity, warmth and sweep to Previn's which does not exist on the cast recordings. I know that the orchestra is larger for a movie though I think the stage recordings might have been augmented with additional musicians. Unfortunately the soundtrack as available on cd and in fact on the original soundtrack lp is constricted in terms of dynamic range. And the digital restoration done in the 90's was very poor. I'm sure the original 6 track analogue tapes have turned to dust by now.

by Anonymous picture of Audrey & Julie TOGETHER when Julie won the Oscar by Anonymous reply 124 03/11/2015 "Speaking of Bancroft - the same thing happened years later regarding the lead role in Agnes of God. Geraldine Page played it on Broadway and wasn't given the film. But Page beat Bancroft for the Oscar - winning for Trip to Bountiful while Bancroft was nominated for Agnes. Other than the Bancroft-Page and Hepburn-Andrews has this happened any other time?" Audrey Hepburn was not nominated for the oscar for My Fair Lady.

The nominees were Julie Andrews Mary Poppins Anne Bancroft The Pumpkin Eater Sophia Loren Marriage Italian Style Debbie Renyolds The Unsinkable Molly Brown Kim Stanley Seance on a Wet Afternoon by Anonymous Marni Nixon Dies at 86 — From Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn, Here Are the Best of Her “Ghost” Vocals Marni Nixon Dies at 86 — From Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn, Here Are the Best of Her “Ghost” Vocals Pin it Share Even if you don’t know Marni Nixon by name, you’ve almost certainly heard her sing. During the golden age of Hollywood musicals, the versatile soprano, who passed away yesterday at the age of 86 from breast cancer, provided uncredited vocal performances for actresses with underwhelming singing voices, including Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Natalie Wood in West Side Story. Dubbed “the ghostess with the mostess” by Time in 1964, Nixon acquired modest fame for her particular skill of mimicking stars’ voices in song, even if the film studios themselves rarely acknowledged her contributions.

“They didn’t want it to be known that dubbing was going on,” Nixon told Philadelphia magazine in an interview last year. “They thought the value of the picture would be diminished and people might not want to go see the picture if it was known.” Here are 5 of Nixon’s greatest hits. “Tonight” from West Side Story (1961) Nixon provided the angelic singing voice for Maria, played by Natalie Wood, in this classic adaption of the Broadway musical. In the reprise of this number ( watch it here ), she also sang harmonies for another character : Anita, played by Rita Moreno. “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Marilyn Monroe could sell a song like nobody’s business, but her breathy alto couldn’t conquer the high notes. Nixon sang both the operatic intro and part of the refrain (listen for the line “These rocks don’t lose their shape”). “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady (1964) Nixon sang every note for protagonist Eliza Doolittle, played by Audrey Hepburn, in the film version of My Fair Lady.

Hepburn wasn’t a terrible singer (that’s really her crooning “Moon River” in Breakfast at Tiffany’s), but My Fair Lady gave her a lot to live up to: By the time the film came out, the score had already been popularized by original Broadway star and vocal powerhouse Julie Andrews. “Shall We Dance” from The King and I (1956) Deborah Kerr was dubbed by Nixon for The King and I, the Rogers and Hammerstein musical about a Victorian-era English governess employed to teach the royal children of Siam. Nixon also provided Kerr’s singing vocals for the 1957 romance An Affair to Remember. “Honor to Us All” from Mulan (1998) Later in her life, Nixon sang for Grandmother Fa in the musical fairytale Mulan. The singer had a long history with Disney animation: Nixon also sang for the opening titles for Cinderella , the flowers in Alice in Wonderland , and the animated geese in Mary Poppins .

(Photo: Everett Collection) My Fair Lady Movie 1964: Why It's Much Less Sexist Than You Think Archive Photos / Getty Images Audrey Hepburn in a scene from the film 'My Fair Lady' Think it's a sexist relic? Think again I know what you’re going to say about Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins. A snobby British guy in a Sherlock suit tries to “improve” a working woman by teaching her to talk pretty and look bangin’ in necklaces?! Screw you, Henry Higgins! Lean in to the flower business, Eliza! There’s nothing “loverly” about misogynistic woman-shaping narratives! Put My Fair Lady in a folder with all the other movies that “send bad messages,” like Grease and Gone With the Wind! Screw Henry Higgins, indeed, but please do not underestimate My Fair Lady, a movie that, on Tuesday, celebrates the 50th anniversary of its premiere. And although it may be easy to dismiss the 1964 movie musical as an outdated rom-com from the shady period before feminism got rolling, it’s much more than just a relic of a sexist time. The movie itself isn’t misogynistic– it’s about misogyny.

