Plot
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Cast
as Henry Higgins
as Eliza Doolittle
as Alfred Doolittle
as Mrs. Higgins
as Colonel George Pickering
as Mrs. Pearce
as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
as Clara Eynsford-Hill
as Count Aristid Karpathy
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Reviews
Even though it was made some 25 years, or so, before "My Fair Lady" it still takes a few minutes before you get used to the fact that it has no singing... Once that has been established, we can enjoy a witty and pithy observation of class and superficiality that raises both smiles and heckles in equal measure. Leslie Howard is great as the somewhat snobbish phonetics expert ("Prof. Higgins") who …