My Fair Lady

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Summary: A Very Beautiful Movie
Review: Audrey Hepburn performance in this movie is fantastic and the music is even better.... I love it more each time I watch it. The clothes, the music, the people, everything is just right. I highly recommend this if you love musicals. This is my favorite of all.

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Summary: Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison shine
Review: G.B. Shaw's Pgymalion was the inspiration for this magnificient adaptation. Lerner's words were poetic and lyrical and in Henry Higgins case, very satirical. Loew's music was just right, never overshadowing the verse. Subtle might be a good word. Mr. Harrison and Miss Hepburn bring livliness and fun to their characters and Stanley Holloway's turn as Eliza's father purely brilliant. I also liked Gladys Cooper as Henry's mother. If I have one favorite part it has to be the Ascot races where Eliza's exurberance gets the best of her but at the end she is more than a match for Professor Higgins and watching her transformation is great fun. All in all, a great film. Too bad, musicals have been little made in recent years and we are subjected to too much sex,blood and gore. Whenever I want to return to a time when Hollywood honored wit and charm, I put on My Fair Lady.

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Summary: Grrrrrrrrrrrrreat!
Review: This is a wonderful movie, filled with wonderful characters, wit, humor, actors and actresses, and infinitely wonderful songs. This movie has enchanted me, making me long to see it.

This is the story of a "street rat" or, as Dr. Higgins(Rex Harrison) calls her, a "guttersnipe", Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who takes up Dr. Higgins's offer to teach her to speak. He bets he could pass her off as a dutchess at the queens ball. And so goes "My Fair Lady", with memorable songs, "Wouldn't it be Loverly", "Show Me", Why Can't a Woman be More LIke a Man", and many more.

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Summary: Outstanding Restored Version w/ Spectacular Picture & Sound
Review: If you are reading this review I am going to assume you already are a fan of this musical. Audrey Hepburn Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway are unforgettable. If you have somehow missed the film this is a musical even people who don't like musicals will be won over by. I had not seen the film for many years but I have been buying and playing a lot of DVDs as I purchased a projector this year. My Fair Lady is one of the truly great experiences I have had with the DVD. If you are trying to select DVDs that excel in both picture and sound and supplemental features you should include this film in your collection. This DVD version of My Fair Lady is far and away the best ever released. It has been painstakingly and lovingly restored to near perfection. The supplemental commentaries on the disc are fascinating and discuss the restoration process at length. This is one commentary where I really felt educated about cinematography specialized techniques. Having seen this film I watched David Lean's restored version of Lawrence of Arabia and I could really tell they didn't put as much into the restoration as this film. I am no expert but felt like one after listening to the supplemental materials. The picture in my room is ten feet diagonal so I can really see flaws. This disc is near perfection. The colors are rich and vibrant and show the subtle details of all the costumes. Particular attention was made to not lose the details in the blacks and bright whites of the costumes. I am frequently a little disappointed with the Surround Sound on many films but this fills the room with lush magnificent sound that is just spectacular. If you want a disc that shows off both your sound and video system this is gold. Especially if you want to have something to play your parents will enjoy as most of the really good films to show off are in the sci fi genre. The real reason to buy this disc is it is fabulous entertainment. But for picture and sound you may never own, or own only a few discs that were transfered with such care.

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Summary: SMASHING, SIMPLY SMASHING!
Review: What can I say? This is not only a great story and a great musical. Wide screen in DVD makes it about as good as you can get, other than seeing it done on the stage - which I have had the good fortune to do twice. A must have for any collection.

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Summary: Anybody who gives this movie less than 5 stars is foolish!
Review: This movie is outstanding in every way. The acting, the music, the costumes, the sets, I could go on and on. The movie is far more than just decent and anyone who can't see that would have to be somewhat of a fool! Even though Julie Andrews had already played Eliza on Broadway (and may have seemed more suited for the role in the movie ) Audrey Hepburn does a very good job and adds incomparable charm to the role in one of her best performances. I have also heard that Audrey could sing quite well but that her voice was not what they wanted for the film and she was dubbed. The music is wonderful too and I love the romantic story. If you have not seen it yet you definitely should!

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Summary: A BRITISH MUSICAL
Review: As successful as it was,MY FAIR LADY was never in the CAROUSEL-KISS ME KATE category of great musicals.This film had fine production values;the casting was good;the dialogue gets often annoying and detracts from the songs who come too far in between.Along with THE SOUND OF MUSIC,it signaled the end of an era of decent musicals.This film is actually like a big balloon that never seems to get to the ground.Still, there are delightful moments that keeps it from sinking and makes it worth seeing;my favorite is the scene that has ELIZA swear in the company of society fashion.AUDREY we miss you and nobody really took the place you filled so well between 1952 and 1967.

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Summary: Great Film
Review: Harrison is excellent, so is Hepburn. Fun for all. The only thing that really upsets me is they should have used Julie Andrews since she did it on the stage(Not knocking Hepburns performance). Also Hepburn did not sing anything, all her singing was dubbed by someone else. Julie would have sung them all herself. That said, the movie still is a joy!

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Summary: BREATHTAKING!
Review: One of the best movies of the sixties. You must see this movie on DVD! BUY IT NOW!

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Summary: Audrey should not have been dubbed
Review: This film has so much potential, the casting of the lovely Audrey Hepburn for one but somehow the magic is missing. There was, as is well known, a serious backlash against the casting of Audrey from all those that wanted to see Julie Andrews play the role that she had so successfully played on stage. The powers that be decided that they wanted to cast a 'star' in the role of Eliza and at that time Julie was relatively unknown. Having given the part to Audrey you would have thought that they would have done their best to capture all that lovely Hepburn magic that had made all of Audrey's previous films such a joy but, in their wisdom, they made the decision to dub Audrey's singing voice with that of the more experienced Marni Nixon. Audrey was not the best singer in the world it's true but, in my opinion, the sight of her singing with her own voice and emotions would have been much preferable to seeing her mime to the more polished soprano voice of Marni - sometimes emotion is better than mere technique. To restore Audrey's voice to the soundtrack at this late stage is almost adding insult to injury and the knowledge that the studio always knew that they were going to dub Audrey but didn't tell her until she had practically exhausted herself trying to improve is unforgivable. In many other ways this film is delightful, Rex Harrison is very good as Prof Higgins (but you would hardly call him a good singer!) and all of the supporting cast are excellent. The Ascot scene alone is wonderful although perhaps Cecil Beaton's costumes are a little over the top - Givenchy would have been more understatedly elegant I think. Audrey did her best, under what was probably extremely trying circumstances, and she was charming as both the flower girl and the more refined 'lady' but it's hard to love this film if you're an Audrey fan - not only was she shamefully treated about the singing but she was pointedly omitted from the Oscar nominations and probably had to answer questions about the dubbed singing for many years to come. A much preferable film is Funny Face, in which Audrey get's to sing and dance with Fred Astaire - it's charming and Audrey's singing voice is 'luvverley'.