Audrey Hepburn is COMEDY GOLD! - My Fair Lady REACTION

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[@serendipity191]

The reason the singing voice is a little different is because Audrey Hepburn was dubbed by the famous “ ghost voice” Marnie Nixon. Audrey thought they were going to use her voice but producers decided it it wasn’t strong enough and decided to dub her ( it’s estimated about 10% is Audrey) . Dubbed or not it’s an iconic performance. Fun fact Julie Andrews originated the role on stage but it was thought she didn’t have enough film experience at the time ( she won the academy award for Mary Poppins that year) .

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

If you really want to hear the difference between Marni and Audrey, it is perhaps most evident in "Just You Wait." The entire opening of the song is Audrey. Marni's voice comes in at "One day I'll be famous ... " and she sings the rest.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

@@oliverbrownlow5615 Dang, so they basically did a Jeremy Irons/Jim Cummings. *"YOU WON'T GET A SNIFF WITHOUT ME!!!*

[@tommiller4895]

The Special Edition DVD set has 2 soundtracks, one with Audrey Hepburn only (including Audrey singing) and the other with Marnie Nixon (the theater version). Audrey isn't Marnie Nixon but I liked her version just as much.

[@HuntingViolets]

Nowadays, they often try to cast someone who isn't so classically trained for characters who wouldn't be. Like Sally Bowles, for instance. Interesting.

[@Leamichellefan2244]

Exactly exactly and I have nothing against Marnie. I think she’s amazing. I love her work, but if they had just cast Julie Andrews and gotten off their high horse then they wouldn’t have had to ask miss Nixon to come in and do what Audrey clearly could not do.

[@elizabethduplat5998]

Roman Holiday is Audrey's very first movie and she's amazing in it.

[@simondesbiens2463]

She freaking won the Oscar for it

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

Gregoty Peck insisted she got equal billing with him for that one.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

It may relieve a little of your distress about the ending to know that George Bernard Shaw, the author of *Pygmalion* (the original 1913 non-musical play that *My Fair Lady* was based on), wrote a concluding essay revealing that Eliza married Freddy. *My Fair Lady* was indeed a play -- a huge long-running hit on Broadway, opening in 1956, starring Julie Andrews as Eliza opposite Rex Harrison as Higgins. The story is set in Edwardian London (1901-1910). The King depicted in Eliza's revenge fantasy ("Just You Wait") is unmistakably Edward VII.

[@KSilverlode]

Yes, the people who adapted it into musical form felt the audience wanted a traditional "happy" ending. It's unfortunate that it tends to undermine the whole intent of the show, which was to point out the flaws and hypocrisy of people with Higgins' mindset and show that social class doesn't create worth. It's frustrating that the show seems to handwave it away for the sake of a romantic trope which requires the leads to always get together in the end.

[@paintedjaguar]

@@KSilverlode I think if one looks deeper, there's actually more to it than just a traditional "happy ending" -- and I actually like it better than Shaw's take. There are two key things to pick up on... first, Higgins' earlier defensive remark that he treats every one the same regardless of their class or breeding. Treats them badly perhaps, but the same, and this is because he refuses to abide by the social conventions that smooth people's interactions. Secondly, there is Eliza's feeling that she's now caught between two worlds and her true self doesn't belong in either, leaving her no place to be. If she just wants acceptance due to surface appearances, she can get that from Freddy, who will adore her but might never have a clue who she really is underneath. On the other hand, Higgins' attitude towards her is the same both before and after her makeover and only changes when she stands up to him, which makes him admire her in addition to his admission that he misses just having her around. This demonstrates that even if he won't change his basic personality, he IS capable of some self reflection and of seeing her as her own person. He might not understand her, but at least he's aware of that. In the end, this could be the basis for a companionable relationship. Despite audience assumptions, the movie leaves it open whether this relationship could ever be more than that. Anyway that's how I like to think of that confusing ending, and I believe it's a defensible take.

[@tcshack701]

The dad having money and getting married at the end was a tragedy to him. The term more money more problems applies in his situation.

