My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama film adapted from Lerner and Loewe's 1956 stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Ler
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold original illustration by Bob Peak
Cinematographer Harry Stradling and Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle on set of the film
A publicity still of Hepburn wearing a costume designed by Cecil Beaton for the film
Eliza Doolittle by George Luks 1908
Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play F
My Fair Lady (film)
…from Eliza's viewpoint) secure employment in a flower store. It stars Audrey Hepburn as Doolittle, replacing Julie Andrews from the stage musical, and Rex Harrison as Higgins, reprising his role from the stage, with Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper and Wilfrid Hyde-White in supporting roles. A critical and commercial…
Harrison at his home in London in 1976
The Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool where Harrison made his stage debut in 1924
Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins alongside Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady
Harrison as Julius Caesar in Cleopatra (1963) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award