His Fair Lady

A man in a three-piece suit and top hat is listening to a phonograph which plays the recording of a conversation.

" Oi knows wot good voice lessons cost!" a young women's heavily English accented voice came out of the phonograph. " A friend o' mine tykes French from a real professor she does, an' Oi knows wot that costs."

A beautifully dressed young women enters the room. The man does not see her. " Oi'm willing to pay a very reasonable proice," the voice goes on. " Oi' ll pay you one shil-"

The voice is cut off as the young women switches off the phonograph. " I washed my face an' hands before I come I did" she says.

A slow smile spreads over the man's face and he says quietly and happily, "Elisa!?"

Then his face turns neutral and he leans back in his chair, pulls his hat over his face and says, "Where the devil are my slippers?"

The man is named Henry Higgins (played by Rex Harrison), a rude, funny guy who is a language doctor. He studies how different people speak English differently. The women is named Elisa Doolittle (played by Audrey Hepburn), a poor women who has a mind of her own and is the same person on the phonograph. However, the voice on the phonograph is Elisa before Henry Higgins took her in. You see, Elisa was a vendor selling flowers on the street and then Higgins took her in and taught her to be a lady and-- most importantly--how to talk like one.

My Fair Lady was directed by George Cukor and produced by Warner Bros in 1964. Wilfred Hyde-White plays the kindly Colonel Pickering, who is Higgin's friend and makes a bet with him that Higgins cannot teach the flower girl Elisa to talk properly in six months. Gladys Cooper plays Mrs. Higgins, a headstrong old lady and Henry Higgins' mother, and Jeremy Brett plays Freddy Einsford-Hill, the nice, but dumb guy who falls in love with Elisa.

This is a funny and some times bittersweet movie about changing, then finding that where you once thought you fit, you don't anymore. When Elisa changes, she finds that where she sold flowers and where she had a bunch of friends she doesn't fit anymore, and her friends don't even recognize her.

This is a great movie I think everybody should see and all ages would love this movie-- a definite must see.