[@bbferreira78]

Even today Royal Ascot is all about the crazy hats

[@victorsixtythree]

A bit about the ending - The musical "My Fair Lady" (both the movie and the stage musical) is based on the 1913 stage play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. I believe the original stage play ended with Eliza still planning to leave Higgins behind and marry Freddy. A lot of audiences wished for a "happy ending" and Shaw even felt the need to include a "What Happened Afterwards" postscript to later printed editions of his play explaining why Eliza and Higgins could not end up together. A 1938 movie version of the play added the scene of Eliza returning to Higgins at the end and "My Fair Lady" held onto that ending.

[@marii_lilmonsta]

Thank you for sharing this

[@claremanion6523]

Oh my goodness - thank you for reacting to this. My parents had a VHS copy of this movie and as a kid, I watched it so many times... to the point where I would put on my Mom's apron and lug around an old basket while singing "oh wooooooouldn't it be love-er-ly!" at the top of my lungs. Lol. I was 7 at most 😄

[@jessicaasakevich2264]

Literally, same. Except I repeatedly borrowed a family friend's double VHS for years lol. With their permission, of course. The weekend double feature of My Fair Lady and Sound of Music ate up a lot of weekends for this only child 😅

[@cmcculloch1]

fun fact Rex Harrisons voice was the inspirations for Stewie on Family Guy

[@AdamfromFWCI]

Yes! I realised this after the edit, thats why Family Guy did a whole My Fair Lady episode apparently

[@garymarshall4447]

The actor playing Freddie is Jeremy Brett, he is more famous for portraying Sherlock Holmes on Granada TV series filmed in the 80's & 90's. To many he is considered to be the best Sherlock, me included, He also admitted that his voice was also dubbed for this movie.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

I believe Jeremy Brett actually had a decent singing voice, but nevertheless he was dubbed by Bill Shirley, also known as the singing voice of Prince Phillip in Disney's *Sleeping Beauty* (1959).

[@fayesouthall6604]

@@oliverbrownlow5615that’s right.

[@melenatorr]

Karpathy is played by Theodore Bikel, a veteran of Yiddish theater. He originated the role of Captain von Trapp in the Broadway production of "Sound of Music". On Passover, he would take to the radio waves for a program of education and music, something I always looked forward to.

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

She accepted the role, and only after she signed she was told her singing would be dubbed. She did the scenes and refused to mime to their chosen singer, so they got the singer to work to her scenes.

[@tommiller4895]

Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza. When they decided to make a movie of the Stage Musical they didn't feel that Julie had the name recognition (this was before Mary Poppins and Sound of Music). So the role went to Audrey Hepburn. Julie was then free to film Mary Poppins which won her an Oscar and made her famous.

[@peterjobovic3406]

Eliza didn't need to completely humble his pride because she loved him and saw that he loved her too, hence the ending.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

3:07 Funny you mention that, given Eliza was played by Julie Andrews (a.k.a. Mary Poppins) in the original stage show.

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

Audrey grew too tall for ballet, nearly died from starvation when the Netherands was occupied in the war. She had ongoing health poblems from that for life. One of her favourite movies, was Paris when it sizzles. I really like How to Make a Million. One of her later roles, cameo was in Always, with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss.

[@angelagraves865]

Two Audrey Hepburn movies worth watching are Charade, a suspense/thriller/romance, and Wait Until Dark, in which she plays a recently blinded woman who is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.

[@theirishslyeyes]

I'm hhheeeeeerrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee for it!! Audrey Hepburn is amazing! Her and Doris Day are my favorite actresses from back in the day, so talented! "Pillow Talk" is my favorite Doris Day movie....another great old movie is, "It's a Wonderful Life" (Christmas movie). The casual insults that Higgins throws around are just amazing 😀 "Why Can't the English?" is probably one of my all time favorite songs, of any genre (I was an English major, and my mom was a 30+ year English teacher 🤣🤣🤣🤣)

[@AdamfromFWCI]

GAAAARN!!!!!

[@theirishslyeyes]

@@AdamfromFWCI Lol

[@Dej24601]

My Fair Lady was one of the most popular, beloved and long-running musicals in American theatre. The song (and dance) numbers were the scenes most eagerly anticipated. It grew out of the 1938 film “Pygmalion” (not a musical) based on Shaw’s 1913 play “Pygmalion.” My Fair Lady is set in the Edwardian times - early 1900’s. Director George Cukor, pronounced Q-ker, was one of Hollywood’s premier directors in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s. He directed a lot of classic films starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

[@garymarshall4447]

One of his best movies is The Philadelphia Story(1940) starring Hepburn, Grant and Jimmy Stewart, a classic and still one of my favourites.

