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Summary: A STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING FILM.
Review: Audrey Hepburn is MAGNIFICENT! What a great actress she was! Rex Harrison is perfect. The whole cast is wonderful, the sets and costumes are superb, the story(of course!)is brilliant, and the music is the best. And Marni Nixon sang Eliza's songs beautifully! One of the great musical films of all time.
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Summary: A Grate choise for any music lover.
Review: If there is anyone reading this that likes a good tune, this is the film for you. It's scene after scene of musical and theatrical excellence, From "Wouldn't It Be Lovely", to the very last note of "I Could Have Danced All Night", played at the close. It's not just the music that makes this film a worth watching work, though. Hepbern and Herison play their charactors masterfuly, (as do there co-stars) and make the story more beliveable and twice as enjoyable. Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higons, two, slightly strange people with strong opinions and stubborn wills, make a great team. I Found Eliza's father, all around amusing. I encourage you to try it, but, I might also suggest you rent it first, just to be safe.
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Summary: Great musical;Pretty good movie.
Review: Some who see the three-star rating I gave this film will probably turn red in the face with rage, but read me out. I do not like musicals. I seek realistic settings and believable characters performing realistic and believable acts while speaking genuine dialogue. Musicals, in my opinion, are cinematic escapism at its best; and I am not a fan of escapism. Using the previous little rant as preface, those of you who enjoy musicals can read my three-star rating as a five-star, since this film was far better than I had expected. I found myself amazed to be laughing at many of Rex Harrison's mannerisms and cunningly arrogant remarks. The costumes and songs were also quite memorable; I have actually caught myself humming a few of the numbers distractedly. Musical films are about style over substance, and My Fair Lady certainly has the style portion in spades. The real value comes from the substance in the film which, while certainly not as redeemable as many other non-musical films, will amuse even a staunch anti-musical person such as myself. Bottom line: If you like musicals, you will certainly love this movie; if you despise musicals, watch this film if for no other reason that to hear Harrison's relentless verbal assault upon Audrey Hepburn and all other "guttersnipes".
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Summary: Marvelous!
Review: Without any doubt one of the most charming musical ever. I only regreat the DVD sound quality. I own a laserDisc version and its quality is much better.
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Summary: Often drags, but don't let that stop you!
Review: This movie has great songs, delicious one-liners, and a wonderfully at-ease performance from Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins. (He ought to have been at ease. He played the role for two years on Broadway!) Stanley Holloway is wonderful, and gladys Cooper is good, too. Though Julie Andrews would have been good, Audrey Hepburn is charming, beautiful, and graceful, and is absolutly perfect once she loses the Cockney accent, which gets to be pretty annoying. (It's at its best when Marni Nixon dubs Audrey in the songs "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" and "Just You Wait".) These are reasons enough for seeing the movie, and don't let the news that it drags stop you. Yes, the begining gets to be a bit much, and there are plenty of scenes that could have been trimmed. But PLEASE DON"T LET THAT STOP YOU! It's well worth sitting through!
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Summary: Regal Rex Is At His Best
Review: what can I say but that I love this movie. The songs are great and I love the theme of how a bachelor begins to fall in love simply when the person is constanly around and is part of his life. Rex is at his best as the diction professor Henry Higgins and Audrey is charming. the songs are spectacular, (I love "Just you Wait..." with a blindfolded but still cocky, Rex facing the firing squad and even dying in a cocky manner!) as is the end. I love how Eliza slowly metamorphizes as does Higgins. Julie Andrews, Rex's broadway and later London co-star was set to play Eliza but was called away by Walt Disney for Mary Poppins. Rex actually got to see the play himself when he was on holiday and came back to see Edward Mulhare(often condsidered another Rex Harrison) as Higgins. Rex earned his Oscar!
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Summary: AUDREY TRIUMPHS AS ELIZA DOOLITTLE
Review: Thirty Five years later since it first hit the screens in the MOVIE theatres, I have to say I can still watch this movie again and again. Audrey will remain THE ELIZA DOOLITTLE for many generations to come. Sure she didn't sing ALL the songs--but the performance was not just the songs, the regal bearing, the whimsical look, the figure to look undernourished then delicate---no way was Julie Andrews near this image.
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Summary: 10 Stars is not enough!
Review: I have loved this movie ever since my high school put on the performance. I reccommend this to everyone.
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Summary: Superb Old Hollywood Production
Review: Nothing more can be added to what has been already said by the Braodway & film critics and the general public. To remake this film today would be very difficult from the standpoint of finding the right talent and experience for such a production. Hollywood is too much into the coarsening up of the culture and making political statements to bring such a refined flower to the screen. Making a sucessful screen adaptation of a Broadway musical is perhaps the most difficult thing to do in the movie business. Sadly film musical have not fared well with the public in the last 20-30 years. Hence, the studios are reluctant to make any new big-budget efforts. To the reviewer in Perth, Australia, Givenchy, my bloomin' a**. It was designer/photographer Cecil Beaton who did the costume designs for this film production.
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Summary: Simply fantastic! Nothing else to say!
Review: "My Fair Lady" is a great movie with a great cast. Mrs. Hepburn is simply wonderful - pay attention to the races scene - her acting is quite perfect - voice, eyes, expression - everything in such a harmony. WOW! A must is also the care in the restauration of the original movie (there is a documentary about it). Good job guys! I deeply recommend it ...
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