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| Who is the gorgeous leading lady in 'My Fair Lady'? | My Fair Lady
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Audrey Hepburn. Although Julie Andrews was playing the part of Eliza Doolittle on Broadway at the time when this movie was cast, however Audrey Hepburn was cast in the part instead. This was because Audrey was better known than Julie.
| What does Eliza Doolittle do for a living before meeting Henry Higgins? | My Fair Lady
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| What is the name of the man that Henry Higgins meets on the street in the beginning of the film? | My Fair Lady
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Colonel Pickering. Wilfrid Hyde-White plays the part of Colonel Pickering. It is Colonel Pickering who pays for Eliza's education.
Pygmalion. "My Fair Lady" is a musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1912 play "Pygmalion" that had played successfully on Broadway from 1956 to 1962. Shaw's plot was derived from Latin poet Ovid's story (in the Metamorphoses) about a character named Pygmalion who fell in love with a beautiful ivory statue of a woman. In later Greek tradition, his prayers to Venus that the beloved statue - Galatea - would come to life came true so that they could marry.
Alfred P. Doolittle. Alfred learns that Eliza has moved in with the Professor and decides that he could earn himself some money by blackmailing Professor Higgins. As Alfred leaves with his five pound note, he hardly recognizes his cleaned-up daughter. The Professor recognises that Alfred is somewhat of a "philosophical genius," he instructs Mrs. Pearce (the house keeper)to write to an American philanthropist & millionaire Mr. Ezra D. Wallingford. Mr Wallingford dies shortly after this and leaves money for Alfred making him 'respectable' and thus has to marry to keep up appearances.
| According to one of the songs from the film, where does it rain? | My Fair Lady
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Spain. The line used in the movie is "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain". It is after a very late night of hard work that Professor Higgins gives an eloquent speech which inspires Eliza to speak properly.
| Where do the men take Eliza for her first 'outing' as a lady? | My Fair Lady
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Ascot Races. It is at the races that Eliza meets Freddie Eynsford-Hill - who is instantly smitten with Eliza and spends the rest of the movie hanging around outside the Professor's residence hoping to catch a glimpse of Eliza.
| At the Embassy Ball Eliza is found to be a fraud. According to Zoltan Karpathy who is she really supposed to be? | My Fair Lady
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Hungarian Princess. Zoltan reminds Professor Higgins that he was his pupil. "Your first, your greatest, your best pupil...I made your name famous throughout Europe. You teach me phonetics, you cannot forget me...The Queen of Transylvania is here this evening. I'm indispensable to her at these official international parties. I speak thirty-two languages. I know everyone in Europe. No impostor can escape my detection."
| What is the name of the man who designed the costumes for 'My Fair Lady'? | My Fair Lady
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Cecil Beaton . Cecil Beaton won an Oscar for Best Color Costume Design for this movie. Amusement park trams were rented to carry ballroom scene extras across the studio lot, in order to prevent their makeup and costumes from getting dirty or damaged.
| What is the name of the woman whose voice it is we hear when Eliza sings during the movie (except 'I Could Have Danced All Night')? | My Fair Lady
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| At this point in the song the servants begin to sing with Audrey (really Marni Nixon) about getting to bed. Fill in the blank: "It's after _______ now, don't you agree now? She ought to be in bed. She ought to be in bed."
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3. This is a beautiful interaction between Eliza and the servants. They are insisting on the importance of her going to bed, but she demonstrates her happiness and excitement by singing and dancing and not wanting to go to sleep.
| Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "Are there lilac trees in the heart of town. Can you hear a _______ in any other part of town? Does enchantment pour out of every door. No, it's just on the street where you live." | "My Fair Lady" Lyrics Part 2
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lark. "And, oh, the towering feeling. Just to know somehow you are near. The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear." "My Fair Lady" received eight Academy Awards in 1964. There have been seven movies, including "My Fair Lady", that have won 8 Academy Awards. The other six are: "Gone With the Wind", "From Here to Eternity", "On the Waterfront", "Cabaret", "Gandhi", and "Amadeus".
| At the beginning of the movie, Eliza is trying to sell some flowers when it's starting to rain. What is the amount of money Eliza says she can change? | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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half a crown. Eliza: "Cheer up, captain. Buy a flower off a poor girl?"
Col. Pickering: "I'm sorry. I haven't any change."
Eliza: "Oh, I can change half a crown. Here, take this for tuppence."
Col. Pickering: "I told you, I'm awfully sorry. I haven't -- Oh, wait a minute. Oh, yes. Here's three ha'pence, if that's any use to you."
| Fill in the blank with the correct answer to: Where does Professor Higgins say that Coronel Pickering is from? Cheltenham, Harrow, ______________, and India. | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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Cambridge. Street Man: "Hey, uh, tell him where he comes from, you want to go fortune telling."
