Audrey Hepburn is really delicious, as do Rex Harrison. Frederick Loewe's music is beautiful, the movie is long. But, due to the charm of the two actors, it is being watched with pleasure.

There are many reasons to watch "My Fair Lady": It has incredible music. It is splendidly colorful. Audrey Hepburn is at her stylish best. What always draws me to this movie, though, is the incredible performance turned in by Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins. The journey of his character is the central block among-st which everything else coalesces around.For a basic plot summary, "My Fair Lady" is a grand experiment proposed by uber-bachelor Higgins (Harrison) and friend Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White). He bets Pickering that he can take lowly "gutter-snipe" Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) and turn her into a "lady" by primarily changing her phonetics.Like I said, there are numerous reasons to watch the film. Immediately after viewing, I purchased the soundtrack to add to my music collection, as it is that good. Watching in HD also allows the colorful nature of the film to really "pop". Women will also likely be captivated by the fashions and the contrast between what Eliza starts off as and who she becomes.As a "fellow" watching the film, however, I became more immersed in the journey of Professor Higgins than anything else. I personally have never seen Rex Harrison in any other movie, so to me every time I watch "My Fair Lady" he is 100% Higgins without bias. Whereas I was sometimes a bit confused with how we were supposed to understand Eliza's character, I could completely identify with Higgins (being male probably helps in this case). Without his performance, the experience of watching the film for me would have been a long, LONG three hours. With him in it, the time seems to fly by.I would also be remiss not to mention a sparkling performance from Stanley Holloway as Mr. Doolittle (Eliza's father). Though I can't exactly put my finger on what his character brings to the overall relationship dynamic of the movie, Holloway contributes some of the catchiest musical numbers of the entire experience.Overall, "My Fair Lady" is my favorite "sophisticated musical" to watch (only behind "Mary Poppins" in terms of musicals overall). Even though from the box art and trailer materials it looks more like a female-oriented production, it truly is not because of Harrison. A film that the whole family can enjoy, to be sure.

One of "my favorite movies", though it should have starred Julie Andrews who starred with Rex Harrison on Broadway. In a bit of Oscar irony, Ms. Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar playing Mary Poppins (1964) and Ms. Hepburn wasn't even nominated. Alan Jay Lerner's musical adaptation of Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion (1938) story.The film won 8 (out of 12 nominations) Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor for Harrison, and Best Director for George Cukor (his first, on his fifth and last nomination ... 31 years after Little Women (1933)). Gladys Cooper and the marvelous Stanley Holloway were nominated for their supporting roles. #91 on AFI's 100 Greatest Movies list. #12 on AFI's 100 Greatest Love Stories list. "I Could Have Danced All Night" is #17 on AFI's 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time. #8 on AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals list.Harrison plays the great, pompous linguist professor Henry Higgins, who says that the way one speaks reveals everything about them. He claims he can teach any ignorant street person to speak such that they could be passed off as royalty. A fellow linguist and newfound friend, Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), calls his bluff. So, Higgins chooses to undertake an unkempt, cockney-accented flower girl, Eliza Doolittle (Hepburn), to prove his boast and make his point. When he takes Eliza into his home, to live with him and the visiting Pickering, during the training period, her estranged and drunken father (Holloway) gets the wrong idea and wants a piece of the action. He "sells" his daughter to Higgins, who recommends the man to an associate as a true "moralist".Cooper plays Higgins' disapproving mother. Theodore Bikel plays a former student of the Professor's that becomes the ultimate test of his hypothesis. Jeremy Brett plays a gentleman lovestruck by his first encounter with Eliza. Mona Washbourne plays Higgins' live-in servant.

Henry hates women. He is a mama's boy.This show is about a woman, but Henry wants to snag all the applause. He is snotty to women of what he thinks is the lower class.Henry is old, but unmarried and childless. Who could live with him, anyway? Mama tries to set him straight, but he is too stubborn.Henry is an obnoxious, selfish misogynist. His life revolves around his bratty self. Pygmalion, indeed. Pulling the strings, eh? End of my rant about stupid Henry Higgins.Now on to my observations about lovely Audrey Hepburn. Her pink outfit and matching hat are just divine. Freddy is a really cute number. Eliza jumps all over the vegetable cart with such divine movement and timing. She is joyously happy to be alive.Eliza's white ball costume is just divine. Her hair updo is just scrumptious. She even convinces the Theodore Bikel character that she is real royalty (???). I think Eliza surprised Henry and Colonel Pickering more than they thought that she would. Their creation became super popular. Henry and Pickering who? Pickering was an actual gentleman, opposed to Henry who was a childish, spoiled brat.Final scene: Henry ordering Eliza around, to pick up his slippers. What a moron. Get them yourself, you stupid idiot. Whatsa matter? Mama not around to pick up after you? Get a life. Who would want to marry you, anyway? I still liked this movie. It is a family favorite, for eons. The flower girl did succeed in shoveling it to old Henry. She was capable of being out on her own now.From clothing, I would guess the time period would be around 1910-1912. World War One was just around the corner. Henry would have still been studying obscure dialects, lost in his goofy nitwit cloud of oblivious nonchalance.The singing and dancing: you know that they are my favorites. So what if some singing is dubbed. It is still a wonderful show. Some characters even talked-sang.Still a 10/10.