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Summary: "Wouldn't It Be Lovely"
Review: My Fair Lady is one of the greatest film musicals of all time. Audrey Hepburn lights up the silver screen in a somewhat different way. She starts out not being the elegant film goddess that we are used to seeing in her previous films. Rex Harrison plays another stuffy Englishman, as usual. The music and the cinematography is really good. It deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture. This film is a musical that tends to make people laugh more than the others do. It is nice to have a few good laughs in films that are lead up to be boring and pointless, even though they are not. I highly reccomend this film for anyone and everyone.A Must See
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Summary: "Wouldn't it be loverly..."
Review: This is possibly one of the best musicals of all time (at any rate, definately one of my personal favorites). The songs are superb. Some, like "I Could Have Danced all Night" and "On the Street Where You Live" are romantic and sweet; many, like "Show Me," "Just You Wait," "A Little Bit of Luck," "Without You," and "Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man?" are quite amusing. A few of the latter catagory are nowhere near politically correct, but somehow that makes it all the more hilarious.My only complaint would have to be that I wish they'd used Julie Andrews as Eliza Dolittle. I heard her sing some of the songs from "My Fair Lady" once and her Cockney was much more believable than that of Audrey Hepburn, or Marni Nixon (who sang for Hepburn).
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Summary: Rags to riches in an hour and a half!
Review: This is one of the great musicals you only hear about and dream about!! Well this one you can have and watch, it can become all your own!! I highly recoment buying this movie don't bother renting it first to test it out!! It's awesome!! Trust me you will completely love it, and watch it multiply times!!
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Summary: By George! they did it.
Review: The restoration of this popular movie and it's placement on DVD is absolutly astounding. Watch the movie first and then watch it again with the directors commentary and all will be explained. The sheer sharpness of the colour and sets are still relevant today as they were 40 years ago... Of course Audrey Hepburn's Eliza verses Rex Harrison's Higgins is what this movie's all about.
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Summary: A Delight!
Review: I have seen my Fair Lady on classic movie channels and I even taped it from AMC only to be disappointed when I found out they aired the pan and scan version and not the widescreen version so I'm definitely thinking of someday buying this movie on a widescreen DVD! I missed the beginning of the movie but saw the rest of it and it was very entertaining and the cast was wonderful, especially Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. Yes Audrey Hepburn had her singing done by someone else but she did such a great job with the acting that it just doesn't really matter and as much as I like Julie Andrews who played Eliza on Broadway I can't imagine anyone playing Eliza in this movie other then Audrey Hepburn and I think the Cockney accent she used for the character was great! I highly recommend this movie and I will have to think about buying it on DVD.
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Summary: By george,Warner Bros has got it better on DVD!!!
Review: This two-disc edition of the excellent 1964 Best Picture winner MY FAIR LADY is out finally in the ultimate DVD release jammed-packed with a chockful of extras that will keep you entertained for hours!! This is a HUGE improvement from the 1998 DVD release with hardly any extras,only commentary,and trailers.The first disc contains the entire 173-minute feature in a beautiful,high-definition transfer taken directly from the 1994 restoration print in its glorious 70mm Super Panavision format (2.20:1),but also has an excellent audio commentary by the film's art director Gene Allen,Audrey Hepburn's singing dub Marni Nixon,and the film's restorationists Robert A.Harris and James C.Katz which originally appeared in the previous '98 release.The second disc is mostly bonus features such as the outstanding 1994 documentary "More Loverly Than Ever" (originally a part of the 30th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set,which is now out of print) which promoted the film's 30th Anniversary rerelease about the making of the film and also the restoration which took nearly two years to complete and is hosted by non-other than the film's co-star and TV's Sherlock Holmes,Jeremy Brett.Also included here are rare production featurettes such as the featurette "The Fairest Fair Lady",The 1963 Production Kickoff dinner,1964 LA Premiere,Oscar ceremonies,and much,much more!!! I highly recommend this DVD for any fan of great musicals and is perhaps THE BEST 'special edition' release in recent years!!! Three cheers to Warner Bros and CBS!!!!
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Summary: Christmas Comes Again
Review: I am wild about this new DVD treatment of My Fair Lady.
It holds all the behind the scene gems for any movie fan.
I love the fact that they have also included the pink background
drawing that I remember from my childhood when I nearly wore
out the needle on my phonograph from playing the soundtrack
over and over.
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Summary: The Fair Lady IS still loverly at 40!
Review: This special edition of the 1964 Oscar winner, MY FAIR LADY us worth every penny! A great film deserves to be made into a special edition DVD like this classic! The extras include that wonderful documentary about the restoration of this classic! Warner Bros Home Video went all out for this one! Kudos to them! I STRONGLY RECCOMEND THIS SPECIAL EDITION TO ALL MY FAIR LADY/AUDREY HEPBURN FANS OUT THERE!
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Summary: First Date
Review: My Fair Lady, Rex and Audrey et. al. was the scene of my first date. Gal would later become Miss P___. The DVD is clear full widescreen and has the extra two Audrey sung "Loverly" and "Rain." Growing up I had Original London Cast with Julie Andrews, and this will always be the 'Real Thing' for me. Years later, I can appreciate the movie for all its intensity to capture the stage version. For me, It will always have faint echoes and as well as the ambiguity of Shaw's drama and its classical origins in myth. Hi Leslie!
DVD should contain words to music as the original 33.3 record contained. But then, who remembers to follow the bouncing ball or Mitch Miller? Like good drama, good lyrics find print
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Summary: IT DOESN'T GET MORE "LOVERLY" THAN THIS!
Review: By the time "My Fair Lady" made it to the big screen, going to see the movie wasn't so much a night's entertainment as it became a near religeous experience. Jack L. Warner wanted Cary Grant as Prof. Henry Higgins but Grant declined, giving the studio boss no choice but to cast Rex Harrison in the lead - an inspired choice since Rex had already made the part his own on Broadway. The unfortunate oversight is that Jack Warner couldn't see Julie Andrews true potential beneath her common frumpery of the cockney flower girl. So in stepped Audrey Hepburn - delightful, charming, outstanding...alas, she couldn't sing! Her vocals - dubbed by Marni Nixon, became the subject of controversy that cost Audrey her Best Actress Oscar nomination. That went to Julie Andrews for "Mary Poppins". So did the win!
The plot: Two stuffy academics decide to overhaul a flower girl into a grand duchess. With a little bit of luck and a lot of comical training the job gets done and the result is a truly charming story elevated by exceptional production values and a thoroughly engaging musical score!
TRANSFER: OUTSTANDING!!! Colors are rich, vibrant and solid. Black and contrast levels are perfect. There are NO age related artifacts and NO digital anomalies for a picture that is, quite simply - PERFECT. The audio has been remixed to 5.1 and is brilliant, robust and thoroughly engaging for a film of this vintage.
EXTRAS: By george, I think they've got it! The original 1994 documentary which illustrates the film's near destruction and its breathtaking restoration is included for the first time on DVD, as well as a host of other extras including an audio commentary, multiple featurettes, snippets from the Oscar cerimony, theatrical trailers, a stills gallery and some commentaries by noted film makers and historians. Outstanding!!!
BOTTOM LINE: It isn't often that I can make the argument that nothing more could be asked for or expected of a classic movie's treatment on DVD. "My Fair Lady" is one of those 2 disc miracles of 'loverlieness' that has been timelessly and completely realized for the home theater film buff!
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