First, a little history: The 1964 Audrey Hepburn movie version of My Fair Lady is based on the Broadway musical (starring Julie Andrews) with songs written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The musical was based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play, Pygmalion, which was itself based on the part in Ovid’s Metamorphosis when a sculptor named Pygmalion falls in love with his statue of the perfect woman. That part of Metamorphosis was based on every guy who ever thought he could create the girl of his dreams (specifically, Freddie Prinze Jr. in She’s All That, of which Ovid was reportedly a mega-fan). Even studio execs are always trying to cultivate the perfect girl, and that led to a bit of behind-the-scenes drama when it came to casting Eliza Doolittle. Julie Andrews had played Eliza on Broadway, and had already mastered the character and the vocals, and her stage co-star Rex Harrison was going to play Higgins in the movie. But studio head Jack Warner didn’t think Julie Andrews had the name recognition or glamor to carry a major motion picture.

“With all her charm and ability, Julie Andrews was just a Broadway name known primarily to those who saw the play,” Jack Warner wrote in his 1965 autobiography My First Hundred Years in Hollywood. “I knew Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop.” But Andrews got the last word — losing the My Fair Lady role allowed her to make Mary Poppins, for which she won a Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Actress. Audrey herself was still pretty good, even if she had to have her songs dubbed by another singer. As TIME wrote after the movie came out in 1964: The burning question mark of this sumptuous adaptation is Audrey Hepburn’s casting as Eliza, the role that Julie Andrews had clearly been born to play….after a slow start, when the practiced proficiency of her cockney dialect suggests that Actress Hepburn is really only slumming, she warms her way into a graceful, glamorous performance, the best of her career. From Ancient Greece to Edwardian England to 1960s Hollywood, the narrative remains the same: an overbearing male “genius” who transforms a pliable (read: vulnerable) woman from her meager, inadequate self into his personal ideal of womanhood.

But thanks to Lerner and Loewe’s songs, My Fair Lady critiques that narrative as much as it upholds it. Their musical is not about a genius attempting to transform a weak woman. It’s about a strong woman attempting to retain her identity in spite of the controlling machinations of a small-minded man. Take, for example, the undisguised misogyny in nearly all of Henry Higgins’s songs (spoken, with droll irony, by Rex Harrison). This is from a song near the end, fittingly titled “ A Hymn to Him ,” in which Higgins asks “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”: Why is thinking something women never do? Why is logic never even tried? Straightening up their hair is all they ever do / Why don’t they straighten up the mess that’s inside? This comes shortly after he says women’s “heads are full of cotton, hay and rags” calls men a “marvelous sex.” That’s not the only song where he drones on about how amazing he is compared to women: in “You Did It,” he takes complete credit for everything Eliza does, and in “I’m an Ordinary Man,” he idealizes his woman-free “bachelor” life.

Now, it’s entirely possible that Lerner and Loewe were themselves misogynistic jerks, and these songs were meant as appreciative bro-anthems. Maybe if they had been alive today, the music videos would have featured naked models on leashes. But more likely, they wrote these songs to humiliate Henry Higgins, to show the audience that he’s a jerk and they know it. And Eliza Doolittle has plenty of songs that demonstrate she is anything but a statue; after all, the entire musical is written largely from her perspective. By far the best is “ Without You, ” which is pretty much the Edwardian-showtune version of Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable:” Without your pulling it, the tide comes in Without your twirling it, the Earth can spin Without your pushing them, the clouds roll by, If they can do without you, ducky, so can I. There’s also “Show Me” (where she tells her loser boyfriend Freddy that actions speak louder than words) and “Just You Wait” (where she fantasizes about leaving Henry Higgins for him to drown in the ocean while she goes to meet the King).

Lerner and Loewe could easily have made Eliza into a love-sick ingenue, just by writing a few more songs like “I Could Have Danced All Night” (where she’s crushing on Higgins because they danced for a hot second, remember it’s 1912.) But they didn’t. Of course, the whole Eliza-is-a-strong-woman argument gets compromised by the ending. Because after all her proclamations that she can “stand on her own,” Eliza comes back to Higgins. And when he asks “where the devil are my slippers?” she brings them to him. It’s an ending with the same ashy taste as the ending of Grease, because it seems incongruous: Eliza has no business being with Higgins, and it’s clear she’s independent-minded enough to know it. Except, it’s 1912. And Eliza has no family connections, no money and no formal education, which means she has nowhere to go but back to the streets (or away with the insipid and financially dubious Freddy). She isn’t brainwashed or stupid — when given the choice between an emotionally abusive man and destitution, she chose the man.

Choosing the man doesn’t make My Fair Lady a sexist movie; it makes it a movie about a sexist time. Of course, 50 years later, there’s another version of My Fair Lady: Selfie, on ABC, is the newest to take up the Pygmalion mantel, when a male marketing exec “rebrands” a girl who has fouled up her social media presence. Let’s see how they do it without Lerner and Loewe. Read TIME’s 1964 review of My Fair Lady, here in the archives: Still the Fairest of Them All Sign up for

Question: Which character was played by Audrey Hepburn in 'My Fair Lady'?
Answer: Eliza Doolittle