My Fair Lady

Titolo originale: My Fair Lady
Regia: George Cukor |
Anno: 1964
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Musica Commedia Romance
Tag: transformation | musical | flower girl | colonel | suitor | wager | class differences | tutor | aristocrat | linguist | high society | misogynist | guttersnipe | class prejudice | opposites attract | pygmalion |
Cast: Audrey Hepburn | Rex Harrison | Stanley Holloway | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Gladys Cooper | Jeremy Brett | Theodore Bikel | Mona Washbourne | Isobel Elsom | John Holland | Marni Nixon | Colin Kenny | Bert Stevens | Frank Baker | Marjorie Bennett | Betty Blythe | Arthur Tovey | Al Bain | William Beckley | Lillian Kemble-Cooper | Henry Daniell | Brendan Dillon | Iris Bristol | Geoffrey Steele | Charles Fredericks | Maurice Dallimore | John Alderson | John McLiam | John Mitchum | Alan Napier | Christopher Riordan | Michael St. Clair | Grady Sutton | Stuart Hall | Sam Harris | Leoda Richards | Buddy Bryan |

Il professor Higgins (Rex Harrison), glottologo britannico di fama internazionale, scommette con l'amico Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) di riuscire a trasformare la povera fioraia Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in una dama di alta classe, entro sei mesi. Dopo estenuanti tentativi ed un fallimento iniziale, all'ippodromo con tutti i signori più illustri, Eliza viene apprezzata per i modi e l'eleganza dall'alta società londinese. Concluso l'esperimento la fioraia dovrebbe tornare al suo contesto sociale, ma i cambiamenti avvenuti e l'innamoramento verso il suo mentore Higgins, fanno sì che Eliza decida di restare in casa del professore. Rifiutata da quest'ultimo fugge disperata, e solo allora Higgins si rende conto quanto ella sia diventata importante per la sua vita. Dopo un breve periodo di separazione i due torneranno finalmente a vivere assieme.

Errori

When Professor Higgins talks about the breakfast cakes, Colonel Pickering drinks his coffee and puts [...] D
When Freddy sings "On the Street Where You Live," it's audible in several places (e.g. when he says [...] D
When Higgins comes home after the Grand Ball, he takes off his shoes as clearly seen in a shot in wh [...] D
At the beginning of the film Eliza asks Henry to show her what he has been writing about her. When H [...] D
During "Just You Wait", Eliza sings "Ho, ho, ho, Henry Higgins!", but her mouth movements show that [...] D
Higgins' arm on the back of the chair during 'An Ordinary Man'. D
Eliza Doolittle is not speaking with a 'Cockney Accent' as she is from Lisson Grove, North London. T [...] D
In the pub scene ("I'm getting married in the morning") none of the beer glasses are of British desi [...] D
When Higgins lounges across a chair while singing "An Ordinary Man", his right arm is draped over th [...] D
Eliza puts down her basket by the fire when she is singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly". After the song [...] D
When Eliza is singing "I Could Have Danced All Night," the maids are furiously trying to dress her i [...] D
During the bath scene where the shot is full of steam, there is no way anyone could survive the temp [...] D
Just before the "You Did It" number, Higgins removes his shoes and rubs his feet. During the song, h [...] D
When Eliza is brought up to the Queen of Transylvania and is asked by her to dance with her son, the [...] D
During the song "Why Can't The English?" Higgins sings 'Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of sum [...] D
After the Queen of Transylvania touches Eliza's chin, Pickering and Higgins look at each other. A mo [...] D
When Higgins comes home after the Grand Ball, he takes off his shoes and holds a cigar in one hand w [...] D
The item in Higgins' hand when celebrating Eliza's triumph at the ball. D
During "Ascot Gavotte", when the crowd go to the edge of the track to watch the race, it zooms in on [...] D
When Eliza is practicing her H sounds in the rotating mirror, the mirror's speed of rotation changes [...] D
When Higgins and Eliza are on the way out to the ball, the head maid is in the line with the other m [...] D
When Higgins first asks Eliza to recite the verse, "In Hertford, Hereford..." and, he makes the mirr [...] D
In the number "With a Little Bit of Luck", as Alfred Doolittle walks to the left side of the screen [...] D
In the early scene where Eliza offers to pay for lessons, Higgins tells her, "Sit down!" and points [...] D
As an English gentleman, Freddie would not say or sing "ON the street where you live". English peopl [...] D
Wilfrid Hyde-White (Col. Pickering) actually forgot the housekeeper's (Mrs. Pearce) name as she left [...] D
In the final scene Prof. Higgins is alone in the room, sitting in his chair, a shadow that appears t [...] D
The recording Higgins plays of Eliza speaking in the last scene of the film is different dialog from [...] D
In the Royal Ascot scene, the horses race in the wrong direction.Ascot is a right-handed track where [...] D
In the song "Why Can't the English?", Professor Higgins sings, "By right, she should be taken out an [...] D
When Eliza throws Higgins' slippers at him they pass through the doorway. Later, when he bends down [...] D
As Eliza collects coins from the ground just before the "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" number, a man in th [...] D
The white wicker peacock chair Professor Higgins sits down in at in his mom's house while arguing wi [...] D
When Prof. Higgins sings "An Ordinary Man" he turns on several phonographs, seconds later he turns o [...] D
In almost the final scene, when Higgins goes to open the door with the key, he inserts the key, but [...] D
When Alfred sings "Get Me to the Church on Time", he sings "Stamp me and mail me", which is an Ameri [...] D
When Eliza sings "I Could Have Danced All Night", she goes into the bathroom, turns on the tap, and [...] D
Although the story takes place in 1912, the Rolls-Royce they use is from the late 1920's. D
During the opening scenes at Covent Opera House, there is a woman wearing a long purple dress. She i [...] D
When Eliza is singing the last reprise of the chorus of "I Could Have Danced All Night" in bed, her [...] D
The "King of England" character is meant to be any historical king. He represents Eliza's dream of w [...] D
As often happens in film, actors who live in sunny Hollywood reveal themselves as mere actors and no [...] D
When Eliza exits Mrs. Higgins' garden after singing "Without You", she goes through the gates that l [...] D
During "The Rain in Spain", Audrey Hepburn's voice can be heard to be mixed with Marni Nixon's voice [...] D