My Fair Lady
Binding: DVD
Region: Region 1
Actor: Harry Stradling Sr., Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Frank Flanagan
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Run Time: 173 minutes
ASIN: 630522577X
Rated: G (General Audience)
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1998-12-08
Average Customer Review: 
(From 246 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential video:
Hollywood’s legendary “woman’s director,” George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor’s set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it’s really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as “On the Street Where You Live” and “I Could Have Danced All Night.” Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza’s determined suitor. –Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
I adore this film, forever. by Melissa Ratliff
I’ve noticed in reading the reviews already posted that most people want to debate the casting of the film, and that’s fine. Others want to debate whether or not George Bernard Shaw would be angry at the ending (which he actually did pen for the 1930s version of Pygmalion.)
That’s all fine.
But here is my honest opinion of the film, and it’s romantic plotline. First of all, it’s beautiful. The scenery, the costumes, and the music. But the ambiguity of the Higgins/Eliza “sort of romance” has always been one of my favorite things about this film. Why? Because the one thing good ol’ George Bernard Shaw got right about this script (be it his original theatrical ending or the film ending) is that it shows us the different types of love between men and women. Not all love is eros and passionate. It is more subtle.
At the age of 10, I found this ending incredibly frustrating. Now as I approach my mid-twenties, I find it real and heartfelt. Perhaps, Higgins and Eliza remain platonic. Or, maybe Higgins and Eliza decide to marry? Maybe she does run off and marry Freddy. This sort of thing is best decided by the individual. But one thing is certain, they are most wonderfully in love, be it conventional or unconventional.
And that’s just loverly.
My Fair Lady by Anthony Greaves
My Fair LadyMy wife appreciated this DVD as a valued favourite addition to her library.
“I’m a good girl I am!” by classicmoviefan
The first time I saw this movie I fell in love with it and Audrey Hepburn!
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a poor flower girl on the streets in London. Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is a phonetics teacher who bets he can speak her to teach like a duchess. I never liked him that much - I always thought he was mean to her. She goes through the grueling hours of voice lessons and ends up making her debut as a lady at the horse show before going to the ball. She looks so dazzling and stunning at the ball scene, but I love her dress when she sings “The Rain In Spain.” (I have tried that marbles in the mouth quite a few times). I love the music “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “Show Me,” “On the Street Where You Live” and “Without You.” Although most of the songs were dubbed for Audrey, she did do some of the singing.
This is definitely a “loverly” classic!
DVD-My Fair Lady 2-disc special edition by Katie M. Nofsinger
This is my Dad’s favorite movie. He sings along to every song. The perfomanes are Oscar winning great.
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