Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964. Based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Shaw. Disc 1: high-definition transfer from the 1994 restoration pricture and sound elements, commentary by art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon, restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz. Disc 2: documentary More lovely than ever: My Fair Lady then and now, alternate Audrey Hepburn vocal versions of Show Me and Wouldn't it be Lovely?, vintage featurettes and archival footage of the production kickoff and awards ceremonies, comments from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Martin Scorsese, show me galleries of production still, sketches, documents and more, theatrical trailers. 28885. Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Halloway, Wilfird Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom.
Summary:
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
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