My Fair Lady

Introduction and comments following My Fair Lady, 1964, with with Leonard Maltin for TCM and guest Dr. Carla Hayden.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Fair Lady, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Fair Lady, 1964.

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The famous flower montage by director George Cukor, Andre Previn conducting the overture from the Lerner and Loewe score, opening My Fair Lady, 1964, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.

Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn, vocal by Marni Nixon) demonstrates her improved elocution to Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), Wilfrid Hyde-White as Col. Pickering, in the Lerner and Loewe classic, The Rain In Spain, in My Fair Lady, 1964.

After her successful London society debut, the now-refined street urchin Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) takes out her frustrations on her teacher Professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady 1964, George Cuko directing the Lerner-Loewe musical, from the George Bernard Shaw play.

Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle performs Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (vocal by Marni Nixon) early in the Best Picture-winning Lerner and Loewe musical, directed by George Cukor, My Fair Lady, 1964.