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My Fair Lady (film)
My Fair Lady
is a 1964 American
musical
film adaptation
of the
Lerner and Loewe
eponymous
stage musical
based on the
1938 film adaptation
of the original 1913 stage play
Pygmalion
by
George Bernard Shaw
. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by
George Cukor
, the film depicts a poor
Cockney
flower seller
Eliza Doolittle
who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of
Edwardian
London
.
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