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My fair lady / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; produced by Jack L. Warner ; screenplay, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner ; music by Frederick Loewe ; directed by George Cukor.
LIBRA DVD Judaica 215
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Pygmalion, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Film adaptations.
- Shaw, Bernard.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Man-woman relationships--England--London--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Speech and social status--England--London--Drama.
- Speech and social status.
- Social classes--England--London--Drama.
- Social classes.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Musicals.
- Video recordings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sheldon, Harvey (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009]
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Professor Higgins, a linguist, has to win the bet that any common Cockney girl, once taught to speak properly, can pass as a duchess in London society.
- Participant:
- Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde- White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Harry Stradling; editor, William Ziegler ; costume, scenery & production, Cecil Beaton ; choreography, Hermes Pan ; vocals, Marni Nixon ; conductor, André Previn.
- Notes:
- Based on the play by Bernard Shaw.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
- Special features: Length audio commentaries art director Gene Allan, singer Marni Nixon and restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz ; behind the scene documentary "The fairest fair lady" ; alternate Audrey Hepburn vocal versions of "Show me" and "Wouldn't it be laverly?" ; interactive menus, 4 theatrical trailers ; scene access.
- Academy Awards: Best picture and 7 other Oscars, 1964.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Harvey Sheldon.
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