My Fair Lady (1964)
Movie Poster -
27" x
40" Canvas Print - Style A - plus 3"
border for mounting
Year: 1964
Condition: New
Dimension: 27" x 40"
Movie Poster Print Style A
High quality 27" x 40" reproduction, printed on satin finish paper.
Reproductions are almost identical in quality to original 1 sheet posters, and
are ideal for framing and display in your home theater.
Studios often issued many different styles of one sheets for the
same movie. They still do. To differentiate them they were often marked as
"Style A" or "Style B" etc.
Synopsis:
At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy
Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney
flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert Henry
Higgins (Rex Harrison). After delivering a musical tirade against "verbal class
distinction," Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering (Wilfred Hyde-White)
that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by
teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed,
Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, offering to pay him to teach her to
be a lady. "It's almost irresistible," clucks Higgins. "She's so deliciously
low. So horribly dirty." He turns his mission into a sporting proposition,
making a bet with Pickering that he can accomplish his six-month miracle to turn
Eliza into a lady. This is one of the all-time great movie musicals, featuring
classic songs and the legendary performances of Harrison, repeating his stage
role after Cary Grant wisely turned down the movie job, and Stanley Holloway as
Eliza's dustman father. Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza on Broadway
but producer Jack Warner felt that Andrews, at the time unknown beyond Broadway,
wasn't bankable; Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed
Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). Andrews instead made Mary Poppins, for
which she was given the Best Actress Oscar, beating out Hepburn. The movie,
however, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Harrison, and five
other Oscars, and it remains one of the all-time best movie musicals. Hal
Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison,
Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Jeremy
Brett, Robert Coote, Gladys Cooper; Directed by:
George Cukor
