Audrey Hepburn Presents Best Actor Oscar to Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady at 37th Academy Awards
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At the
37th Academy Awards on April 5,
1965,
Audrey Hepburn presents the best actor
Oscar to
Rex Harrison for his performance in "
My Fair Lady."
From
Universal Newsreel V. 38 R. 29, 1965-04-08.
Public domain film from the
US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_Academy_Awards
The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of
1964...
The Best Picture winner of 1964, director
George Cukor's My Fair Lady, was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The musical had run for many years on the stage (in both
NYC and
London). Audrey Hepburn, the female lead of the film, was controversially not nominated for
Best Actress. The unpopularity of her replacement of
Julie Andrews - the stage actress from the original play (and ironically the Best Actress winner of the year) - as well as the revelation that her singing performance was dubbed by
Marni Nixon were seen as the main reasons for the snub...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn (/ˈɔːdri ˈhɛpˌbɜrn/; born
Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 --
20 January 1993) was a
British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon,
Hepburn was active during
Hollywood's
Golden Age. She was ranked by the
American Film Institute as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of
American cinema...
Born in Ixelles, a district of
Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between
Belgium,
England and the
Netherlands, including German-occupied
Arnhem during the
Second World War. In
Amsterdam, she studied ballet with
Sonia Gaskell before moving to London in 1948 to continue her ballet training with
Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in
West End musical theatre productions. She spoke several languages including
English,
French,
Dutch,
Italian,
Spanish, and
German.
After appearing in several
British films and starring in the 1951
Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the lead role in
Roman Holiday (
1953), for which she was the first actress to win an
Academy Award, a
Golden Globe and a
BAFTA Award for a single performance. The same year, she won a
Tony Award for
Best Lead Actress in a
Play for
Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as
Sabrina (1954),
The Nun's Story (
1959),
Breakfast at Tiffany's (
1961),
Charade (
1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and
Wait Until Dark (
1967), for which she received Academy Award, Golden Globe and
BAFTA nominations. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won
Academy,
Emmy,
Grammy, and
Tony Awards. She won a record three
BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading
Role...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Harrison
Sir
Reginald Carey "
Rex" Harrison MBE (5 March
1908 -- 2 June
1990) was an English actor of stage
and screen.
Harrison began his career on the stage in 1924. He won his first Tony Award for his performance as
Henry VIII in
Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He won his second
Tony for the role of
Professor Henry Higgins in the stage production of My Fair Lady in
1957. He reprised the role for the 1964 film version, which earned him a
Golden Globe Award and
Best Actor Oscar.
In addition to his stage career, Harrison also appeared in numerous films, including
Anna and the King of
Siam (1946),
The Ghost and
Mrs. Muir (
1947),
Cleopatra (1963), and
Doctor Dolittle (1967). In July
1989, Harrison was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II.
In
1975, Harrison released his first autobiography. His second, A
Damned Serious Business:
My Life in
Comedy, was published posthumously in
1991.
Harrison was married a total of six times and had two sons:
Noel and
Carey Harrison. He continued working in stage productions until shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in June 1990 at the age of 82...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_(film)
My Fair Lady is a 1964
American musical film
adaptation of the
Lerner and Loewe stage musical of the same name based on the
1938 film adaptation of the original 1913 stage play
Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by
Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor
Cockney flower seller
Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of
Edwardian London.
The film won eight
Academy Awards, including
Best Picture,
Best Actor, and
Best Director...