Director: George Cukor

Writer: Alan Jay Lerner

From a play: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Music by: Frederick Loewe

Producer: Jack L. Warner

Keywords: Musical Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Wager

Phonetics professor Henry Higgins accepts a wager that he can makeover simple flower girl Eliza Dolittle and mold her into a proper high society dame. Musical adaptation of Shaw's Pygmalion with the ending altered. Won 8 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Score; received nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Editing.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Theodore Bikel	Actor	2-May-1924	21-Jul-2015	The Defiant Ones
Jeremy Brett	Actor	3-Nov-1933	12-Sep-1995	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Gladys Cooper	Actor	18-Dec-1888	17-Nov-1971	My Fair Lady
Isobel Elsom	Actor	16-Mar-1893	12-Jan-1981	Ladies in Retirement
Rex Harrison	Actor	5-Mar-1908	2-Jun-1990	My Fair Lady
Audrey Hepburn	Actor	4-May-1929	20-Jan-1993	My Fair Lady
Stanley Holloway	Actor	1-Oct-1890	30-Jan-1982	Passport to Pimlico
Wilfrid Hyde-White	Actor	12-May-1903	6-May-1991	My Fair Lady

CAST

Starring
Audrey Hepburn	...   Eliza
Rex Harrison	...   Henry Higgins
Co-Starring
Stanley Holloway	...   Alfred Doolittle
Wilfrid Hyde-White	...   Col. Pickering
Gladys Cooper	...   Mrs. Higgins
Jeremy Brett	...   Freddie
Theodore Bikel	...   Zoltan Karpathy
with
Mona Washbourne	...   Mrs. Pearce
Isobel Elsom	...   Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
John Holland	...   Butler

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