My Fair Lady

Their work was a success, preserving this well-loved film for future generations, and a 30th anniversary re-issue in 1994 reinforced the film's popularity. Won none. Katz were brought in to physically restore the film. 4 nominations for Academy Awards in 1939 including Best Picture, Best Actress in a leading role, best Original Story and best Screenplay. Harris and James C. Remade as Silk Stockings in 1957, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Film restorers Robert A. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

In the 1990s, the original film elements had fallen into disrepair from heavy printing and were feared in danger of total deterioration. Released in 1939 in the United States, the movie was released during World War II in Europe, where it became a great success. When Warners bought the film rights for the then-unprecedented sum of $5 million, it was agreed that the rights to the film would revert to CBS seven years after its release. It depicts the Soviet system as rigid and gray, comparing it to the free and sunny Parisian society. The film's copyright is owned by CBS, as the head of that company put up the money for the original Broadway production in exchange for the rights to the cast album (through Columbia Records). It is one of the first American movies which, under cover of humorous light romance, overtly criticizes the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. At the very least, she could actually sing, in contrast to Harrison, whose songs were mostly recitative. Launched with the tagline "Garbo Laughs!", Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first comedy, and her next to last film.

Film of some of Hepburn's original vocal performances for the film was released in the 1990s, and many fans of the actress believe that it was unnecessary for her voice to be dubbed. Rigid and stern at first, she slowly becomes enticed to the West by Count d'Algout who has fallen in love with her. Andrews' subsequent Academy Award nomination for Mary Poppins, which she won - and lack of a nomination for Hepburn - was seen by many as vindication for Julie Andrews, though both actresses denied that there was ever any animosity between them. The Soviet Union then sends Nina Yakushova, a special envoy whose goal is to go through with the jewelry sale and bring back the three men. The controversy over the casting damaged Hepburn's career, painting her in a negative light (although Elizabeth Taylor reportedly fought long and hard for the role as well). He corrupts them and talks them into staying in Paris. Julie Andrews in fact became a screen star in her own right that same year in Mary Poppins. Upon arrival, they meet Count Leon d'Algout, on a mission from the Russian Grand Duchess Swana who wants to retrieve her jewelry before it is sold.

Opera singer Marni Nixon was cast to dub Hepburn's songs. Three Russians, Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, are sent to Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution. Hepburn was cast, despite lobbying from Lerner, because Warner Brothers didn't want to cast a stage actress. Ninotchka is a 1939 American film by Ernst Lubitsch. The lead role in the film was originally intended for Julie Andrews, who played Eliza in the stage version. Length: 110 minutes. It won Cukor an Academy Award for Directing, and ranked #91 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies. Color: black and white.

The film was directed by George Cukor, and starred Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway. Genre: comedy. The stage musical was later made into a musical film, released in 1964 by Warner Bros. Country: United States. Harrison and Holloway reprised their roles in the film version, while Andrews was replaced by Audrey Hepburn and Robert Coote by Wilfrid Hyde-White. Released: November 9, 1939. A contemporary version of the Pygmalion motif can be found in Willy Russell's play Educating Rita (1980). Set decoration: Edwin B. Willis.

The ending of the musical was subtly changed from that of the play, in order to please audiences by a suggestion of budding romance between Eliza and Higgins. Editing: Gene Ruggiero. Higgins' ungrateful treatment of her after this success leads Eliza to walk out on him, leaving the seemingly clueless Higgins mystified by her ungratefulness. Costumes: Adrian. The bet depends on Eliza passing as a gentlewoman at the 'embassy ball', which she does successfully despite the presence of a Hungarian phonetics expert at the ball who is completely taken in. Make-up: Jack Dawn. Higgins, who dislikes the pretentiousness of these upper class people, partly conceals a grin behind his hand, as if to convey the message to the audience, "I wish I had said that!". Heymann.

Higgins takes her on her first public appearance at Ascot Racecourse where she makes a good impression with her polite manners only to shock everyone by a sudden and vulgar lapse into cockney. Original Music: Werner R. At first Eliza makes no progress but just as she thinks the idea is hopeless she tries one more time, suddenly "gets it", and begins to talk with an impeccable upper class English accent. Daniels. Higgins is impressed by the man's genuineness and natural gift for language, contrasting with his total lack of moral values ("Can't afford 'em!"). Cinematography: William H. Eliza's father, a dustman, arrives weeks later to reclaim his daughter, or at least some compensation for her loss and is paid off. Production : Ernst Lubitsch, Sidney Franklin.

A wager is made with Colonel Pickering that Higgins cannot achieve this and he takes her on as a challenge of his skills free of charge. Screenplay: Melchior Lengyel, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder et Walter Reisch. Eliza finds her way to the professor's house and offers to pay the professor to give her elocution lessons so that she can get a better job. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Henry Higgins, an arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics, finds an impoverished young woman, Eliza Doolittle, selling flowers, and boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering, that he can train her to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess. Title : Ninotchka. The original Playbill and original cast album included art by Al Hirschfeld, which depicted Eliza Doolittle as a marionette being manipulated by Henry Higgins, whose own strings are being pulled by a heavenly puppeteer who looks like George Bernard Shaw. Tamara Shayne : Anna, Ninotchka's roomate in Moscow.

Moss Hart directed the musical, Cecil Beaton designed the costumes, and Hanya Holm choreographed. Bela Lugosi : Commissar Razinin. It opened in London on 30th April 1958 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and ran for 2281 performances. Alexander Granach : Kopalski. It ran for 2717 performances, a Broadway record at the time. Félix Bressart : Buljanoff. The stage musical first opened on March 15, 1956 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. Sig Ruman : Michael Simonavich Iranoff.

in 1964. Ina Claire : Grand Duchess Swana. It was also made into a film by Warner Bros. Melvyn Douglas : Comte Léon d'Algout. My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederic Loewe, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Greta Garbo : Nina Ivanovna Yakushova, aka Ninotchka. Robert Coote as Colonel Pickering.

Doolittle. Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle. Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins.

"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face". "Without You". "A Hymn to Him". "Get Me to the Church On Time".

"Show Me". "You Did It". "On the Street Where You Live". "Ascot Gavotte".

"I Could Have Danced All Night". "The Rain in Spain". "Just You Wait". "The Servants' Chorus".

"I'm an Ordinary Man". "With a Little Bit of Luck". "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?". "Why Can't the English?".