MY FAIR LADY (1964) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - George Cukor

Written by - Alan Jay Lerner (based on a play by George Bernard Shaw)

Starring - Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway

"From a master of the musical genre George Cukor comes a high class glamorous big screen adaptation of the celebrated George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion about an egotistical linguistic professor who bets with his friend he can turn a Cockney flower girl into a high society woman. The chemistry between Hepburn, wonderful as usual, and Harrison who gets to play the character he played so many times on the stage on the screen, is superb. The soundtrack marvellous. Cukor is often underrated as a master of a certain glamorous kind of cinema, but in this film his direction is superb, as he portrays the big lavish halls of formal parties to the decadent and poor streets of London in the most theatrical of ways. The costumes and art directions are splendid, and only occasionally is the pace slowed down by the musical numbers, perhaps too many, but the score is very memorable."

Musical, USA