The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995)

Actors: Bob Mackie (actor), Andrew Lloyd Webber (actor), Army Archerd (actor), Rock Hudson (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Yul Brynner (actor), Theodore Bikel (actor), George Cukor (actor), Theodore Bikel (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Julian Holloway (actor), Steve McQueen (actor),

Plot: This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of My Fair Lady, the classic musical about a poor young girl transformed into a woman of society through the tutoring of Prof. Henry Higgins. Includes footage of the filming process, as well as discussion by modern film critics about the impact movie had on later films.

Keywords: behind-the-scenes, famous-score, filmmaking, hollywood, interview, making-of, making-of-film, movie-connection-in-title, musical-filmmaking, pygmalion
Genres: Documentary,

Pygmalion (1983)

Actors: Margot Kidder (producer), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Peter O'Toole (actor), John Standing (actor), Margot Kidder (actress), Ron White (actor), Philip Craig (actor), Frances Hyland (actress), Donna Goodhand (actress), Hugh Webster (actor), Shelagh McLeod (actress), Ann Hollowood (costume designer), Alan Cooke (director), Donald Ewer (actor), Allan Kane (composer),

Genres: ,

Pygmalion (1976)

Actors: George Bernard Shaw (writer), Joop van den Ende (producer), Ko van Dijk (director), Ko van Dijk (actor), Coen Flink (actor), Allard van der Scheer (actor), Yoka Berretty (actress), Willeke Alberti (actress), Mary Dresselhuys (actress), Lies de Wind (actress), Margreet Heemskerk (actress), Ad Fernhout (actor), Jan van der Wilt (miscellaneous crew), Paul Pouwels (director), Jan van der Werff (editor),

Genres: Drama,

Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is (1974)

Actors: Dwight Hemion (director), Jackie Gleason (actor), Jackie Gleason (actor), Jackie Gleason (actor), Jackie Gleason (actor), Julie Andrews (actress), Julie Andrews (actress), Julie Andrews (actress), Gary Smith (producer), Jackie Gleason (actor), John Aylesworth (writer), Frank Peppiatt (writer),

Genres: Comedy, Music,

Quotes:

Jackie Gleason: 30 years in this business and you're still treated like a beginner. Like a 55 year old office boy looking for a job... with a chance for advancement. All those years... and what do I have to show for it? A couple of suits? I couldn't even get this one pressed.::Jackie Gleason: Well emperor is it thumbs up or thumbs down? Do we get to work another day? Do we get to eat another day? Do we get to LIVE another day?::Julie Andrews: Please Mr Dennis, don't do this to yourself, this is no way for an actor to behave...::Jackie Gleason: Oh yes it is. I was doing what actors do best, showing off a little bit. That was a line from Act 3, scene 2 of "THE COMPANY MAN"... it was written by Robert Lawton. THAT's what you call acting.::Jackie Gleason: Tell the emperor::Jackie Gleason: NEXT!

Pygmalion (1968)

Actors: Gunnar Björnstrand (actor), Karl Erik Flens (actor), Börje Mellvig (actor), Olof Thunberg (actor), Olof Widgren (actor), Harriet Andersson (actress), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (actress), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Frej Lindqvist (actor), Inga Gill (actress), Renée Björling (actress), Anita Wall (actress), Hans Wigren (actor), Kåre Santesson (director), Gun Robertson (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

My Fair Lady (1964)

Actors: Jimmy Horan (actor), John Mitchum (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), John Holland (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Colin Campbell (actor), Theodore Bikel (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Henry Daniell (actor), John Alderson (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Patrick O'Moore (actor), Alan Napier (actor),

Plot: Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.

Keywords: 1910s, 70mm-film, apology, aristocrat, ascot-racecourse, bachelor, bachelor-party, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-stage-play
Genres: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: The loverliest motion picture of them all! The most loverly motion picture event of all! More Loverly Than Ever!

Quotes:

Professor Henry Higgins: She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.

Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. If you work hard and do as you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and go for rides in taxis. But if you are naughty and idle, you shall sleep in the back kitchen amongst the black beetles, and be wolloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you will be taken to Buckingham Palace, in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the king finds out you are not a lady, you will be taken to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls! But if you are not found out, you shall have a present... of, ah... seven and six to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you.

Eliza Doolittle: [singing] Lot's of chocolates for me to eat! / Lot's of coal makin' lots of heat / Warm face, warm hands, warm feet / Oh, wouldn't it be lovely?

Freddy Eynsford-Hill: It's the new small talk. You do it so awfully well.

Colonel Hugh Pickering: I'll have you know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins' intentions are entirely honorable!::Alfred P. Doolittle: Oh, 'course they are, guv'nor. If I thought they wasn't, I'd ask fifty.::Professor Henry Higgins: [shocked] You mean to say you'd sell your daughter for fifty pounds?::Colonel Hugh Pickering: Have you NO morals, man?::Alfred P. Doolittle: Nah. Nah, can't afford 'em, guv'nor. Neither could you, if you was as poor as me.

