My Fair Lady

UPC: 097368719644

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: G   Contains:[Excellent For Children]

Summary: 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 irresistable," 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, Rovi

Category: Musical

Awards: Best Film - Any Source – British Academy of Film and Television Arts 100 Greatest American Movies – American Film Institute Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Director – null Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Costume Design – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Picture – New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Directors Guild of America

Features: cc
Audio commentary
Vintage featurettes, footage and audio
Alternate Audrey Hepburn vocals
Posters and lobby cards with Rex Harrison radio interview
Comments on a lady
Trailers

My Fair Lady

Format: DVD

Release Date: 10/06/2009

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 172 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Portuguese

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- My Fair Lady
1. Chapter 1 [3:30]
2. Chapter 2 [2:16]
3. Chapter 3 [4:05]
4. Chapter 4 [2:58]
5. Chapter 5 [1:37]
6. Chapter 6 [4:36]
7. Chapter 7 [5:03]
8. Chapter 8 [2:00]
9. Chapter 9 [6:27]
10. Chapter 10 [4:51]
11. Chapter 11 [2:15]
12. Chapter 12 [5:00]
13. Chapter 13 [5:56]
14. Chapter 14 [4:29]
15. Chapter 15 [4:19]
16. Chapter 16 [4:21]
17. Chapter 17 [2:21]
18. Chapter 18 [4:54]
19. Chapter 19 [1:33]
20. Chapter 20 [4:12]
21. Chapter 21 [4:05]
22. Chapter 22 [3:29]
23. Chapter 23 [1:37]
24. Chapter 24 [4:14]
25. Chapter 25 [2:27]
26. Chapter 26 [:58]
27. Chapter 27 [3:51]
28. Chapter 28 [2:24]
29. Chapter 29 [1:04]
30. Chapter 30 [:40]
31. Chapter 31 [1:13]
32. Chapter 32 [1:41]
33. Chapter 33 [2:01]
34. Chapter 34 [2:07]
35. Chapter 35 [3:52]
36. Chapter 36 [4:29]
37. Chapter 37 [1:40]
38. Chapter 38 [7:11]
39. Chapter 39 [1:30]
40. Chapter 40 [1:19]
41. Chapter 41 [3:07]
42. Chapter 42 [3:09]
44. Chapter 44 [6:03]
43. Chapter 43 [3:41]
45. Chapter 45 [2:11]
46. Chapter 46 [4:52]
47. Chapter 47 [2:42]
48. Chapter 48 [4:10]
49. Chapter 49 [4:51]
50. Chapter 50 [4:38]

Richard Gilliam

My Fair Lady is one of the screen's joyous achievements, an elegant musical filled with adult characters who think before they speak. Exquisitely produced by Warner Bros, it represents the zenith of the movie musical as an art form and as popular entertainment. Rex Harrison leads an impeccable cast, and, yes, that's Marni Nixon singing for Audrey Hepburn, but Hepburn is perfectly cast otherwise. The major star of the film is perhaps set designer/costume designer Cecil Beaton, whose visual contributions immediately impacted European and U.S. fashion trends. One of the best-looking movies ever made, My Fair Lady took eight Oscars, including Best Picture. Hepburn failed to be nominated in the Best Actress category, which was won by Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins, in what many observers saw as backlash against Andrews' not being cast in the movie after originating the role of Eliza on stage. ~ Richard Gilliam, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Henry Daniell  Actor 
Charles Fredericks  Actor 
Kendrick Huxham  Actor 
Laurie Main  Actor 
Pat O'Moore  Actor 
Wendy Russell  Actor 
Ben Wright  Actor 
Ayllene Gibbons  Actor 
Stanley Fraser  Actor 
Marjorie Bennett  Actor 
Natalie Core  Actor 
Martin Eric  Actor 
Queenie Leonard  Actor 
Alan Napier  Actor 
Dinah Anne Rogers  Actor 
Gwendolyn Watts  Actor 
James Wood  Actor 
Anne Dore  Actor 
Brendan Dillon  Actor 
Lillian Kemble-Cooper  Actor 
John McLiam  Actor 
George Pelling  Actor 
Geoffrey Steele  Actor 
Diana Bourbon  Actor 
Orville Sherman  Actor 
Eric Heath  Actor 
Frank Baker  Actor 
Harvey B. Dunn  Actor 
Colin Kenny  Actor 
John Mitchum  Actor 
Hilda Plowright  Actor 
William Taylor  Actor 
Nick Navarro  Actor 
Tom Cound  Actor 
Nick Wolcuff  Actor 
Betty Blythe  Actor 
Roy Dean  Actor 
Sam Harris  Actor 
Owen McGiveney  Actor 
Richard Peel  Actor 
Bill Shirley  Actor 
Ben Wrigley  Actor 
Sid Marion  Actor 
Jack Greening  Actor 
John Alderson  Actor 
Walter Burke  Actor 
Pauline Drake  Actor 
Monika Henreid  Actor 
Phyllis Kennedy  Actor 
Carol Merrill  Actor 
Barbara Pepper  Actor 
Grady Sutton  Actor 
Colin Campbell  Actor 
Paulle Clark  Actor 
James O'Hara  Actor 
William Beckley  Actor 
Robert Coote  Actor 
Isobel Elsom  Actor 
Alma Lawton  Actor 
Barbara Morrison  Actor 
Jack Raine  Actor 
Michael St. Clair  Actor 
Allyson Daniell  Actor 
Andrew Brown  Actor 
Oscar Beregi  Actor 
Maurice Dallimore  Actor 
Joe Evans  Actor 
Clyde Howdy  Actor 
Moyna MacGill  Actor 
Marni Nixon  Actor 
Victor Rogers  Actor 
Ron Whelan  Actor 
David Robel  Actor 
Raymond Foster  Actor 
George Cukor  Director 
Alan Jay Lerner  Screenwriter 
Frederick Loewe  Composer (Music Score) 
Andre Previn  Composer (Music Score) 
Jack L. Warner  Producer 
Herman Levin  Producer 
Audrey Hepburn  Actor 
Rex Harrison  Actor 
Stanley Holloway  Actor 
Wilfrid Hyde-White  Actor 
Gladys Cooper  Actor 
Jeremy Brett  Actor 
Theodore Bikel  Actor 
Mona Washbourne  Actor 
John Holland  Actor 

Country: USA