History of My Fair Lady

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Film version of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion?, directed by George Cukor. An arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics finds an impoverished young woman selling flowers and boasts to a newly met companion, also a professor of phonetics, that he could train her to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess. The woman finds the professor's house and offers to pay the professor to hold to his word so that she could get a better job. Stars [Audrey Hepburn]? and [Rex Harrison]?; the film ranked #91 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies.

My Fair Lady is a musical play by Lerner and Loewe, later made into a film directed by George Cukor, of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion?. An arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics finds an impoverished young woman selling flowers and boasts to a newly met companion, also a professor of phonetics, that he could train her to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess. The woman finds the professor's house and offers to pay the professor to hold to his word so that she could get a better job. Stars [Audrey Hepburn]? and [Rex Harrison]?; the film ranked #91 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies.