My Fair Lady

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During the parts of "Wouldn't It be Loverly" featuring Audrey Hepburn's own singing voice, her lip-s [...]	D
Stanley Holloway originated the role of Alfred P. Doolittle on Broadway, but it was thought that a b [...]	D
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner had originally wanted their musical to be titled "Fanfaroon".	D
The butler's solo line in the final servants' chorus of "You Did It" was dubbed by Bill Lee.	D
The order of the songs in the show was followed faithfully, except for "With a Little Bit of Luck." [...]	D
Thanks to director George Cukor's efficiency, shooting was completed in less than four months. Shoot [...]	D
Playwright George Bernard Shaw adamantly opposed any notion that Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza D [...]	D
When Sir Rex Harrison had problems performing his final song, "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face", o [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the Top 100 America's Greatest Love Story [...]	D
The instrumental "Busker Sequence," which opens the play immediately after the Overture, is the only [...]	D
Jeremy Brett (Freddy Eynsford-Hill) admitted in 1994 that his singing in this movie was dubbed by Bi [...]	D
One of only four productions to win the Best Play Tony (1956) and the Best Picture Oscar (1964). The [...]	D
The role of Eliza Doolittle was originally played on Broadway by Dame Julie Andrews. However, she wa [...]	D
Was selected for preservation, in National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2018, for bei [...]	D
Joshua Logan wrote in his autobiography that he was offered the chance to direct this movie, but the [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of the top 100 America's Greatest Music in th [...]	D
According to the "The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw" book, Rock Hudson was considered f [...]	D
After the "Just You Wait" song has ended and Professor Higgins has fallen on the carpet, a kissing D [...]	D
The film was screened as the 1964 Royal Film Performance,No it wasn't. The1964 Royal Film performanc [...]	D
Although most of the art direction and costume designing credit went to Cecil Beaton, art director G [...]	D
Although Sir Rex Harrison was desperate to be cast as Professor Henry Higgins, he refused to do a sc [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
The movie was advertised as the most eagerly anticipated production since Via col vento (1939).	D
The entire Ascot Gavotte sequence was shot with all of the characters dressed in shades of black, wh [...]	D
U.S. television viewers had something of a Sir Rex Harrison film-fest on Thanksgiving week in 1973. [...]	D
Most of Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, despite Hepburn's lengthy vocal preparat [...]	D
Henry Daniell shot his last scene as the Ambassador on October 31, 1963, at Warner Brothers, escorti [...]	D
Final film of Moyna MacGill and Lillian Kemble-Cooper.	D
Dame Julie Andrews got her revenge on producer Jack L. Warner three years later when she wasn't cast [...]	D
Although playing a 21-year-old, Audrey Hepburn was actually 35 in real life. Jeremy Brett (who turne [...]	D
Sir Rex Harrison had given up smoking after suffering from pains in his legs. He did not like the fa [...]	D
Professor Higgins has a box with four mirrors that spins on his desk. The same mirror type trick is [...]	D
Audrey Hepburn's character's name is Eliza Doolittle. Three years after this movie came out, Sir Rex [...]	D
Shirley MacLaine wanted the role of Eliza Doolittle.	D
An entire soundstage was used for doing hair and make-up for the Ascot race scene.	D
Audrey Hepburn revealed many years later that had she turned down the role of Eliza, the next actres [...]	D
This was Warner Brothers' first Best Picture Oscar winner since Casablanca (1942). It would be anoth [...]	D
Of the main cast, only Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle) actually sang. The others were either [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
This movie is the only Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe stage musical to have been filmed totally [...]	D
Robert Coote was nominated for the 1962 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actor [...]	D
Cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr., who shot this movie, also shot Pigmalione (1938). Both films ar [...]	D
The suggestion that Nancy Olsen inspired Alan Jay Lerner to come up with "I've Grown Accustomed To H [...]	D
American Marni Nixon had to practice a Cockney accent before she could dub all of Audrey Hepburn's s [...]	D
Musical theater writers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had attempted to adapt George Berna [...]	D
When Sir Rex Harrison accepted his Academy Award for this movie, he dedicated it to his "two fair la [...]	D
The play first had been staged on Broadway in March 1956 and opened in London in 1958. A clause in t [...]	D
The 1994 restoration by Robert A. Harris used a variety of methods to return the film to its origina [...]	D
