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My Fair Lady

Movie (1964)

Linguist Professor Henry Higgins bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering , that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in time for an important society ball. The spirited Eliza proves more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can't live without her.

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Released:	Dec 25th, 1964
Budget:	$17,000,000.00
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Audrey Hepburn
plays Eliza Doolittle

Rex Harrison
plays Professor Henry Higgins

Stanley Holloway
plays Alfred P. Doolittle

Wilfrid Hyde-White
plays Colonel Hugh Pickering

Gladys Cooper
plays Mrs. Higgins

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Walt Disney offered to delay filming on Mary Poppins until the summer of 1964 if Julie Andrews was cast as Eliza.
Jack L. Warner considered this film one of his finest achievements.
Julie Andrews was the first choice for the role of Eliza Doolittle, but Warner Brothers, which had paid $5 million for the rights to the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical, didn't want to risk a stage actress in the central role of a $17-million film, despite lobbying from Lerner himself. However, this reason has been strongly doubted by those who believe audiences would have flocked to see the film regardless of who played the leading role. It is also reported that Jack L. Warner didn't think Andrews would be photogenic enough. He invited her to do a screen test, but she refused, so he forgot about her altogether.
The film was to have been called "Lady Liza", but Rex Harrison refused to countenance a title based on the name of the female lead.

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