from Warner Bros.
Directed by
George
Cukor
Starring
Audrey
Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle)
Rex
Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins)
Stanley
Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle)
Wilfrid
Hyde-White (Colonel Hugh Pickering)
Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins)
Jeremy Brett (Freddie Eynsford-Hill)
Theodore Bikel (Zoltan Karpathy)
Mona Washbourne (Mrs. Pearce)
Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill)
John Alderson (Jamie)
Lois Battle (Second Maid)
Marjorie Bennett (Cockney with Pipe)
Oscar Beregi Jr. (Greek Ambassador)
Betty Blythe (Lady at Ball)
Iris Bristol (Flower Girl)
Buddy Bryant (Prince)
Walter Burke (Main Bystander)
Jennifer Crier (Mrs. Higgins' Maid)
Maurice Dallimore (Selsey Man)
Henry Daniell (Prince Gregor of Transylvania)
Roy Dean (Footman)
Brendan Dillon (Leading Man)
Kai Farelli (Juggler)
Charles E. Fredericks (King)
Ayllene Gibbons (Fat Woman at Pub)
Jack Greening (George)
Beatrice Grenough (Grans Lady)
Clive Halliday (Costermonger)
Sam Harris (Guest at Ball)
Eric Heath (Costermonger)
Eugene Hoffman (Juggler)
John Holland (Butler)
Lillian Kemble-Cooper (Lady Ambassador)
Alma Lawton (Flower Girl)
Queenie Leonard (Cockney Bystander)
Moyna MacGill (Lady Boxington)
Laurie Main (Hoston Man)
Owen McGiveney (Man at Coffee Stand)
John McLiam (Harry)
Alan Napier (Ambassador)
Marni Nixon (Eliza Doolittle (singing voice))
James O'Hara (Costermonger)
Richard Peel (Costermonger)
Barbara Pepper (Doolittle's Dance Partner)
Olive Reeves-Smith (Mrs. Hopkins)
Dinah Ann Rogers (First Maid)
Victor Rogers (Policeman)
Baroness Rothschild (Queen of Transylvania)
Miriam Schiller (Landlady)
Bill Shirley (Freddie (singing voice))
Jacqueline Squire (Parlor Maid)
Michael St. Clair (Bartender)
Geoffrey Steele (Taxi Driver)
Grady Sutton (Ascot Extra/Guest at Ball)
Gwendolyn Watts (Cook)
Ron Whelan (Algernon/Bartender)
Ben Wright (Footman at Ball)
Ben Wrigley (Costermonger)
Written by
Alan Jay Lerner
George
Bernard Shaw (play Pygmalion)
Rated: 
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 An insufferably arrogant
linguist, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), bets a colleague
that he can transform a flower-selling Cockney guttersnipe into
a regal lady. His quarry, the irrepressible Eliza Doolittle (Audrey
Hepburn), accepts his offer for diction lessons in good faith,
hoping to improve her station with a career as a shopgirl. After
her smashing society debut at the Ascot races, she witnesses
Higgins in a self-congratulatory moment and stalks out in a rage,
causing him to finally recognize that he's fallen in love with
his creation and can't live without her. This quintessential
musical from Lerner and Loewe was based on the 1913 play "Pygmalion"
by George Bernard Shaw. Academy Award® Nominations: 12, including
Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy Awards®: 8, including
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Rex Harrison.
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