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MY FAIR LADY (1964) | dir. George Cukor “Damn Mrs. Pearce, damn the coffee and damn you!”
My Fair Lady (1964) dir. George Cukor
Audrey Hepburn & Jeremy Brett in My Fair Lady (1964) dir. George Cukor
Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady - 1964
Professor Henry Higgins: “By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of men shooting themselves for your sake before I’m done with you.”
My Fair Lady (1964)
I’m very grateful she’s a woman
and so easy to forget
Rather like a habit one can always break
And yet…
Eliza, I know you’re tired. I know your head aches. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher window. But think what you are trying to accomplish! Think what you’re dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language. The greatest possession we have. The noblest sentiments that ever flowed in the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative, and musical mixture of sounds. That’s what you’ve set yourself to conquer Eliza. And conquer it you will.
Hadden-Paton’s Higgins is visibly hurt by what he perceives as Eliza’s abandonment of him, and he’s never learned to process disappointment or, worse, emotional vulnerability. He shows us a man whose own journey of self-discovery is only just beginning well after Eliza has embarked upon hers.— Sara Holden, Vulture
