My Fair Lady [Blu-ray]
Hollywood’s legendary “woman’s director,” George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Tale), 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 Honest 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 facility nearly too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pomp 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 fantastic songs as “On the Street Everywhere You Live” and “I Could Have Danced All Night.” Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is reasonably electric as Eliza’s determined suitor. –Tom Keogh
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