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My Fair Lady

1964 ★ 171 min
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
Director: George Cukor
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner, George Bernard Shaw
Producer: Jack Warner

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama film adapted from Lerner and Loewe's 1956 stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.

Trivia

  • Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
  • Won the Silver nugget for the best foreign film.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Director.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Sound.
  • Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
  • CBS head William S. Paley made an arrangement where CBS would finance the original Broadway production in exchange for the rights to the cast album (through Columbia Records).
  • Warner Bros. then purchased the film rights from CBS in February 1962 for the then-unprecedented sum of $5.5 million (equivalent to $59 million in 2025) plus 47.25% of the gross over $20 million.
  • Paley added a condition to the Warner contract that ownership of the film negative would revert to CBS seven years following release.

Filming Locations

  • Los Angeles
  • Alan Jay Lerner broke the news to Andrews when she had moved to his production of Camelot: "I so wanted you to do it, Julie, but they wanted a name." The entire movie was filmed at Warner Bros.
  • With a production budget of $17 million, My Fair Lady was the most expensive film shot in the United States up to that time.

Previous Showings

27 Runs • 19 Festivals

52,650 tickets sold

All runs on record (27):

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