Prof. Higgins: "Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge and, uh, India?"
Col. Pickering: "Quite right!"
Street Man: "Blimey, he ain't a "tec. He's a bloomin' busybody. That's what he is."
Col. Pickering: "If I may ask, sir, do you do this sort of thing for a living at a music hall?"
Prof. Higgins: "Well, I have thought of it. Perhaps I will one day."
Eliza: "He's no gentleman. He ain't, to interfere with a poor girl!"
Col. Pickering: "How do you do it, may I ask?"
Prof. Higgins: "Simple phonetics. The science of speech. That's my profession. Also my hobby."
both. Prof. Higgins: "You see this creature with her curbstone English, the English that'll keep her in the gutter 'til the end of her days? Well, sir, in six months, I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy ball. I could even get her a job as a lady's maid or a shop assistant...which requires better English."
Spoken Sanskrit. Col. Pickering: "I, myself, am a student of Indian dialects."
Prof. Higgins: "Are you? Do you know Colonel Pickering, the author ofSpoken Sanskrit?"
Col. Pickering: "I am Colonel Pickering. Who are you?" Colonel Pickering was played by Wilfred Hyde-White.
Higgins' Universal Alphabet. Prof. Higgins: "I'm Henry Higgins, author of Higgins' Universal Alphabet."
Col. Pickering: "I came from India to meet you."
Prof. Higgins: "I was going to India to meet you!"
Col. Pickering: "Higgins!"
Prof. Higgins: "Pickering!"
Cary Grant, Noel Coward, Michael Redgrave and George Sanders were all considered for the role of Higgins before Rex Harrison was finally chosen to reprise his Broadway role. This information was taken from www.imdb.com's trivia section of this movie.
Carlton. Col. Pickering: "Higgins!"
Prof. Higgins: "Where are you staying?"
Col. Pickering: "At the Carlton."
Also according to www.imdb.com's trivia section, because of the way Rex Harrison sang & talked during musical numbers, they were unable to prerecord them and have him lip sync so one of the first wireless microphones was rigged up and hidden under his tie.
27-A Wimpole Street. First time it's mentioned is when Higgins tells Colonel Pickering that he's not staying at the Carlton, but with him: "No, you're not. You're staying at 27-A Wimpole Street." That's how Eliza found out his address, she overheard him. The second time is when Eliza's father, Alfred, stops by her old place and the guy at the window tells him: "She wants her things sent over...to 27-A Wimpole Street, care of Professor Higgins." And the last time is when Col. Pickering is calling Scotland Yard to report Eliza missing.
| How much does Professor Higgins end up giving Alfred Doolittle, "one of the most original moralists in England"? | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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5 pounds. Alfred: "Just one good spree for meself and the missus, giving pleasure to ourselves and employment to others. And satisfaction to you to know it ain't been throwed away. You couldn't spend it better."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh, this is irresistible. Let's give him ten."
Alfred: "No. The missus wouldn't have the heart to spend ten, governor. Ten pounds is a lot of money. Makes a man feel prudent-like,
and then good-bye to happiness. No, you just give me what I ask, governor. Not a penny less, not a penny more."
| Professor Higgins tells Colonel Pickering during the visit by Alfred Doolittle that if they took him in hand in 3 months he could choose between a seat in the cabinet or a popular pulpit. Where was the popular pulpit in? | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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Wales. Prof. Higgins: "You know, Pickering, if we took this man in hand for three months, he could choose between a seat in the cabinet and a popular pulpit in Wales."
Gladys Cooper, who plays Mrs. Higgins (Henry Higgins' mother) in this film, played the same role in the 1963 Hallmark Hall of Fame television version of "Pygmalion", the play on which "My Fair Lady" was based. This is according to www.imdb.com's trivia section.
| Who does Professor Higgins tell Mrs. Pearce to write to to say "that if he wants a lecturer, to get in touch with Mr. Alfred P. Doolittle,a common dustman, but one of the most original moralists in England."? | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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Mr. Ezra Wallingford. Prof. Higgins: "Mrs. Pearce, write to Mr. Ezra Wallingford..."
Julie Andrews, who played Eliza on Broadway, was offered the role of Eliza, but Jack Warner refused to hire her when Andrews refused to do a screen test.
| Which group, according to Professor Higgins, when they learn English, have a tendency to not only drop the letter G but use it where it doesn't belong? | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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Slavs. Prof. Higgins: "Does the same thing hold true in India, Pickering? This peculiar habit of not only dropping a letter like the letter 'H,' but using it where it doesn't belong, like 'hever' instead of 'ever.' Why is it Slavs, when they learn English, have a tendency to do it with their 'G's? They say 'ling-er' instead of 'lin-ger'. Then they turn right around and say 'sin-ger' instead of 'sing-er'."
