| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Theodore Bikel |
Zoltan Karpathy
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| Jeremy Brett |
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
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| Gladys Cooper |
Mrs. Higgins
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| Rex Harrison |
Prof. Henry Higgins
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| Audrey Hepburn |
Eliza Doolittle
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| John Holland |
Butler
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| Stanley Holloway |
Alfred P. Doolittle
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| Wilfrid Hyde-White |
Col. Pickering
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| Mona Washbourne |
Mrs. Pearce
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| Gwendolyn Watts |
Cook
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Best Picture Oscar; Comedy; Family; Musical; Romance |
| Director |
George Cukor |
| Producer |
Jack Warner |
| Writer |
Alan Jay Lerner |
| Studio |
Warner Brothers |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
G (General Audience) |
| Running Time |
170 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
7.8 |
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| Plot |
The loverliest motion picture of them all!
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 |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 2.20:1 Color |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
085391666820 |
| Chapters |
50 |
| Release Date |
12/8/1998 |
| Subtitles |
English; French |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
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