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My Fair Lady (1964)

G ★ 7.5/10 170 min Comedy, Romance United States English
Director: George Cukor
Screenplay by: Alan Jay Lerner
Theatre Play: George Bernard Shaw
Musicals: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Book: Alan Jay Lerner
Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner
Streaming: Not available
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Description

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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Top Cast

Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn Eliza Doolittle
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison Professor Henry Higgins
Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway Alfred P. Doolittle
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilfrid Hyde-White Colonel Hugh Pickering
Gladys Cooper
Gladys Cooper Mrs. Higgins
Jeremy Brett
Jeremy Brett Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel Zoltan Karpathy
Mona Washbourne
Mona Washbourne Mrs. Pearce

My Fair Lady Appears on 15 Curated Movie Lists

Awards

Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Awards #61
Academy Awards: Best Actor
Academy Awards #39
Academy Awards: Best Director
Academy Awards #38
Golden Globe Award For Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Golden Globe Awards #61

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #592
Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures #269
Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #111
Metacritics Top 250 Movies Of All Time
Metacritic #60
National Board Of Review's Yearly Top 10
National Board of Review #618
National Film Registry
National Film Registry #498

Critic Curated

Alltime Chicago Tribune Top 100
Chicago Tribune #61
Esquire's 16 Best Movie Musicals
Esquire #02
Indiewire's 65 Best Musical Movies Of All Time
IndieWire #14
Roger Eberts Great Movies
Roger Ebert #218
The Telegraphs 500 Must See Films
The Telegraph #34

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