My Fair Lady (Special Edition) [DVD] [1964] | ![My Fair Lady (Special Edition) [DVD] [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517qKdLM74L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: George Cukor
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Isobel Elsom, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde White, Gladys Cooper
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 529
Format: Anamorphic, Colour, PAL, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 165 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437110930
ASIN: B0029KQO2M
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
Release Date: September 14, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
Amazon.co.uk Review
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. Star wattage 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
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 have not had time to watch it yet. Have seen film many times. May 28, 2010
Ck Scott (East Sussex)
Its a great film and I look forward to watching this copy as it has much appreciated extras. I always thought it was a shame Aud never sang the songs they were mean not to let her. It would have been disatrous if they had done that to Julie Andrews in Sound of Music. Aud is one of my most fav stars.
 Not so fair..... May 1, 2010
Hobhood
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think the film version of this show is a comparative failure. Just listen to the original Broadway soundtrack recording and you'll see why. The tempi of musical numbers are that bit faster, which makes the whole thing go with the 'zip' originally intended. The film version replaces the original pungent and evocative orchestations with lush gush by Andre Previn.Listen to the 'music hall' style brass in Doolittle's numbers and you'll get an idea of what is missed in the film.
Harrison is older and his perfomance seems less committed in the film version. And lets face it - Audrey Hepburn cannot really act the feisty cockney with any kind of beleivability or conviction. Holloway is old enough to be her grandfather and lacks energy in his numbers.Some of the small part players look as though they've hardly been rehearsed. The exterior studio sets are awful - it's a great shame some real London exteriors could not have been used. And the interiors though striking, are again unconvincing. Higgins seems to live in a scaled down version of the British Library. And the choreography...I thought Hepburn was a trained dancer - why is she given such dull choreography here?
This is one of those films whose fame and original hype far outshines its actual quality. If you want the real My Fair Lady experience, see a good stage version, or buy the original stage recording.
 Down memory lane April 2, 2010
Mrs. L. Stephens (Wales)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for my 88yr old mother. She enjoyed the trip down memory alne
Marvellous March 28, 2010
M. Compton Sally
I love this story, I love the songs which I grew up with and also studied George Bernard Shaw's original version at school. Cecil Beaton's costumes for the Racing scene are always a joy to see. All together, first class, glamorous, amusing and fine actors.
 Not so Fair? March 11, 2010
Sou'Wester (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
That the film of "My Fair Lady" was (and still is) hugely popular is undeniable, but it has always left me feeling a little short-changed. My first reservation is that it has rather overshadowed George Bernard Shaw's brilliant original play on which the musical is based, and the songs, although some are memorable, actually get in the way of the narrative. My biggest gripe, however, is with "dubbing", where Audrey Hepburn mimes her songs to a soundtrack recorded by a totally different artist off-screen. It was quite common practice on Hollywood musicals in the past (the film of "West Side Story" being a particularly notorious offender) and it always strikes me as a con. You would feel pretty miffed if you went to a stage musical and found the principal performers couldn't sing and I don't see why films should be any different. If the studio didn't think Audrey Hepburn's singing voice was up to the job they should have found somebody else; this was particularly galling at the time the film was made, as they rejected Julie Andrews who had pretty much made the part her own in the stage version. And no matter how good the actor/actress, it never looks convincing when they mime to someone else singing. Apart from this, although Miss Hepburn performs well in the second part of the film after Eliza has been groomed by Higgins, she struggles to convince as the Covent Garden gutter snipe: it isn't just the dodgy accent, she is just too dainty and the film itself in this section has a rather phony East End character, as pictured in Hollywood's imagination rather than any reality.
Don't get me wrong - this is not a bad film and at least it is a proper musical (rather than a collection of old pop songs carelessly glued together with the flimsiest of story lines, as seems to be the fashion these days) but I don't regard the film version as the classic that other reviewers perceive.
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