My Fair Lady
(1964) The film of the beloved stage musical is oversized, but it boasts Rex Harrison as the snide elocutionist Prof. Henry Higgins, who transforms a cockney flower peddler into a society lady. Audrey Hepburn, no one's idea of a mudlark, co-stars as Eliza. There are some terrific songs: "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face," "On the Street Where You Live" and "The Rain in Spain." Quite stiff and cautious, actually, but the old-time music-hall star Stanley Holloway gives it a lift (as Eliza's Doolittle's reprobate dad, who sings "Get Me to the Church on Time.") (Plays Sep 22-25 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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