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Uniform Title My fair lady (Motion picture)
Title My fair lady [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by Jack L. Warner ; screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner ; directed by George Cukor.

Imprint Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004]

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  791.4372 M99f 2004  Disc 1    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  791.4372 M99f 2004  Disc 2    ---  Available
Edition Two-disc special ed.
Description 2 videodiscs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, Region 1, widescreen (2.20:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.
Language English or dubbed French dialogue, optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Cast Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom.
Credits Cinematographer, Harry Stradling ; art director, Gene Allen ; editor, William Ziegler ; music, Frederick Loewe ; costume designer, Cecil Beaton ; production designer, Cecil Beaton.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
Based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw.
Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary by art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon, and restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz; Disc 2: "More loverly than ever: the making of 'My fair lady' -- "Then and now"; "The production," all-new featurette on 1963 production-kickoff dinner; audio of George Cukor directing Baroness Bina Rothschild; Audrey Hepburn's alternate vocals for "Wouldn't it be loverly" and "Show me"; posters and lobby cards with Rex Harrison radio interview; "The fairest fair lady" making-of featurette; L.A. premiere footage; "Show me" galleries of black-and-white production stills, production documents, Cecil Beaton costume sketches, and architectural drawings; Rex Harrison's Golden Globe acceptance speech; 37th Academy Awards footage; testimonials from Martin Scorsese and Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lerner and Loewe trailers including Brigadoon ('54), Camelot ('67), Gigi ('58), My Fair Lady (original '64 and '94 re-release).
Summary Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
Audience MPAA rating: G.
Subject Linguistics teachers -- Drama.
Street vendors -- Drama.
English language -- Dialects -- Morphology -- Drama.
Speech and social status -- England -- Drama.
Flower vending -- Drama.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Film and video adaptations.
Linguistics teachers -- Drama.
English language -- Dialects -- Morphology -- Drama.
Flower vending -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Musical films.
Historical films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Warner, Jack L., 1892-1978. Producer.
Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986. Screenwriter. Lyricist.
Cukor, George, 1899-1983. Director.
Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988. Composer.
Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993. Actor.
Harrison, Rex.
Holloway, Stanley, 1890-1982.
Hyde-White, Wilfrid, 1903-1991.
Cooper, Gladys, 1888-1971. Actor.
Brett, Jeremy, 1933-1995. Actor.
Bikel, Theodore, 1924-2015.
Washbourne, Mona, 1903-1988. Actor.
Elsom, Isobel, 1893-1981. Actor.
Stradling, Harry, 1901-1970. Cinematographer.
Allen, Gene.
Ziegler, William, 1909-1977.
Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Pygmalion.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
Warner Home Video (Firm)
ISBN 079078534X
9780790785349
Standard No. 085392888528
Music No. 28885 Warner Home Video
Standard No. NZ1 8476172
AU@ 000025665262
AU@ 000025676278

 
    
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