My Fair Lady (1964)

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

My Fair Lady2 And A Half Out Of 5My Fair Lady is a character driven musical drama that is all distraction to make it glorifying and instead leaves the audience none wiser at the end of curtain. Even though their lies a greater and layered concept among all the traffic in the feature, it also walks on a wafer thin premise for the most part of it, which is never going to make to the "pros" section no matter how hard the makers try. It is short on technical aspects like editing, cinematography and choreography but is rich on the background score, costume, production and art design. The camera work is stunning and is shot beautifully with a pleasing environment and palpable tone for the audience. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adaptive and thought-provoking if not gripping and smart as it seems. George Cukor; the director, has done an appreciative job but isn't good enough to create an impactful emotion on to the audience as aspired. The performance is plausible by Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison and is supported decently by Stanley Holloway and Gladys Cooper. My Fair Lady is a bit edgy but fair, an overstretched but worth and finely detailed but not elaborative that usually helps keep the audience engaged in it.

Julie Andrews was my first love - at 3 years old I had worn out 3 records of My Fair Lady playing it over and over again - Years latter I found out that my mother used to sing to me in her womb and I was trying to find her again threw Julie's voice. I was adopted. At 8 years old my grandmother took me too see My Fair Lady in the theater with Julie Andrews - Rex Harrison - Stanly Holloway - Wow.No one compares too Julie Andrews in this roll - Audrey Hepburn totally wrong for the roll. Don't know why this film got 8 academy awards. The only thing good about it were the costumes. Camera work was insensitive too the music although beautiful but sterile. Direction was terrible nothing was believable or fun. They should have waited 2 years for Julie to finish Sound of Music and Marry Poppins and got a different director and then we would have 3 classics. A disappointment and Crying Shame. Total waist of money.

I have never minded dubbing in musical films but why not be honest enough to credit the real singers,on both the opening titles and the record covers ? Marni Nixon's voice was so true and lyrical (I could listen to her all day). She really illuminated the performances of Deborah Kerr and Natalie Wood and did the same for Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady". Watching Audrey perform to her own vocals on YouTube,I felt suddenly let-down by the dull,lifeless sound;in turn,ruining the visuals.They retained most of Audrey's own voice for 'Just You Wait' and I thought the number was ponderous and wrong (the dream aspect hardly helped either).As soon as Marni's lilting soprano could be heard on the soundtrack, Audrey's performance was elevated too.Those ''stars" Marni Nixon sang for should have been grateful to her;she must have been a really nice,self-effacing person.One final point that needs clearing up:Walt Disney told Julie Andrews that he would postpone the filming of "Mary Poppins" if she was given the chance to play Eliza on screen.There would still have been time for her to do "The Sound Of Music" as well.As they say:"That's Hollywood".

I bought this at a yard sale in 2013, kept putting it off thinking, "Aacck! Look how long it is! Singing and wacky accents! I should call the dentist and see if he can bump up that root canal!" I finally slapped it on...and I loved it! Rex Harrison's way of sing/talking, perfect! My favorite character: Colonel Pickering. Wilfred Hyde-White, that guy was great, a real scene stealer.Never before understood the allure of Audrey Hepburn...until now! Yeah, I'd seen Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Wait Until Dark, all many years ago. Maybe too many years ago, now I have a greater appreciation of classic movies. She's absolutely adorable in this movie, and that one scene when she walks out dressed for the ball...jaw, meet floor! Surprised I knew half the songs already. But it has been around awhile, plenty of time to become an iconic musical. It was great, check it out if you can.