[@jeandoten1510]

@@garymarshall4447 Philadelphia Story stars Katherine Hepburn

[@vpheas]

Two stories. A friend of mine told me her dad was offered opening night tickets for the musical version of My Fair Lady. He said no, because he thought no one could make a musical version of Pygmalion. Story #2. A woman asked me where I thought her husband was from. I thought a little bit, and I gave her an intersection more than 3500 km from where we were. I had never been to that intersection. But she told me her husband had grown up less than a block from the intersection I had identified.

[@frndofbear]

I had that happen once. A bag boy in Kentucky had a puffy face that I had only seen before in Cincinnati. I asked him how long he'd lived there. Amazed, he said four years. LOL.

[@CoynieReads]

The ending is all about how you stage and act it. In the recent Broadway version Eliza is giving Higgins one last chance to behave properly and when all he says is “where the devil are my slippers” she leaves him. When my amateur dramatic society did it she stayed and they danced out the last of the music but because our Higgins acted those lines with so much remorse, and was so emotional it was like he didn’t know what else to say. Can’t say I love the film ending as a result, Rex Harrison’s Higgins is just much too smug to have her back.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

The truth is that the ending is much more of an open scene than people give it credit for. You can imagine it means Eliza is staying with Higgins, or you can imagine she stopped by the house to pick up some forgotten item, heard the recording playing and couldn't resist coming in to make a little joke, but will depart again immediately. And as you say, it can be played a number of different ways, and increasingly has been re-interpreted in new productions.

[@sharpaycutie2]

I don’t think he was smug but he was clearly attempting to hide his joy to some degree but he clearly loves her just as much I would rewrote the scen to have her walk up to him more and put her hand on his shoulder and him react and stand up and they gaze and ….boom kiss 😘

[@sylvanaire]

Under no circumstances would I want Eliza and Professor Higgins to end up together as a couple. Freddy isn’t a much better choice for her, but I prefer him to Henry Higgins, lol. She probably will end up supporting him, but she’s worked all her life, she knows how to work , and she doesn’t mind it. At least he will appreciate her as Higgins never would. And that’s my two cents!😅

[@HuntingViolets]

@@oliverbrownlow5615 Yes, I always take Shaw's take that Eliza marries Freddy although she remains in Higgins' life. She also opens a flower shop. :)

[@melenatorr]

Higgins mother is veteran stage and screen actress Gladys Cooper. Though she specialized in playing nasty mothers, in real life she seems to have been a lovely person. This movie was my introduction to her, and as mothers go, she's pretty perceptive here. I've always liked her. You can see her in a very different role in a "Twilight Zone" episode "Nothing in the Dark", costarring a young Robert Redford. She has a strong role opposing Bette Davis in "Now, Voyager".

[@MusicalJackknife]

I'm shocked that of all the songs, you only recognized "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," which is one of the ones I never remembered. Not "I'm Getting Married in the Morning," "On the Street Where You Live," or "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," which I think are much more well-known culturally.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

In his memoir, *On the Street Where I Live* (1978), Alan Jay Lerner said that "On the Street Where You Live" was the initial hit from the show, but was later eclipsed by "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face." I was surprised that our reactor disliked "I Could Have Danced All Night," which was very popular as well, especially since he liked most of Eliza's other songs. The whole score was popular, though. The Original Broadway Cast Album reached #1 on the Billboard chart.

[@MusicalJackknife]

@@oliverbrownlow5615 THAT's the other one I knew was popular but I couldn't think of while writing the comment haha

[@promisemochi]

also i never really minded the ending. the whole film is about her growth. she started out with everyone walking all over her - society ,her father, higgins. but she learns throughout the film what she wants and how to voice it. i don't for one second believe she'd put up with any of higgins usual crap he might try lol and i think the line "where the devil are my slippers" was said more playfully than anything else. but i definitely think if this were made today (oh gosh no...i can't imagine any one else playing these characters on screen) i'd definitely need to see more growth from higgins. i'm a sucker for romance and i need to see some of that from his end and genuine growth and change. but i definitely think she can match him and challenge him and make him rise to the occasion. i just wish we saw more change from his end. but alas....the music though is some of my favorite! also sorry for this comment getting way too long and out of hand but i also want to reccomend real quick the movie auntie mame. i think you'd have a blast with it and it's so underrated. it's such a fun, heart-felt film that's had such a big piece of my heart since i was a child. definitely 10/10 reccomend.

