My Fair Lady (1964)

My Fair Lady2 And A Half Out Of 5My Fair Lady is a character driven musical drama that is all distraction to make it glorifying and instead leaves the audience none wiser at the end of curtain. Even though their lies a greater and layered concept among all the traffic in the feature, it also walks on a wafer thin premise for the most part of it, which is never going to make to the "pros" section no matter how hard the makers try. It is short on technical aspects like editing, cinematography and choreography but is rich on the background score, costume, production and art design. The camera work is stunning and is shot beautifully with a pleasing environment and palpable tone for the audience. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adaptive and thought-provoking if not gripping and smart as it seems. George Cukor; the director, has done an appreciative job but isn't good enough to create an impactful emotion on to the audience as aspired. The performance is plausible by Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison and is supported decently by Stanley Holloway and Gladys Cooper. My Fair Lady is a bit edgy but fair, an overstretched but worth and finely detailed but not elaborative that usually helps keep the audience engaged in it.

Julie Andrews was my first love - at 3 years old I had worn out 3 records of My Fair Lady playing it over and over again - Years latter I found out that my mother used to sing to me in her womb and I was trying to find her again threw Julie's voice. I was adopted. At 8 years old my grandmother took me too see My Fair Lady in the theater with Julie Andrews - Rex Harrison - Stanly Holloway - Wow.No one compares too Julie Andrews in this roll - Audrey Hepburn totally wrong for the roll. Don't know why this film got 8 academy awards. The only thing good about it were the costumes. Camera work was insensitive too the music although beautiful but sterile. Direction was terrible nothing was believable or fun. They should have waited 2 years for Julie to finish Sound of Music and Marry Poppins and got a different director and then we would have 3 classics. A disappointment and Crying Shame. Total waist of money.

Henry hates women. He is a mama's boy.This show is about a woman, but Henry wants to snag all the applause. He is snotty to women of what he thinks is the lower class.Henry is old, but unmarried and childless. Who could live with him, anyway? Mama tries to set him straight, but he is too stubborn.Henry is an obnoxious, selfish misogynist. His life revolves around his bratty self. Pygmalion, indeed. Pulling the strings, eh? End of my rant about stupid Henry Higgins.Now on to my observations about lovely Audrey Hepburn. Her pink outfit and matching hat are just divine. Freddy is a really cute number. Eliza jumps all over the vegetable cart with such divine movement and timing. She is joyously happy to be alive.Eliza's white ball costume is just divine. Her hair updo is just scrumptious. She even convinces the Theodore Bikel character that she is real royalty (???). I think Eliza surprised Henry and Colonel Pickering more than they thought that she would. Their creation became super popular. Henry and Pickering who? Pickering was an actual gentleman, opposed to Henry who was a childish, spoiled brat.Final scene: Henry ordering Eliza around, to pick up his slippers. What a moron. Get them yourself, you stupid idiot. Whatsa matter? Mama not around to pick up after you? Get a life. Who would want to marry you, anyway? I still liked this movie. It is a family favorite, for eons. The flower girl did succeed in shoveling it to old Henry. She was capable of being out on her own now.From clothing, I would guess the time period would be around 1910-1912. World War One was just around the corner. Henry would have still been studying obscure dialects, lost in his goofy nitwit cloud of oblivious nonchalance.The singing and dancing: you know that they are my favorites. So what if some singing is dubbed. It is still a wonderful show. Some characters even talked-sang.Still a 10/10.

I watched this movie with a lot of reserve, since I am not a fan of musicals and old movies. "My Fair Lady" forced me to expand my views and start watching more movies from this genre. But this will stay one of the best musicals ever! Didn't like the way it ends, although I understand that this is classic ending.Audrey Hepburn is just amazing and loud. Rex Harrison, in this movie, is simple natural misogynist. Alfred P. Doolittle was annoying, especially when he took money from Professor Henry Higgins.Audrey Hepburn is denied Oscar, she wasn't even nominated, although this movie claimed 8 Oscars and was nominated for four more.