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.