My Fair Lady (1964)
Movie Poster
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43"
x 62" Canvas Print - Museum Wrapped Style B
Year: 1964
Condition: New
Dimension: 43" x 62"
Movie Poster Print Style B
High quality 43" x 62" 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
