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My Fair Lady (80th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1964]

My Fair Lady (80th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1964]
Directed by George Cukor

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #616 in DVD
  • Released on: 2009-09-14
  • Rating: Universal, suitable for all
  • Formats: Box set, PAL
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Running time: 165 minutes

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Special Features
This 2-disc special edition comes with a host of extra features:

  • Audio commentary from art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon and restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz
  • Comments from Martin Scorsese and Andrew Lloyd-Webber
  • Image galleries: black & white production stills, production documents, architectural drawings and costume sketches from Oscar-winner Cecil Beaton
  • 'More Loverly Than Ever - The Making of My Fair Lady': an all-new documentary (60 mins)
  • 'The Fairest Fair Lady': a 'making of' featurette
  • Audrey Hepburn's alternative vocals for "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Show Me"
  • Production footage from 1963
  • Footage from the Los Angeles premiere
  • Footage from the 37th Oscar ceremony and Rex Harrison's Golden Globe acceptance speech

Synopsis
A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton's lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe's winning score became the background for George Cukor's striking mix of styles that ranged from the fantastic to the abstract in his telling of the tale of a waif who's educated into being a lady. Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins (Oscar-winning Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in time for an important society ball. His gamble could pay off--but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can't live without her. The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director.


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A true classic!5
You simply got to love this musical! Not only becourse of the wonderful songs, but also becourse of the sparkles between Mr. Higgins and Eliza. It's such a wonderful movie that will leave you with a happy feeling inside :-)