[@im-gi2pg]

Sherlock Holmes Jeremy Brett is the adoring young man.

[@SDoesNotKnow]

Your reaction and utter disdain for Higgins makes me think of this hilarious quote from the show Frasier where he goes on and on about saving a woman and showing her the way and he was becoming increasingly misogynistic about it. His brother Niles responds that he put the “pig” in Pygmalion. 😆. Personally, I love this movie because there’s so much social commentary and the characters were not only representations of the class system entrenched in England during this period, but the writing is so cutting and yet brilliant that the characters become three dimensional. Lerner and Lowe who adapted George Bernard Shaw’s famous play, Pygmalion into My Fair Lady did such a respectful and yet masterful job. The musical’s added songs just add more depth of feeling to it. However, I agree with you about the ending and most modern audiences will agree with you. To understand why the ending changed from the play’s ending but not too obviously romantic was due to two things. First, the romantic ending fit the sensibilities at the time (mid-1950s Broadway audiences that carried over to even today to some degree). In fact, even before the 1950s, the actors who performed the original Shaw play did what they could to make it seem like Eliza and Higgins got together at the end without changing a word of George Bernard Shaw’s text because the audience was clamoring for them to get together as did the actors. The audience reaction wanting Higgins and Eliza together incensed George Bernard Shaw so much that he ended up writing a epilogue that made it clear Eliza married Freddy and detailed their life and Higgins and Pickering’s continued role in it. The reason audience reaction made Shaw so angry was because Shaw was an early 20th century socialist and wrote Pygmalion to critique the class system and how it places all these institutional chains to everybody, including gender roles. He wanted audiences to applaud Eliza’s independence and empowerment. However, what the audiences wanted was a love story, and that irked him so much. 😂 As for Alfred Doolittle, Roger Ebert also mentioned that if this movie had been made in the 90s or 2000s, they would have cut him but Ebert was glad this film adaptation of the Broadway musical kept him in. Alfred’s purpose was to skewer and make fun of middle class social conventions while also showing how some of the downtrodden class will find a way to exploit their situation and do what they can to avoid responsibility that comes with social mobility. He had some of the most hilarious social commentary with his dialogue. I saw the 2018 Broadway revival at Lincoln Center and they dealt with the ending by not having Higgins soften his line deliveries throughout the show to where we sort of felt just how impactful and hurtful he was to Eliza. That last line was not delivered in the Rex Harrison charming way like in the movie but rather in a very harsh, demanding way but with utter confusion and even desperation. The show then paused, Eliza sighs, looks on to Higgins forlornly, softly caresses his face before walking off the the stage and exiting right out of the theater. It was a powerful moment that didn’t change a word of dialogue. Most younger audience members loved they ending while older ones HATED it. What Bartlett Sher, the director of the 2018 revival, said was that he felt the ending was where Higgins’ journey for growth should start as Eliza’s journey with him ends and where she can now go off on her own.

[@KirSim92]

IM SO HAPPY YOURE REACTING TO THIS!

[@bartonbagnes4605]

All I can say is, as Higgins turned Eliza from a Street Erchin into a Lady, perhaps she will turn him into a human being.

[@elizabethduplat5998]

Oh wow, I grew up watching this. Such fun memories !

[@melenatorr]

We are in London. The queen of Transylvania is a guest of honor at the embassy ball.

[@MusicalJackknife]

I really don't know why I love this movie so much, I guess it's mostly nostalgia. I knew you'd hate the ending, as do most people who don't have a sentimental attachment to the movie, but I'm glad you watched.

[@frndofbear]

I agree. I think the ending is awful, but I absolutely love the rest of the movie.

