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"Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle "
" VHS- 2hrs. 50min. First Viewing My Fair Lady is a bit overlong, but it's also one of the most fun movie musicals ever made (and this is coming from someone who is not a huge fan of the genre). The technical aspects are first rate, as well as the performances from Hepburn and Harrison."
“Some stories are surprisingly sturdy, they’re bulletproof entertainments built upon solid foundations and strong characters. George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion transmutes across genres into this Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady, one of the titans of musical theater. This 1964 film version is a crown jewel of director George Cukor’s consistently elegant and graceful body of work, and the film that finally nabbed him the Oscar. Even at three hours long, My Fair Lady is one breezy, fun piece of mainstream movie-making. Pity that so many can’t view the film for what it is and not for the film that wasn’t made. For many, My Fair Lady’s greatness is skewered to favor a decades old grudge that Julie Andrews was passed up in favor of movie star Audrey Hepburn, exc” read more