My fair lady

Blu-ray 2019

Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...

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English language Dialects Morphology Fiction

London (England) Social life and customs Fiction

Man-woman relationships Fiction

Single women Fiction

Speech and social status Fiction

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction

Women Conduct of life Fiction

Women Social conditions Fiction

Working class Fiction

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Edition:

50th anniversary edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (172 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby TrueHD 7.1
Dolby TrueHD 1.0
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: G

Other Title:

My fair lady (Motion picture) [Blu-ray]

Notes:

Based upon the musical play produced on the stage by Herman Levin, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, from a play by Bernard Shaw
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964
Title from container
Director of photography, Harry Stradling ; art director, Gene Allen ; editor, William Ziegler ; set decorator, George James Hopkins ; choreographer, Hermes Pan ; additional music by Frederick Loewe ; vocal arrangements, Robert Tucker ; costumes, scenery, and production designed by Cecil Beaton ; music supervised and conducted by André Previn ; restored by Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, John Holland
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format ; Dolby TrueHD 7.1, Dolby TrueHD 1.0
For private home use only
Academy Award, 1965: Best Sound (George Groves); Best art direction-set decoration, color (Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, George James Hopkins); Best costume design, color (Cecil Beaton); Best cinematography, color (Harry Stradling Sr.); Best music, scoring of music, adaptation or treatment (André Previn); Best actor in a leading role (Rex Harrison); Best director (George Cukor); Best picture (Jack L. Warner)
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
Audio track in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, with optional subtitles in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, captions in English

Contents:

Disc 1. My fair lady (Blu-ray)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (Blu-ray)

Control Number:

3182832

UPC:

032429311535

Other Authors:

Bikel, Theodore, actor
Brett, Jeremy, 1933-1995, actor
CBS DVD (Firm), production company
Cooper, Gladys, 1888-1971, actor
Cukor, George, 1899-1983, film director
Elsom, Isobel, 1893-1981, actor
Harrison, Rex, actor
Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993, actor
Holland, John, 1908-1993, actor
Holloway, Stanley, actor
Hyde-White, Wilfrid, actor
Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986, screenwriter
Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988, composer
Paramount Pictures Corporation, film distributor
Tucker, Robert (Arranger), composer
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), production company
Warner, