![]() ![]() The whole film is so tiresome, and most of the songs are awful, too. I generally love those classic Technicolor musicals from the golden age of Hollywood, but I really hate "My Fair Lady." Everything about Hepburn's performance just triggers me. ![]() "My Fair Lady" was adapted from the Broadway musical which, in turn, was an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's famous play, "Pygmalion." It is almost three hours of Audrey Hepburn shrieking Cockney-sounding noises while Harrison huffs, puffs, and tuts. Higgins isn't really the romantic type, however, and after Eliza passes her big test at the ball, she feels under-appreciated and has her head turned by a handsome young suitor (Jeremy Brett). ![]() Eventually, they make progress and a bond develops between them. However, the producers wanted someone with more star power (via Parade) and she may have ruined her own chances by refusing a screen test.Įliza reacts rather rowdily to the Professor's heavy-handed methods at first, much to the consternation of his servants who can't stand the racket. By then she was Hollywood royalty, having received her fourth Oscar nomination a few years earlier for one of her signature roles, Holly Golightly in " Breakfast at Tiffany's." She was chosen over Julie Andrews, who originated the role of Eliza on stage and was a natural in the part. Hepburn was at the peak of her career when she was cast as Eliza Doolittle in George Cukor's interminable adaptation of the hit Broadway show. Her attempt at Cockney isn't as bad as Van Dyke's, but she leans way too hard into it. Or perhaps not, because as the daughter of a rich family attending ballet school, maybe she didn't rub shoulders all that often with street urchins, pearly kings and queens, flower-sellers, and other working-class stereotypes before she hit the big time. Perhaps you'd think Hepburn would develop something of an ear for the local dialect, having moved to London at the age of 15. ![]()
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