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. They decide to pin the blame on the unsuspecting maid, whom Clouseau becomes infatuated with, and forces the perpetrators to attempt to disappear, and due to a mistake, they do - permanently. Katz were brought in to physically restore the film. Due to a complex network of affairs between the various people in the house, they begin murdering people, eventually raising the count to four. Harris and James C. Ballon is the millionaire at whose house the initial murder takes place. Film restorers Robert A. Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders).

In the 1990s, the original film elements had fallen into disrepair from heavy printing and were feared in danger of total deterioration. Clouseau, suspecting murderers were trying to kill him, ordered a "training program" with Cato, telling him to attack "wherever and whenever I least expect it." This becomes a running gag throughout the films, as Cato chooses to attack his boss at the worst possible times. 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. Cato is Clouseau's servant, trained in the martial arts. 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). Cato (Burt Kwouk). At the very least, she could actually sing, in contrast to Harrison, whose songs were mostly recitative. Sometimes he goes back to his old job, but once he went completely nuts, attempting to take over the world just to kill Clouseau.

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. When he was asked to read the Inspector's eulogy (written by someone who actually liked him), he couldn't keep himself from laughing. 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. Dreyfus is consigned to an asylum several times. 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 slowly goes mad throughout the film, leading to the end, where he repeatedly attempts to kill him. Julie Andrews in fact became a screen star in her own right that same year in Mary Poppins. Dreyfus is Clouseau's boss, first seen in A Shot in the Dark.

Opera singer Marni Nixon was cast to dub Hepburn's songs. Commissioner Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom). Hepburn was cast, despite lobbying from Lerner, because Warner Brothers didn't want to cast a stage actress. Clouseau constantly causes his bosses pain, and in one case, drives one particular superior insane several times throughout the course of the films. The lead role in the film was originally intended for Julie Andrews, who played Eliza in the stage version. Clouseau is the bumbling detective of the Pink Panther films, with a stereotypical French accent and an incredibly clumsy manner. It won Cukor an Academy Award for Directing, and ranked #91 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies. Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers).

The film was directed by George Cukor, and starred Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway. As the Inspector continues to screw up, he slowly drives his boss mad. Eventually, Dreyfus starts gunning for him, leading to an (literally) explosive finale. The stage musical was later made into a musical film, released in 1964 by Warner Bros. Clouseau always manages to be at the wrong place at the right time, including a scene in a nudist colony. Harrison and Holloway reprised their roles in the film version, while Andrews was replaced by Audrey Hepburn and Robert Coote by Wilfrid Hyde-White. As the real culprits attempt to keep everything away from Clouseau's boss Commissioner Dreyfus, they must commit even more murders to cover up. A contemporary version of the Pygmalion motif can be found in Willy Russell's play Educating Rita (1980). As all evidence points to a beautiful maid, a love-struck Clouseau stubbornly refuses to admit that she is guilty.

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. Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of a Paris plutocrat to solve a murder mystery. Higgins' ungrateful treatment of her after this success leads Eliza to walk out on him, leaving the seemingly clueless Higgins mystified by her ungratefulness. The film was released only a few months after the first Clouseau film, The Pink Panther. 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. As Blake Edwards and future The Exorcist creator William Peter Blatty began work on the script, they decided to insert the character of Clouseau into the proceedings. 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!". The film was not originally written to include Clouseau, but rather to be an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz, which in turn was based upon the play L'Idiot by Marcel Achard.

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. Elke Sommer plays the attractive Maria Gambrelli. 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. The film also introduces Herbert Lom as his boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk as his long-suffering servant, Cato, who would both become series regulars. 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!"). Clouseau's bumbling personality is unchanged, but it was only in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to become a hallmark of the character. Eliza's father, a dustman, arrives weeks later to reclaim his daughter, or at least some compensation for her loss and is paid off. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Surete.

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. A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment in the Pink Panther series. 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. 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. 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.

Moss Hart directed the musical, Cecil Beaton designed the costumes, and Hanya Holm choreographed. It opened in London on 30th April 1958 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and ran for 2281 performances. It ran for 2717 performances, a Broadway record at the time. The stage musical first opened on March 15, 1956 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City.

in 1964. It was also made into a film by Warner Bros. 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. 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?".