Additional information for My Fair Lady, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 25, 1964. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. My Fair Lady has a total running time of 170 minutes.
L
Iceland
G
USA
All
South Korea
Livre
Brazil
PG
Canada
G
New Zealand
Atp
Argentina
G
Australia
TE
Chile
S
Finland
Btl
Sweden
U
UK
12
West Germany
170min
"Minha Bela Dama" - Brazil
"Minha Linda Lady" - Portugal
"My Fair Lady" - Poland
"My Fair Lady" - Denmark
"My Fair Lady" - Finland
"My Fair Lady" - Spain
"My Fair Lady" - Hungary
"Oraia mou kyria" - Greece
October 21, 1964
USA
October 28, 1964
USA
December 09, 1964
Australia
December 23, 1964
France
December 23, 1964
Italy
December 23, 1964
Spain
December 23, 1964
West Germany
December 25, 1964
Finland
December 25, 1964
USA
December 26, 1964
Denmark
December 26, 1964
Japan
December 27, 1964
Sweden
January 21, 1965
UK
April 22, 1965
Hong Kong
July 28, 1965
Australia
October , 1968
Turkey
June 03, 1977
Finland
September 23, 1994
USA
February 23, 1995
Australia
December 30, 2000
Japan
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A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics, boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess. The person whom he is shown thus teaching is one Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), a young woman with a horrendous Cockney accent who is selling flowers on the street. After overhearing this, Eliza finds her way to the professor's house and offers to pay for speech lessons, so that she can work in a flower shop. Pickering is intrigued and wagers that Higgins cannot back up his claim; Higgins takes Eliza on free of charge as a challenge to his skills.Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, arrives three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's genuineness, natural gift for language and especially his brazen lack of morals (Doolittle explains, "Can't afford 'em!").Eliza goes through many forms of speech training, such as speaking with marbles in her mouth and trying to recite the sentence "In Hertford, Hereford, Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen" without dropping the 'h', and to say "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" rather than "The rine in spine sties minely in the pline". At first, she makes no progress (due to Higgins's harsh approach to teaching), but just as she, Higgins, and Pickering are exhausted and about to give up, Higgins softens his attitude and gives an eloquent speech about the beauty and history behind the English language. Eliza tries one more time and finally "gets it"; she instantly begins to speak with an impeccable upper class accent.Higgins takes her on her first public appearance to Ascot Racecourse, where she makes a good impression with her stilted, but genteel manners, only to shock everyone by a sudden and vulgar lapse into Cockney; "C'mon Dover, move your bloomin' arse!". Higgins, who dislikes the pretentiousness of the upper class, partly conceals a grin behind his hand, as if to say "I wish I had said that!"The bet is won when Eliza successfully poses as a mysterious lady of patently noble rank at an embassy ball, despite the unexpected presence of a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. Higgins's callous treatment of Eliza afterwards, especially his indifference to her future prospects, leads her to walk out on him, leaving him mystified by her ingratitude. When she is gone however, he comes to the horrified realization that he has "grown accustomed to her face." Putting aside his resentment about the intrusion on his life and toward women in general, Higgins finds Eliza the next day and attempts to talk her into coming back to him. During a testy exchange, Higgins's ego gets the better of him, and his former student rejects him.Higgins makes his way home, stubbornly predicting that Eliza will be ruined without him and come crawling back. However, his bravado collapses and he is reduced to playing old phonograph recordings of her voice lessons. To Higgins' great delight, Eliza chooses that moment to return to him.
George Cukor
Director(s)
Alan Jay Lerner
George Bernard Shaw
Alan Jay Lerner
Writer(s)
James C. Katz
producer (1994 restoration)
Jack L. Warner
producer
Producer(s)
André Previn
Composer(s)
Eliza Doolittle
Audrey Hepburn
Professor Henry Higgins
Rex Harrison
Alfred P. Doolittle
Stanley Holloway
Colonel Hugh Pickering
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Mrs. Higgins
Gladys Cooper
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Jeremy Brett
Zoltan Karpathy
Theodore Bikel
Mrs. Pearce
Mona Washbourne
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Isobel Elsom
Butler
John Holland
Cockney (uncredited)
Elizabeth Aimers
Ascot Extra (uncredited)
Helen Albrecht
Jamie (uncredited)
John Alderson
Cockney (uncredited)
Mary Alexander
Ad Lib at Church (uncredited)
LaWana Backer
Elegant Bystander (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Second Maid (uncredited)
Lois Battle
Daughter of Elegant Bystander (uncredited)
Brittania Beatey
Footman (uncredited)
William Beckley
Cockney with Pipe (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
Greek Ambassador (uncredited)
Oscar Beregi Jr.
Lady at Ball (uncredited)
Betty Blythe
Ascot Extra (uncredited)
Diana Bourbon
Flower Girl (uncredited)
Iris Bristol
Toff (uncredited)
Sue Bronson
Ad Lib at Church (uncredited)
Meg Brown
Prince of Transylvania (uncredited)
Buddy Bryant
Bystander Who Warns Eliza (uncredited)
Walter Burke
Cockney (uncredited)
Bea Marie Busch
Ascot Gavotte (uncredited)
Colin Campbell
Ad Lib at Church (uncredited)
Jeannie Carson
Ad Lib at Ascot (uncredited)
Paulle Clark
Ascot Extra (uncredited)
Natalie Core
Footman (uncredited)
Tom Cound
Mrs. Higgins' Maid (uncredited)
Jennifer Crier
Selsey Man (uncredited)
Maurice Dallimore
Ad Lib at Ascot (uncredited)
Allison Daniell
Ambassador (uncredited)
Henry Daniell
Cockney (uncredited)
Donna Day
Footman (uncredited)
Roy Dean
Director(s)
George Bernard Shaw
Alan Jay Lerner
Writer(s)
producer (1994 restoration)
Jack L. Warner
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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