Although her singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, Audrey Hepburn's singing does actually appear in the [...]	D
Sir Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins) was very disappointed when Audrey Hepburn was cast as Eli [...]	D
In 2011, Eliza Doolittle's black-and-white royal ascot costume sold at auction for $4.5 million.	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies, at # [...]	D
Included amongst the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the five hundred movies nominated for th [...]	D
Amusement park trams were rented to carry ballroom scene extras across the studio lot, in order to p [...]	D
Gladys Cooper reprised her role as Mrs. Higgins in Pygmalion (1963).	D
Because of the way Sir Rex Harrison talked his way through the musical numbers, they were unable to [...]	D
Audrey Hepburn's failure to win an Oscar nomination was considered a major upset, triggering protest [...]	D
According to one of Sir Rex Harrison's biographers, Alexander Walker, the song "I've Grown Accustome [...]	D
Cecil Beaton's inspiration for the library in Professor Henry Higgins' home, where much of the actio [...]	D
Most roadshow movie presentations made at that time had an overture recorded especially for the movi [...]	D
James Cagney was originally offered the role of Alfred P. Doolittle. When he pulled out at the last [...]	D
I Griffin (1999) creator Seth MacFarlane said on multiple occasions that the voice of Stewie was bas [...]	D
This movie is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
Alan Jay Lerner was very annoyed by producer Jack L. Warner's decision to have the entire movie film [...]	D
For the 30th anniversary re-release in 1994, this movie was painstakingly restored by Robert A. Harr [...]	D
In truth, ten percent of Eliza Doolittle's singing in this movie is Audrey Hepburn. She sings and ta [...]	D
Dame Julie Andrews was the first choice for the role of Eliza Doolittle, but Warner Brothers, which [...]	D
The opera that was playing the night Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) and Eliza Doolittle [...]	D
Director George Cukor and production designer Cecil Beaton, who were good friends beforehand, had a [...]	D
The story takes place in 1912, although other sources place it earlier. The King in the fantasy sequ [...]	D
Walt Disney offered to delay filming on Mary Poppins (1964) until the summer of 1964 if Dame Julie A [...]	D
The title is derived from a line in a traditional rhyme: 'London Bridge is falling down, my fair lad [...]	D
When asked why he turned down the role of Professor Henry Higgins, Cary Grant remarked that his orig [...]	D
Cary Grant told producer Jack L. Warner that not only would he not play Professor Henry Higgins, but [...]	D
After screening the rough cut, producer Jack L. Warner, who had not wanted to cast Sir Rex Harrison, [...]	D
In her 2004 autobiography "Tis Herself," Maureen O'Hara claimed that producer Jack L. Warner asked h [...]	D
During lunch breaks, Cecil Beaton would sneak onto the soundstage set being filmed, set up an easel [...]	D
Favorite movie of Rosalind Chao and Kim Basinger.	D
Audrey Hepburn apparently believed that Dame Julie Andrews should have played Eliza Doolittle in thi [...]	D
While the movie received generally favorable reviews, critics were divided on Audrey Hepburn's perfo [...]	D
Many of the Ascot Gavotte fashionable ladies of the chorus also were barmaids and pub customers in t [...]	D
When director George Cukor asked to do expensive retakes of the Ascot sequence, Warner Brothers refu [...]	D
Audrey Hepburn announced the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the devastated cast and crew on Nov [...]	D
Ascot is traditionally held in the latter part of June and is at the height of the "Summer Season" o [...]	D
Jeremy Brett, who celebrated his 30th birthday during filming, was very surprised to learn that all [...]	D
Marlene Morrow's debut.	D
When Audrey Hepburn entered the set for the first time in Eliza's gown for the ball, she was so beau [...]	D
When Eliza is practicing her "H's" she sits down in front of a spinning mirror attached to a flame. [...]	D
When Eliza Doolittle demands to see what Professor Henry Higgins has been writing about her, in the [...]	D
Features Stanley Holloway's only Oscar-nominated performance.	D
Producer Jack L. Warner originally didn't want Sir Rex Harrison to reprise his stage role as Profess [...]	D
One of ten American musicals to win Best Picture: 1) La canzone di Broadway (1929), 2) Il paradiso d [...]	D
Theodore Bikel was a late replacement for Max Adrian in the role of Zoltan Karpathy.	D
Average Shot Length = 10 seconds	D
Unlike many film productions which don't strive for structural integrity, everything about the set f [...]	D
Connie Stevens, then a Warner Brothers contract player, campaigned for the role of Eliza Doolittle.	D
Sir Rex Harrison's microphone (hidden in his neckties) would occasionally pick up police broadcasts [...]	D
Julie Andrews and the Broadway ensemble performed the number "Wouldn't It Be Luverly" live before an [...]	D
Audrey Hepburn later admitted she would never have accepted the role of Eliza Dolittle if she had kn [...]	D
