My Fair Lady Director: George Cukor Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
DVD - 2 Disc Set - 2-Disc Special Edition / Wide Screen Learn more
- DVD Release Date: 02/03/2004
- Original Release: 1964
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Features
Disc 1: Audio commentary by art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon, and restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz.
Disc 2: "More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of My Fair Lady -- Then and Now"; "The Production," all-new featurette on 1963 production-kickoff dinner; audio of George Cukor directing Baroness Bina Rothschild; Audrey Hepburn's alternate vocals for "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Show Me"; posters and lobby cards with Rex Harrison radio interview; "The Fairest Fair Lady" making-of featurette; L.A. premiere footage; "Show Me" galleries of black-and-white production stills, production documents, Cecil Beaton costume sketches, and architectural drawings; Rex Harrison's Golden Globe acceptance speech; 37th Academy Awards footage; testimonials from Martin Scorsese and Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lerner and Loewe trailers including Brigadoon ('54), Camelot ('67), Gigi ('58), My Fair Lady (original '64 and '94 re-release).
Scene Index
Side #1 -- My Fair Lady
1. Overture and Credits [3:30]
2. The Rain in Covent Garden [2:16]
3. Phonetics in Practice [4:04]
4. Why Can't the English? [2:58]
5. Higgins' Boast [1:38]
6. Wouldn't It Be Loverly? [4:36]
7. Not a Brass Farthing [5:03]
8. Something Better? [2:00]
9. Negotiations [6:19]
10. And the Angels Will Weep [4:59]
11. Bath Time [2:15]
12. I'm an Ordinary Man [5:00]
13. With A Little Bit of Luck [5:54]
14. Gift of Rhetoric [4:31]
15. The Undeserving Poor [4:20]
16. Just You Wait [4:21]
17. As and Hs [2:21]
18. Poor Professor Higgins [4:54]
19. Pep Talk [1:33]
20. The Rain in Spain [4:12]
21. I Could Have Danced All Night [4:04]
22. Ascot Gavotte [3:30]
23. At the Races [1:37]
24. The New Small Talk [4:14]
25. Dover's Bloomin' Arse [2:27]
26. On the Street Where You Live [4:49]
27. The Girl Matters [2:24]
28. Dressed for the Ball [1:04]
29. Intermission [:39]
30. Entr'Acte [1:14]
31. Zoltan Karpathy [1:41]
32. The Embassy Waltz [2:01]
33. Quite Charming [2:07]
34. Abuzz About Eliza [3:52]
35. You Did It [6:09]
36. What's to Become of Her? [7:11]
37. Just You Wait Reprise [1:30]
38. On the Street Where You Live Reprise [1:19]
39. Show Me [3:06]
40. Wouldn't It Be Loverly? Reprise [3:10]
41. Respectable! [3:41]
42. Get Me to the Church on Time [6:03]
43. Eliza's Bolted [2:11]
44. A Hymn to Him [4:52]
45. The Lady's Whereabouts [2:42]
46. Eliza's Future [4:10]
47. Without You [4:51]
48. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face [4:38]
49. Where the Devil? [3:09]
50. Exit Music/End Credits [1:18]
Side #2 -- Special Features
1. Rescuing a Damsel [3:41]
2. Gala Event [1:15]
3. Broadway Triumph [5:32]
4. Restoration Needed [4:36]
5. A Song Is Born [3:20]
6. Rex Harrison [3:20]
7. Recreating the Sound [1:37]
8. Audrey Hepburn [3:01]
9. Voice Doubles [9:10]
10. Director's Director [2:29]
11. Optical Flaw [1:10]
12. Remarkable Cast [3:17]
13. Shrinkage [1:37]
14. Visual Style [6:52]
15. Post-Production [1:23]
16. Lady's Makeover [4:10]
17. End Credits [1:10]
Editorial Reviews
Few musicals have ever captured the hearts of viewers as thoroughly as this lavish cinematic confection. Adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady was a hit on Broadway before becoming a movie that went on to win eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Directed by George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story), My Fair Lady is a monument to Hollywood artifice, portraying a world where the London slums are spotless, and even the poor and destitute break into song and dance at the slightest provocation. Audrey Hepburn’s portrayal of the Covent Garden flower girl who is transformed into a lady ranks among the star’s most indelible performances. Famed photographer Cecil Beaton designed the costumes and sets, and Hepburn never looked more exquisite than she does here against his elegantly stylized backdrops. The unforgettable songs -- "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Rain in Spain," and "Get Me to the Church on Time" (Marni Nixon dubbed Hepburn’s singing) -- combine with Shaw’s deliciously snappy and literate dialogue to lend My Fair Lady rare sophistication. Rex Harrison (in an Oscar-winning reprisal of his stage role) is perfect as Henry Higgins, the cheerfully misogynistic speech professor who rids the winsome "guttersnipe" of her Cockney accent and ends up losing his heart to her. Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Gladys Cooper provide delightful support. Like most period pieces, My Fair Lady is very much a product of the era in which it was made: Dressed up for her Cinderella moment at the embassy ball, Hepburn looks strikingly like the early-'60s feminine ideal, Jackie Kennedy. Audiences today may wince at the film’s ending, but this candy-coated take on the battle of the sexes and classes still charms. Kryssa Schemmerling, Barnes & Noble
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