“My Fair Lady” is a wonderful film adaptation of a long-running Broadway musical. The movie stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolitle, a poor flower girl from London in 1913 who wants speech lessons and Rex Harrison as Prof. Henry Higgins, her instructor. The film features many great songs, which are also featured in the play, including “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”, “I Could Have Danced All Night”, and “On the Street Where You Live”.
Henry Higgins is a very arrogant professor of phonetics who bets his colleague Colonel Pickering that he can teach Eliza Doolitle, a peasant girl they encounter on the street selling flowers, to speak so well that she can pass as royalty. Eliza wants very badly to learn to speak better, so she offers Prof. Higgins a shilling for lessons and he accepts. He is very forceful with her in his methods. Although things look hopeless for Eliza at first, eventually she succeeds in speaking beautiful English. Prof. Higgins and Col. Pickering are delighted.
The next day, they decide to test her out by buying her a new outfit and taking her to the Ascot Racecourse. She speaks very eloquently but retains her lower class manners, much to everyone’s dismay. Nevertheless, she manages to win the heart of a young man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill.
Despite her disaster, Prof. Higgins still wishes to make good on his bet, so he takes Eliza to the Embassy Ball, where she makes a very good impression on everyone. A Hungarian speech expert is present who at first believes her to be a fraud and tries to expose her, but later becomes convinced that she’s Hungarian herself and of royal blood. Thus, Higgins wins his bet with Col. Pickering. However, once Eliza realizes that this was all he cared about, she feels terribly betrayed, so she leaves him.
In the end, Prof. Higgins finds himself falling for her. Though Eliza had threatened to marry Freddy at first, she eventually decides to return to Prof. Higgins.
My Fair Lady – Dave’s Top Movies
Author: David Terr
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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