Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society | Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway leave their defining performances of Higgins and Doolittle for us to enjoy, the supporting cast are fine - Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Mona Washbourne, Theodore Bikel and the incomparable Wilfred Hyde-White |
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But Marni Nixon's singing in the film is superb | Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill Jeremy Brett |
His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle Audrey Hepburn , who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects | the cream of the 1960s |
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Audrey Hepburn looks the part | Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society |
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