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With: Rex Harrison
Directed by: George Cukor
The Story: Some gentlemen bet they could not pass a common cockney flower girl as a lady.
Tinkers Review: Great musical. A bit too long, but I loved the horse race scene.
6 out of 10
A review by Jacinta
“My Fair Lady” is my favourite of the Audrey Hepburn films I have seen. Audrey does an absolutely superb job in it. The story is based on George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Pygmalion”, and is a musical. Audrey plays Eliza Doolittle, a poor cockney flower girl in London, who wants to learn how to speak and act like a lady. She hears Henry Higgins, a man who is very skilled in languages, declare that he could teach her to speak and act properly. She goes to him, asking him to train her. Henry and another gentleman, Colonel Pickering, have a bet that Henry can train Eliza and turn her into a perfect young lady in six months. So begins Eliza’s lifting of class from the slums to the very highest circles of London high society. Henry is very tough on Eliza and she finds it very hard to learn. Eventually, after a few failures, Eliza is ready for the great test. They take her to a rich grand ball where a Queen of another country is attending. They pronounce her a beautiful and gifted young woman, and think she is a foreign princess. After all this success, Henry and Colonel Pickering do not even thank or praise Eliza for her hard work, and think that it is Henry’s victory, not hers. She is very upset, but eventually she forgives Henry and comes back to him. Although Henry had previously hated women, he finds he cannot live without Eliza, he has grown so used to her being with him.
This movie has some wonderful music, and Audrey’s cockney accent is wonderful. She is looking beautiful, as always, and has some very memorable lines. This is one I can watch again and again and never get tired of.
I give it a 8 out of 10 rating.