My Fair Lady     • Released: 1964     • Length: 05:04     •
Plays: ??? Synopsis >  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 t