Fresh
For those who've seen the stage show, My Fair Lady give complete satisfaction and those who will see and hear the musical for the first time will be enchanted by it.
Kate Cameron, New York Daily News
My Fair Lady
The loverliest motion picture of them all!
1964 · 2h 50m · G
Comedy, Music, Romance
Directed by
George Cukor
Overview
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Director and cast
- George Cukor Director
- Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle
- Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins
- Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Hugh Pickering
- Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Higgins
- Jeremy Brett as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
- Theodore Bikel as Zoltan Karpathy
- Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Pearce
- Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Eynsford- Hill
- John Holland Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Despite all reservations expressed, I must make clear that his fantastically successful show has been converted into a generally entertaining film.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
A marvelous restoration of the 30-year-old musical, precisely the kind of high-class popular entertainment that Hollywood can't seem to make these days.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
A stunningly effective screen entertainment.
Robert J. Landry, Variety
Fresh
Lerner and Loewe's musical masterwork, reimagined for film by director George Cukor.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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