Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society | His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle Audrey Hepburn , who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects |
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Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins Sir Rex Harrison is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society | One of the best musicals ever, certainly along with West Side Story and Oliver! Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society |
Audrey Hepburn looks the part.
the cream of the 1960s | |
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But Marni Nixon's singing in the film is superb | Cecil Beaton's designs bring the screen to life and in the newly restored version it looks 'loverly' |
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