A wonderfully stylish and witty movie classic.
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02/20/08
My Fair Lady (1964)
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Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 35
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8/10
Consensus: Fans of the play may miss Julie Andrews in the starring role -- particularly when Marni Nixon's singing comes out of Audrey Hepburn's mouth -- but the film's charm is undeniable.
Runtime: 2 hrs 53 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton's lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe's... [More]
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway
Director: George Cukor
Reviews for My Fair Lady
Top Critic An elegant musical with some top class tunes -- the last of a dying breed of big-buck productions.
02/20/08
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Hepburn is clearly awkward as the Cockney Eliza in the first half, and in general the adaptation is a little too reverential to really come alive.
06/24/06
Top Critic Well made musical, with more personal Cukor style and themes than is sometimes realized.
08/08/08
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04/28/08
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Top Critic Lerner and Loewe's musical masterwork, reimagined for film by director George Cukor.
12/13/06
Audrey Hepburn's dramatic transformation makes My Fair Lady an entertaining musical experience.
11/21/06
Cukor's screen version is classy in the positive and negative sense of this term: Stylish and elegant but also bloated, overlong, and theatrical. Harrison is good but it doesn't help that Audrey Hepburn's singing is incongruously dubbed by Marni Nixon.
07/23/06
The charisma of the leads, the gratifying (if poorly paced) story arc and the hummable tunes allow us to get past some of the film’s cinematic weaknesses.
03/06/04
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Hepburn is amazing; the best. GREAT Combo
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