r Classic musical, based on Pygmalion, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
Henry Higgins , a professor of phonetics, bets his friend,
Colonel Hugh Pickering , that he can train a cockney flower girl and successfully introduce her as a lady at any social gathering. The girl, Eliza Doolittle , initially refutes the idea, but then later turns up at Higgins's house demanding to be taught.
Director George Cukor (1964, U)
Films: pp 62-68 *****