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: I do hope we wont have any unseasonable cold spells, they bring on so much influenza. And the whole of our family is succeptable to it.::Eliza Doolittle: My Aunt died of influenza, or so they said. But its my belief they done the old woman in.::Mrs. Higgins: Done her in?::Eliza Doolittle: Yes, lord love you. Why should she die of influenza, when she come through diptheria right enough the year before. Fairly blue with it she was. They all thought she was dead. But my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl right off the spoon.::Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: Dear Me!::Eliza Doolittle: Now what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? [pause] Somebody pinched it. And what I say is: them 'as pinched it, done her in.::Lord Boxington: Done her in? Done her in did you say?::Lady Boxington: Whatever does it mean?::Mrs. Higgins: Its the new slang meaning someone has killed her.::Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: Surely you don't think someone killed her?::Eliza Doolittle: Do I not? Them she lived with would have killed her for a hatpin, let alone a hat.::Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: But it can't have been right for your father to be pouring spirits down her throat like that, it could have killed her.::Eliza Doolittle: Not her, gin was mother's milk to her. Besides he poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it.::Lord Boxington: Do you mean he drank?::Eliza Doolittle: Drank? My word something chronic. [responding to freddy's laughter]::Eliza Doolittle: Here! What are you sniggering at?::Freddy Eynsford-Hill: The new small talk, you do it so awfully well.::Eliza Doolittle: Well if I was doing it proper, what was you sniggering at? Have I said anything I oughtn't?::Mrs. Higgins: No my dear.::Eliza Doolittle: Well thats a mercy anyhow...

Professor Henry Higgins: Damn, damn, damn, DAMN! [astonished] I've grown accustomed to her face! She almost makes the day begin! I've grown accustomed to the tune that she whistles night and noon. Her smiles, her frowns, her ups, her downs, are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in... I was serenely independent and content before we met! Surely I could always be that way again... And yet... I've grown accustomed to her looks, accustomed to her voice, accustomed... to her... face.

Professor Henry Higgins: Marry Freddy! What an infantile idea, what a heartless, wicked, brainless thing to do. She'll regret it. She'll regret it! It's doomed before they even take the vow. [sings] I can see her now, "Mrs. Freddy Einsford-Hill," in a wretched little flat above a store. I can see her now! Not a penny in the till, and a bill-collector beating at the door! She'll try to teach the things *I* taught her... and end up selling flowers instead! Begging for her bread and water! While her husband has his breakfast in bed! In a year or so, when she's prematurely gray, and the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk, she'll come home, and lo! He'll have upped and run away with a social climbing heiress from New York! Poor Eliza! How simply frightful! How humiliating! How *delightful*!

Professor Henry Higgins: How poignant it will be on that inevitable night, when she shows up on my door in tears and rags! Miserable and lonely, repentant and contrite! Shall I take her in, or hurl her to the wolves? Give her kindness, or the treatment she deserves? Will I take her back, or THROW THE BAGGAGE OUT? Well, I'm a most forgiving man. The sort who never could, ever would, take a position and staunchly never budge. A *most* forgiving man... But, I shall NEVER take her back! If she were crawling on her KNEES! Let her promise to atone, let her shiver, let her moan, I'll slam the door and let the hellcat FREEZE! Marry Freddy! HA!::[turns to unlock the door, but stops in despair]::Professor Henry Higgins: But I'm so used to hear her say, "Good morning" every day... Her joys, her woes, her highs, her lows, are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in... I'm very grateful she's a woman, and so easy to forget! Rather like a habit one can always break... And yet... I've grown accustomed to the trace... of something in the air... Accustomed... to her... face.

Professor Henry Higgins: Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Pygmalion (1963)

Actors: Julie Harris (actress), George Schaefer (director), George Bernard Shaw (writer), George Rose (actor), Gladys Cooper (actress), Regina Wallace (actress), James Donald (actor), John Williams (actor), Robert Hartung (writer), Adrienne Luraschi (miscellaneous crew), Basil Langton (actor), Norman Barrs (actor), Mildred Trares (actress), Valerie Cossart (actress), John Irving (actor),

Genres: ,

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe (1962)

Actors: Norman Jewison (director), Richard Burton (actor), Maurice Chevalier (actor), Robert Goulet (actor), Robert Goulet (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Charles Nelson Reilly (actor), Julie Andrews (actress), Julie Andrews (actress), Julie Andrews (actress), Frances Sternhagen (actress), Norman Jewison (producer), Richard Burton (actor), Norman Rosemont (producer),

Genres: Music,

Pygmalion (1957)

Actors: Ostara Körner (actress), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Walter Lendrich (actor), Werner Pledath (actor), Gerhard Bienert (actor), Heinz Hinze (actor), Rudolf Noelte (director), Margret Homeyer (actress), Amy Frank (actress), Margarete Körting (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Pygmalion (1938)

Actors: Ivor Barnard (actor), H.F. Maltby (actor), Ian Dalrymple (writer), Frank Atkinson (actor), O.B. Clarence (actor), Everley Gregg (actress), Jean Cadell (actress), Leo Genn (actor), Leslie Howard (actor), Wally Patch (actor), Wilfrid Lawson (actor), Anthony Quayle (actor), Patrick Macnee (actor), W.P. Lipscomb (writer), Anatole de Grunwald (writer),

Plot: The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.

Keywords: alphabet, ambassador, author, automation, bachelor, bad-breath, ball, ballroom, ballroom-dancing, based-on-play
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly ! . . . See Wendy Hiller, new star discovery, in this amazing role ! Miss 'Pygmalion'? Not ****** likely!

Quotes:

Prof. Henry Higgins: If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.

Eliza Doolittle: Walk? Not bloody likely. I'm going in a taxi.

Eliza Doolittle: I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.

Professor Henry Higgins: Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?

Prof. Henry Higgins: Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the English language, I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba!

First Policeman: [to Eliza and Freddie, who are kissing on the street] Now then, now then, now then. This isn't Paris, you know.

Prof. Henry Higgins: [directed to Eliza in anger] Get out and come home and don't be a fool!::Mrs. Higgins: Very nicely put indeed, Henry. No woman could resist such an invitation.

Prof. Henry Higgins: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains.

[repeated line]::Eliza Doolittle: I'm a good girl, I am!

Prof. Henry Higgins: Heaven help the master who is judged by his disciples.