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Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Brand: HARRISON,REX EAN: 9786305225775 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 630522577X Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 08, 1998 Running Time: 173 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1964 Sales Rank: 765 MPN: 085391666820
Product Description: Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady. Genre: Musicals Rating: G Release Date: 8-DEC-1998 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video: Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - A Movie to Cherish
Years ago I saw the original Broadway stage version with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. This film version is more complex, with more in-depth characterization, and is impeccably filmed with many imaginative ... Read More
Rating: - Among the Top-3 Best Hollywood Musicals of All Time!
This musical won 8 Oscars including Best Picture and it is richly deserving of the accolades. The cast is superb and the songs are all standards destined to be appreciated over the years. I've watched this film ... Read More
Rating: - audrey hepburn
I am a huge Hepburn fan, she has such a way when you are watching her you forget....everything else around you! the films I do own breakfast at tiffany's roman holiday, sabrina, funny face, One that is vastly different ... Read More
Rating: - Family fare
I had seen My Fair Lady as have most people and enjoyed it. We went to the recent stage play and I wanted to see again Audrey and Rex. It was great. I recommend it to all who love to be uplifted when they see a movie.
Rating: - One of those movies where there is a reason it's a classic
Sadly, I had never seen this movie before purchasing it here. And this comes from a girl who adores Audrey Hepburn! But the moment the score began I was hooked at this humerous, enchanting tale of an very unusual Cinderella ... Read More
- A Movie to Cherish
- Among the Top-3 Best Hollywood Musicals of All Time!