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Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady

BBC One
on BBC One London

Also starring Audrey Hepburn.

In tribute to Sir Rex Harrison who died earlier this month BBC tv screens his superb Oscar-winning performance as Professor Henry Higgins in Lerner and Loewe's enchanting musical version of Shaw's play Pygmalion. Henry Higgins, famous professor of phonetics, boasts to his friend Pickering that he could teach a Cockney flower girl to speak like a Duchess. The next morning Eliza Doolittle arrives on his doorstep, demanding to be taught.

Marni Nixon sings the role of Eliza.

Films: pages 19-24
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Director:
George Cukor
Professor Henry Higgins:
Rex Harrison
Eliza Doolittle:
Audrey Hepburn
[The role of Eliza sung by:
Marni Nixon]
Alfred Doolittle:
Stanley Holloway
Colonel Pickering:
Wilfrid Hyde White
Mrs Higgins:
Gladys Cooper
Freddie:
Jeremy Brett
Zoltan Karpathy:
Theodore Bikel
Mrs Pearce:
Mona Washbourne
Mrs Eynsford-Hill:
Isobel Elsom
Butler:
John Holland
Source: Radio Times

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