[@maryrichardson1318]

This movie and the story of Pygmalion, the stage play, is based on Greek mythology. The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is quite known and popular till nowadays. Pygmalion, a famous sculptor, falls in love with his own creation and wishes to give this creation life. This simple and imaginary concept is actually the basis from a psychological understanding of male behavior and wish. This nice myth is considered as the depiction of the masculine need to rule over a certain woman and to inanimate his ideas into a female living creature. The modern concept of Pygmalion is thought as a man who "shapes" an uncultivated woman into an educated creature. This is copied from Wikipedia, but I studied mythology in university, and remember this story from those studies. The movie "Weird Science" is also a version of this.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

12:08 The death penalty was still very much legal in the UK right until the decade when this film was made. There's even an old musical called _The Mikado_ which is specifically *about* the death penalty in England - though it was set in Japan to avoid slander/libel lawsuits, kind of like how _South Park_ made Meghan and Harry Canadian.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Still, Higgins is comically over-dramatizing, as Eliza would have been unlikely to receive the death penalty had she been exposed as an imposter at the Embassy Ball. And while capital punishment continued in England until 1964, execution by beheading was abolished in 1832.

[@sharpaycutie2]

I love this movie ❤ I think Henry teases people to show love in his weird way Henry ain’t used to being close to people so this was more about them changing eachother and Henry changing for the better and Henry loving her for whom she was before 😂 He’ll break down over time but I still love this film ❤❤❤

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

"Dover, move your bloomin' arse!!" The entire Ascot scene is hilarious. Fun fact: Julie Andrews had played Eliza on Broadway to great acclaim, but was not cast in the movie because they thought they needed a big movie star name to carry it. Of course, Julie was soon cast as Mary Poppins and was a global superstar within a year. In fact, she won the Best Actress Oscar over Hepburn! (And you're right, her father is a colossal creep. I mute his scenes.) Love to Tilly, and thank you for reacting to this instead of a stupid horror movie, like everyone else. "Bloody buggery bollocks!" 😉

[@fayesouthall6604]

Brilliant

[@fayesouthall6604]

Perfect revenge. She thanked the producer of My Fair Lady in her acceptance speech as she wouldn’t have played Mary Poppins.

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

@@fayesouthall6604 "Revenge is a dish best served cold." *In a sinister movie villain voice*

[@melenatorr]

By the way, Alfie is played by the gloriously eccentric Stanley Holloway, who plays wonderfully opposite Alec Guinness in "The Lavender Hill Mob", and who used his voice to cunning perfection in such sly numbers as "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm": kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpWVlGuYmdmbq5I When this musical was being rehearsed for stage (yes it was a stage play first), Harrison, who had never been in a musical before, was very nervous, and required the constant attention of the director, Moss Hart (another name you should get to know, you won't be sorry). Holloway asked for some perspective on his work, and Hart apologized saying he could trust Holloway implicitly, but he had to hold Harrison's hand through the process.

[@conniegaylord5206]

She is a true Lady of the Theater❤

[@ulfsam-mule-son9726]

Have seen this one and also "Roman Holiday," but I think the only other film of hers that I have seen was her last role, a small part she played (for charity) in Spielberg's "Always." She was around 60 in that one, and despite that movie being a favorite of mine growing up - I had a thing for Holly Hunter as a young lad - I remember how stunningly beautiful and unchanged Hepburn was, even just a few years before her death. I'm not sure I can think of any other actress who aged so gracefully, almost as if Time was too initimidated to dare change her. 😢

[@melenatorr]

And I stop almost before we get started to let you know that must, simply must, get to know the work of George Cukor (pronounced COO-kore), one of the great directors of the old Hollywood era. He was one of the the directors on "Gone With the Wind"; he directed that other great Hepburn, Katharine, in several movies including: "A Bill of Divorcement", "Little Women" and "Philadelphia Story". Also directed "David Copperfield", Judy Garland's "A Star Is Born", and many, many others. Lerner and Lowe were a highly successful and gifted songwriting team. In addition to this work, they worked on "Gigi", "Brigadoon" and "Camelot". Rex Harrison was a very difficult but very talented actor. When he played the main character in Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit", Coward, one of the most slyly absurdist comics of his time, said Harrison was almost as funny as he himself was. Harrison was Julius Caesar to Elizabeth Taylor's "Cleopatra", and I feel the Caesar scenes in that infamous and difficult epic are among the best written and acted (I commit perjury and confess Richard Burton doesn't do it for me as Antony).

[@jessicaasakevich2264]

Instantly subscribed 😊 I needed this tonight! Thank you!

