Product Details
- Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
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- Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: George Cukor
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- EAN: 9786304178355
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, THX, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6304178352
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- Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
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- Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Pictures
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures
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- Release Date: 1996-10-01
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- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1964-12-25
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- Title: My Fair Lady (digitally THX mastered)
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- UPC: 086162009747
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh
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