The shoot was unusually exhausting for Audrey Hepburn, who lost eight pounds during filming. Her wor [...]	D
27A Wimpole Street in London (Professor Henry Higgins' address) does not exist. (There is a 27 Wimpo [...]	D
According to Nancy Olson, who was married to lyricist Alan Jay Lerner at the time he was writing the [...]	D
In the scene where Professor Henry Higgins knocks a record player that is playing a recording of vow [...]	D
The "marbles" Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) puts in Eliza Doolittle's (Audrey Hepburn's [...]	D
Even though the film is set in the year 1912, there is no mention of the sinking of the Titanic, whi [...]	D
About twenty minutes before the end of the movie, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) offers [...]	D
The only movie to be nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting [...]	D
Producer Jack L. Warner paid $5.5 million for the movie rights in February 1962. This set a record f [...]	D
Costume designer Cecil Beaton reputedly created 1,500 costumes for this movie.	D
Jeremy Brett (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), during his stint on this movie, was never able to visit the bea [...]	D
The original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York [...]	D
The controversy over Audrey Hepburn being cast as Eliza Doolittle over Dame Julie Andrews, who origi [...]	D
Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway) said he's been left Â£4,000 per year. Assuming that this mo [...]	D
Shirley Jones was one of the actresses to whom Jack L. Warner planned to offer the role of Eliza Doo [...]	D
The film, originally produced by Warner Bros., became owned by CBS in 1971 per an agreement between [...]	D
Stanley Holloway was nominated for the 1957 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Ac [...]	D
Producer Jack L. Warner considered this movie to be one of his finest achievements.	D
The only surviving audio element from the movie is the production master, which is actually one gene [...]	D
George Cukor asked production designer Gene Allen to direct the second unit for the Ascot scene.	D
Producer Jack L. Warner would not hire Dame Julie Andrews to play Eliza. He said she simply wasn't f [...]	D
At one stage, Warner Brothers was in negotiations with Peter O'Toole, extremely hot after his Lawren [...]	D
Warner Brothers paid $5.5 million for the film rights and didn't want to risk a stage actress in the [...]	D
This film is one of two based on Pygmalion that is currently owned by Paramount Pictures despite not [...]	D
Audrey Hepburn had signed for the movie with the understanding that she would do her own singing. Sh [...]	D
Rex Harrison nailed his vocal performance of each song on the first take.	D
When Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) and Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) are [...]	D
The original choice to direct this movie was Vincente Minnelli, but when his salary demands were too [...]	D
For the early part of Eliza's transformation, Cecil Beaton insisted that Audrey Hepburn wear weights [...]	D
Julie Andrews, the originator of the role of Eliza on Broadway, was obviously passed over for the sa [...]	D
Despite extensive vocal training after landing the part of Professor Henry Higgins in this movie, Si [...]	D
All of the songs in this movie were performed nearly complete. However, there were some verse omissi [...]	D
Audrey Hepburn was generally felt to be too old for her character.	D
Warner Brothers had tried to keep the dubbing of Audrey Hepburn's singing a secret, but when the mov [...]	D
Most costumers and make-up artists had to camouflage Audrey Hepburn's square jaw, but for her early [...]	D
The original Broadway production of "Pygmalion," on which "My Fair Lady" was based, opened at the Pa [...]	D
Production designer Gene Allen was never given a budget with which to work. He just designed and had [...]	D
The picture on the wall of Professor Henry Higgins' library (profile, facing left) is of the famous [...]	D
Alfred's acceptance of Â£5 from Henry would be the equivalent of approximately $700 in the modern [...]	D
At Audrey Hepburn's insistence, director George Cukor shot all of her scenes in sequence so that she [...]	D
The musical was to have been called "Lady Liza", but Sir Rex Harrison refused to countenance a title [...]	D
George Cukor and Cecil Beaton took a lavish approach to this movie's set design. In a departure from [...]	D
When Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Dolittle.) was first informed that her voice wasn't strong enough and tha [...]	D
At $17 million, this was the most expensive Warner Brothers movie produced at the time. Nevertheless [...]	D
Final film of Anne Dore.	D
The title of the movie appears nowhere in the dialogue nor any of the song lyrics.	D
George Cukor and Cecil Beaton did not get along during filming. Cukor complained that Beaton tried t [...]	D
The scene where Eliza swallows a marble while practicing her elocution came from an unscripted momen [...]	D

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