[@AdamfromFWCI]

Welcome aboard. Check my live action movie play list. I'm sure you'll find plenty of goodies

[@promisemochi]

oh man i was not expecting this!! this (and gigi) is one of my mom's favorite movies and it's been a favorite of mine as well!

[@JHowesitgoing123]

Omg I love that you reacted to this

[@AdamfromFWCI]

Loved it, I quote that Ascot scene all the time

[@HuntingViolets]

George Bernard Shaw, who wrote the play, later wrote a short piece where he said what would happen next, and it was that she stays in contact with Higgins but marries Freddie and opens a flower shop. She should hit him with his slippers at the end of this.

[@NorthernShrew]

Soooo excited.

[@HuntingViolets]

It's awhile ago that you did this, but I'd recommend _How to Steal a Million, Wait Until Dark, Two for the Road,_ and _Sabrina_ as a few Hepburn movies you might enjoy.

[@sylvanaire]

I second Roman Holiday. It was her first starring role, and there’s no music to sing to, but it’s a lovely little fairytale anyway. And this time she is the princess and he is the commoner.

[@leighkamp9457]

If you haven't already filled your October scare movie list, Wait Until Dark would be a great choice. Audrey Hepburn was nominated for an Oscar in this one.

[@AdamfromFWCI]

I recorded Cape Fear today.... mistakes were made

[@jsrichardson1]

One of my favorite movies and a great reaction! Breakfast at Tiffany's is just as iconic and she only songs one song. Lol

[@heidibrown3854]

Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalian references the Greek myth.

[@kpednault]

I love this movie loll I tried to make my friends watch it but they couldn't stand her screeching lol

[@charlescorbee9498]

Tex Harrisson played in the original movie: Dr DoLittle😄

[@SherriLyle80s]

One of my favorite classic movies. I even have a My Fair Lady Barbie with Audrey Hepburn in her Flower Girl Green dress.😊

[@AdamfromFWCI]

That sounds so cool!!!

[@SherriLyle80s]

​@@AdamfromFWCIYeah but I have to admit 80% of the men were AHs 😆

[@frndofbear]

The reason we saw so much of "Alfie" is because that is Stanley Holloway. He was an incredible talent and stole every scene he was in; as magnificent as the cast was. My guess is that the "Im Getting Married" scene was completely fabricated to get more screen time for Stanley. He was dying. Everyone knew this was to be his last movie. :(

[@AdamfromFWCI]

He was a fantastic actor and a great performer. I think I was just riding that Audrey Hepburn high and was annoyed we didnt get more of Eliza towards the end. R.I.P Stanley

[@frndofbear]

So unexpected that a woman as gorgeous as Audrey was also a comedy genius! You’re 100% right about the ending; it was as if the writers walked out abruptly!

[@melenatorr]

He is not a private eye; he states very clearly that he is a professor of phonetics, and this, of course, is key to the whole story.

[@paintedjaguar]

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" isn't really one of Audrey's best movies IMO. Better to start at the beginning with "Roman Holiday" and "Sabrina" where she is utterly charming and fresh. Maybe continue with "Charade", "Two for the Road", "Wait Until Dark" and "How to Steal a Million", all winners.

[@im-gi2pg]

My Fair Lady and Gigi were the most popular movies of that time period! Another wonderful movie is the yellow rolls royce Rex Harrison, Shirley McLain Alain delon Ingrid Bergman Omar sharif… You might want to try Gone with the Wind also. There is controversy about that 1939 film of course but the story draws reactors in. It is epic.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

19:10 Except here in Adelaide, where it was mainly posh upper-class people coming over.

[@meganlutz7150]

Enjoyed your reaction. Hope you watch more old classics

[@melenatorr]

Alfie is not getting a happy ending: being respectable and getting married is about the last thing he wants, so you can rest easy: he's being punished.

[@jamesswindley9599]

Subscribed ❤❤❤❤

[@fayesouthall6604]

I’d love you to watch Victor/Victoria a later classic musical with Julie Andrews as a down on her luck singer in 1930’s Paris until she meets Toddy a gay performer and he see something special about her.

