RunningTime : 173

TheatricalReleaseDate : 1964-12-25

ReleaseDate : 2004-02-03

Studio : Warner Home Video

Publisher : Warner Home Video

Format : AC-3/Anamorphic/Closed-captioned/Color/Dolby/DVD/Special Edition/Subtitled/Widescreen/NTSC

Director : George Cukor/Suzie Galler

Actor : Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison/Julie Andrews/Cecil Beaton/Theodore Bikel

Binding : DVD

Product Description
Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: NR
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD

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Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh