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.

Frasi

Professor Henry Higgins: May I ask, do you complai [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: I know your head aches; I [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: I could have danced all night. D
Eliza Doolittle: The difference between a lady and [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: [bumping into Freddy] Look where [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: There can't be any feeling betwee [...] D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: [on telephone to Scotland [...] D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: I'll have you know, Doolit [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Marry Freddy! What an inf [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Why can't a woman be more [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza, you are to stay he [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: By George, Eliza, the str [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by [...] D
[repeated line] Colonel Hugh Pickering: Well, I'm [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Damn, damn, damn, damn! D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Higgins, if there's any mi [...] D
Cockney: We've got a bloomin' heiress in our midst [...] D
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: I do hope we won't have any un [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: By George, she's got it! [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: By George, she's got it! [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places whe [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: You see, the great secret [...] D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Higgins! Professor Henry [...] D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Higgins, forgive the blunt [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: The question is not wheth [...] D
Alfred P. Doolittle: The old bloke died and left m [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Mother! Mrs. Higgins: Wh [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: How poignant it will be o [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Damn, damn, damn, DAMN! [...] D
Alfred P. Doolittle: I knew she had a career in fr [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: I sold flowers; I didn't sell mys [...] D
Freddy Eynsford-Hill: Darling! Eliza Doolittle: F [...] D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: How do you do it, may I as [...] D
[last lines] Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza? Wher [...] D
[first lines] [sounds from crowd, occasionally a [...] D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Higgins, at a time like th [...] D
Alfred P. Doolittle: The Lord above gave man an ar [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: You impudent hussy! D
Professor Henry Higgins: Would I run off and never [...] D
Freddy Eynsford-Hill: It's the new small talk. You [...] D
Lady at Ball: That young woman with Colonel Picker [...] D
[repeated line] Eliza Doolittle: I'm a good girl, [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: All right, Eliza, say it [...] D
Mrs. Higgins: Where's the girl now? Professor Hen [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: I ain't done nothin' wrong by spe [...] D
Landlady: ...and what things does she want? Her bi [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Shall we ask this baggage [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: I paid five pounds for he [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Who's hurting you, you si [...] D
Freddy Eynsford-Hill: [singing] I have often walke [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: The French don't care wha [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Mother, the most confound [...] D
Zoltan Karpathy: Don't you remember me? Professor [...] D
Mrs. Higgins: Do you mean to say that after you'd [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: I promise you, you'll say [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: [suspicious about her father show [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: *You* won my bet? You pre [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: You oughta be stuffed with nails, [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: She's so deliciously low. [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: [singing] Lots of chocolate for m [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places whe [...] D
Mrs. Pearce: Here's the mail, sir. Professor Henr [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: I've learned something fr [...] D
Mrs. Higgins: Henry! What a disagreeable surprise. D
Professor Henry Higgins: Damn Mrs. Pearce, damn th [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: [singing] Women are irrat [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's [...] D
Alfred P. Doolittle: What am I? I ask you, what am [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: How do you come to be so [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: You might marry, you know [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: *Here* are your slippers! *There* [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: Come on, Dover! Come on, Dover! M [...] D
Mrs. Higgins: How ever did you learn good manners [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: [singing] I shall not feel alone [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: I ain't dirty! I washed my face a [...] D
Professor Henry Higgins: Have some chocolates, Eli [...] D
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Are you a man of good char [...] D
Eliza Doolittle: Uuuuuhoooooooow! Professor Henry [...] D