[@k.cartermarek3983]

lol George Cukor pronounced Kewcore. Incredible director

[@a.j.nunnaurbiz6535]

*side note* I agree with your decision to live for yourself first. Parenthood isn't for everyone, and people need to stop shaming other adults who choose not to procreate. And your cat is adorable! My favorite song in the film is "Just You Wait." Higgins doesn't need to make friends with a woman to become selfish and tyrannical! As much as I love Audrey Hepburn in this role (she's brilliant!), I absolutely HATE the ending of this movie. Higgins is a condescending, arrogant, misogynistic, manipulative, abusive, narcissistic bully. In my opinion, Eliza should have stayed with Freddie, who loves her for who she really is. The fact that she goes back to Higgins in the end (after telling him off like 'a consort battleship') baffles and enrages me! If you liked Audrey in this movie, I recommend you watch Charade (1963), which also stars Cary Grant. MUCH better male lead!

[@HuntingViolets]

Yes, I like opening credits.

[@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh]

the end of this show has always been controversy. Does she marry Freddie? Does she marry Higgins? Does she marry neither and just becomes a colleague and friend of Higgins?

[@IcarusLhooq-bc7uq]

Yes it was a musical theater production first and very sucessful like fiddler on the roof or mame. Wildly poular and eliza is audrey yep

[@goonyougoodthing]

Looking forward to the my bare lady reaction next lol. If you want to see a lot of accents in a small country check out Irish accents. I mean Dublin alone has two distinctly different accents. The Belfast and Kerry accents couldn't be more different and everyone from newfoundland in Canada sounds like they are from cork. Anyway. I enjoyed the reaction as always. I wonder has anyone done a reverse my fair lady. Yenno where someone rich has to pretend to be working class. That must be a thing surely

[@sallyatticum]

This was a fun reaction. I like Roman Holiday, myself.

[@donny1960]

People judge this movie by today's standards. The original story was written at the beginning of the last Century. So expresses those times. Not modern times. This is an early example of "Enemies to Lovers"..... A very popular form of storytelling now a days. When I first saw this movie. I just thought that Eliza and Higgins would get together. It was obvious to me. They helped each other "change" and grow as people. Sure they had their old selves still inside. But you could see that they admired each other greatly. And there was true affection between them. Thanks for the reaction. It was fun.

[@AdamfromFWCI]

Higgins had about 1 minute of showing actual growth at the very very end of that movie. He was insufferable the entire runtime of this film. I get what you're saying, but Higgins redemption was pretty casual, and after the abuse he inflicted throughout the movie, he got off VERY easy. Same as the father, his big punishment is money and a marriage... poor him lol. There just seemed to be no consequences for any of the horrid male characters in this movie. Happy to agree to disagree of course :)

[@donny1960]

@@AdamfromFWCI Again. You are judging from a modern perspective. The theme of this story is "Facades". Anyone could be anything if you put on the right Facade. Higgins is a changed man at the end of the movie. Eliza changed him as much as he did her. He just puts on his old Facade in the presence of others. But his last number "I've grown accustomed to her face". Shows that he has come around to be more appreciative of others. Also I like to think that we are not disagreeing. Just looking at different aspects of the same thing. But thanks for the discussion. I enjoyed it.

[@maryrichardson1318]

The George Bernard Shaw play, the Broadway musical and this movie actually originated with Greek mythology. The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is well known . Pygmalion, a famous sculptor, falls in love with his own creation and wishes to give this creation life. This simple and imaginary concept is actually the basis from a psychological understanding of male behavior and wish. This nice myth is considered as the depiction of the masculine need to rule over a certain woman and to inanimate his ideas into a female living creature. The modern concept of Pygmalion is thought as a man who "shapes" an uncultivated woman into an educated creature.

[@IcarusLhooq-bc7uq]

Freddy is one of the aristocratic titled british lower royals who were expected to marry American heiresses whose families want to buy in to their titles . He a broke aristocrat

[@pursaki]

Kitty!

[@WJC981]

You're an Aussie and you've never heard of a Cockney accent? I guess if you wanted a comparison, think about Broad Aussie compared to Cultivated

[@vapors4villains]

14:00 You and me both in terms of being child free! If you’d like a sadder musical, consider Les Misérables for something modern or South Pacific for something older.

