His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle Audrey Hepburn , who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects | "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak? "Get Me to the Church on Time" Holloway• But there are some problems |
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"Just You Wait Reprise " Audrey Hepburn• "" — performed by Audrey Hepburn dubbed by Marni Nixon and chorus | "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak? Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill Jeremy Brett |
"I'm an Ordinary Man" Harrison• "I Could Have Danced All Night" Nixon• The Musical Worlds of Lerner and Loewe.
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Still, as another reviewer has so acutely noted, if she had been asked, we would have missed her in Mary Poppins, which was made the same year | "The Rain in Spain" Harrison, Hepburn, Nixon, Wilfrid Hyde-White• Try or get the SensagentBox With a , visitors to your site can access reliable information on over 5 million pages provided by Sensagent |
The story is brilliant of course, taken from George Bernard Shaw's acclaimed play Pygmalion, although materially altered to fit the requirements of a musical comedy.