My Fair Lady (1964)

A lot of these musicals on my list are actually very long. Tonight’s Genre-ary DailyView entry is My Fair Lady, which was almost three hours. It is also a iconic classic of musicals. A multiple Oscar winner, My Fair Lady was so much fun.

Phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) found a flower girl name Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) and made a bet that he could turn her into a cultured woman of class. 

Honestly, Henry Higgins was a horrible person. He was a jerk. I am not sure that he understood why he was such a jerk. His attitude toward Eliza was shameful at a point. 

I loved the music. ”I Could Have Danced All Night” is an iconic song and is so much fun. There were some songs that I thought could have been edited out, but they were all fun anyway.

Audrey Hepburn was absolutely brilliant as Eliza. She basically played two characters, with the way she was as the flower girl at the beginning and then the refined woman at the end. Every once in a while the flower girl showed up in the refined woman, and it was great.

This is one of those films that everybody should see at some point of their lives. It was really entertaining and fun.

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