With blackest moss the flower pots were thickly crusted, one and all.. Prof. Higgins: "Now, I want you to read this, and I want you to enunciate every word...just as if the marbles were not in your mouth. 'With blackest moss, the flower pots...were thickly crusted, one and all.' Each word, clear as a bell."
Eliza: "With bla'est moss, the flower pots--I can't. I can't!"
Col. Pickering: "I say, Higgins, are those pebbles really necessary?"
| While Eliza is trying to say the phrase with the marbles in her mouth, Colonel Pickering asks Higgins if it's really necessary. Higgins answers that if they were necessary for ______________, then they're necessary for Eliza. For whom were they necessary? Fill in the blank with the correct answer. | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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Demosthenes. Prof. Higgins: "If they were necessary for Demosthenes, they are necessary for Eliza Doolittle. Go on, Eliza."
Eliza: "With bla'est moss, the flo'er pots...were thik'ly 'usted one and--"
Prof. Higgins: "I can't understand a word. Not a word!"
Eliza: "With bla'est moss, the flo'er pots...were thik'ly 'usted, one and 'ah."
Col. Pickering: "Higgins, perhaps that poem's a little too difficult for the girl. Why don't you try something simpler like 'The Owl and the Pussycat'? Oh-ho, yes, that's a charming one!"
Prof. Higgins: "Well, Pickering, I can't hear a word the girl is saying! What's the matter?"
Eliza: "I swallowed one."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh, it doesn't matter. I got plenty more."
3:00 a.m.. Eliza: "I'm so tired! I'm so tired!"
Col. Pickering: "For God's sake, Higgins, it must be 3:00 in the morning. Do be reasonable."
Prof. Higgins: "I am always reasonable. Eliza, if I can go on with a blistering headache, you can. I've got a headache too. Oh, here. I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish. Just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest
possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men...are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
| Professor Higgins asks "Where does one buy a lady's gown?" They need to get Eliza a gown because they're going to the Ascot Races. Where do they say you can get a lady's gown? | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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Whiteley's. Prof. Higgins: "Well, let's not buy her anything too flowery. I despise those gowns with sort of weeds here and weeds there. We ought to buy something sort of simple and modest and elegant, is what's called for, perhaps with a, with a bow. Yeah, I think that's just right."
| Professor Higgins' mother greets him at the Ascot Races and later says hello to Mrs. Eynsford-Hill and another couple. What was the proper name of the couple (Lord and Lady ____________)? | "My Fair Lady" Movie Details
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Boxington. Prof. Higgins: "I told Pickering we should've taken her with us. Oh, goodness! Ah!"
Mrs. Higgins: "Mrs. Eynsford-Hill."
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: "Good afternoon, Mrs. Higgins."
Mrs. Higgins: "You know my son, Henry."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh, how do you do?"
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: "I've seen you somewhere before."
Prof. Higgins: "I don't know. Oh, it doesn't matter. You better sit down."
Mrs. Higgins: "Lady Boxington."
Prof. Higgins: "Where the devil can they be?"
Mrs. Higgins: "Uh, Lord Boxington." Prof. Higgins: "Ah!"
Mrs. Higgins: "Colonel Pickering, you're just in time for tea."
Col. Pickering: "Thank you, Mrs. Higgins. May I introduce Miss Eliza Doolittle?"
Mrs. Higgins: "My dear Miss Doolittle."
Eliza: "How kind of you to let me come."
aunt. Eliza: "My aunt died of influenza, so they said, but it's my belief
they done the old woman in."
Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, despite Hepburn's lengthy preparation for the role.
6 weeks. Col. Pickering: "Do you realize what you've got to try and teach this poor girl within six weeks? You've got to teach her to walk,
talk, address a duke, a lord, a bishop, an ambassador. It's absolutely impo--Higgins, I'm trying to tell you that I want to call off the bet. I know you're a stubborn man, but so am I. This experiment is over, and nothing, short of an order from the King,
could force me to recant. Now, if you'll excuse me. You understand, Higgins? It's over! Higgins. Higgins!"
Yes. He drinks it in hiding right before they leave. According to www.imdb.com's trivia section, Julie Andrews was the first choice for the role of Eliza Doolittle, but Warner Brothers, who had paid $5.5 million for the rights to the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical, didn't want to risk having a stage actress in the central role of a $17-million film, despite lobbying from Lerner himself.
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