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My Fair Lady Wouldn't It Be Loverly video song reviews from users:  Eliza Hepburn
My Fair Lady is the only Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe stage musical to have been filmed totally complete, with no omission of any songs from the stage version. The title of the film appears nowhere in the dialogue nor any of the song lyrics. Harrison was once later asked to identify his favorite leading lady. Without hesitation, he replied, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (1964). Audrey Doolittle
During the parts of "Wouldn't It be Loverly" featuring Audrey Hepburn's own singing voice, her lip-syncing does not match her own singing as well as it does Marni Nixon's singing, even though Hepburn filmed the scene with her own track. Rex Higgins
When Eliza Dolittle demands to see what Henry Higgins has been writing about her, in the beginning of the film, he shows her his notebook, which she cannot read. The notation in the notebook is "Visible Speech", a phonetic notation invented by Alexander Melville Bell. An entire sound stage was used for doing hair and makeup for the Ascot race scene. The story takes place in 1912. Henry Harrison
My Fair Lady is one of only 4 productions to win the Best Play Tony (1957) and the Best Picture Oscar (1964) with Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle, Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Hugh Pickering. At $17 million, this was the most expensive Warner Brothers film produced at the time. Nevertheless, it went on to become one of the biggest grossing films of 1964. |