[@bookwoman53]

Great reaction. I don’t think that Eliza should have gone back to Higgins. He’s selfish and rude. She deserves better. As My Fair Lady is an old time musical the two leads need to fall in love at the end. I don’t know if it’s love in this case. I suppose that it’s an unpopular opinion. The songs became hits. One of my favorite performances of Accustomed To Your Face is from the early Muppets performance on the old Ed Sullivan variety show. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWfTcnihiNyIgsksi=QOrP6Hc3Jy3s7lxz Jim Henson and co. liked to blow things up and act crazier back then. The sense of anarchy has gone since Disney got them.

[@dianastaton6483]

Being of the male gender during 1912 meant that you were automatically endowed with the capability to disregard and treat women as an inferior race, especially if they were of a higher class or materialistic worth. Women in 1912 were treated very differently to how they are treated now. They were not allowed to vote and were portrayed as gentle and demure. As a result, they were often treated as children. Upper class women lived their lives by following the rules of etiquette. The way Higgins was in this movie is sort of normal for the time period especially how the upper class treated the lower class. I love this movie and always wanted to slap the look off his face.

[@kpednault]

The whole "not wanting kids because you want your own life" thing shouldn't be such an issue for people. I find it's much better to be aware of what you want in life, rather than have kids because it's "the standard" and be terrible parents. We're overpopulated anyways so it's not like people HAVE to have children. We should only have them if it's what we REALLY want, with all the responsibility that comes with it.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

6:05 A chav, I guess? Granted, "chav" is more of a modern term, used for people like Vicky from _Little Britain,_ for example. (And I guess Ali G is kind of a chav?)

[@IcarusLhooq-bc7uq]

Yes he was lying about her being beheaded if she was discoverned not to be an heiress or smth. Thats why she called him a bully lol he was just beung manipulative

[@garybassin1651]

I found it odd that the songs that did nothing for you are the songs that became popular standards back in the 1950s when the Broadway show premiered and are still being sung today.

[@earlsdennie41]

Audrey Hepburn was the most gorgeous woman. Naturally. Like Margo. Unfortunately beautiful women aren't taken seriously. Not then. Not now.

[@LeighMet]

Shes all that ripped this off. Yes its a stage show converted into film.

[@BAD46660]

Thanks for reacting to this movie. Love Audrey as Eliza but this is one of my least favorite movies of her's. Narcissistic Higgins and her returning bothered me greatly. Still a classic movie because of the performances. I suggest Charade

[@melenatorr]

She is, of course, not supposed to sound classy, and again, this is key to the story.

[@jayjaybee]

She keeps saying she's a good girl because it's her way to say that she's poor but respectable, not a whore. The beheading line was just a threat.I love this movie but never have liked the ending. I always wanted Eliza to be independent of Higgins *and* Freddy.

[@kona883]

Did I miss something? My man you missed everything Lol!

[@HuntingViolets]

Well, Alfie doesn't want to get married or be respectable or have that much money a year, so that kind of is his comeuppance.

[@KirSim92]

I HATE the ending! It’s just as bad as the “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”’s ending for me! And Henry Higgins is the WORST!!!! lol

[@victoriaodegaard1]

But it’s a “cop out”… that’s kinda the point of that one

[@melenatorr]

Pickering, not Perkins.

[@helenroberts1107]

You need to watch it with romance. It’s more of a woman’s film I think.

[@LukeSilverstar1000]

Respectfully, I think you’re taking the extreme behavior of the characters too seriously. The story was inspired by the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who sculpted the perfect woman from stone. Shaw uses that to create a satire of the Edwardian class structure and the dynamic between men and women of the era. The story is told very firmly tongue in cheek. It’s a very dated style of comedy, but it’s one I appreciate nonetheless. Cheers!

[@AdamfromFWCI]

I'm just a passionate person, heart on my sleeve, sometimes i come across a little bit much lol

[@starlight7617]

the ignorance clearly shows...

[@AdamfromFWCI]

Care to elaborate?

[@dii392]

The name is Pickering, not Perkins. I hope you enjoyed the movie overall, because you completely missed the point of some of the scenes, and completely skipped over some of the best ones. You also completely misunderstood the character of Higgins and the satiric nature of this movie which was based on a famous play by George Bernard Shaw. In other words, you're clueless. Stick to modern films which are more on your level.

[@AdamfromFWCI]

What a lovely message. Classy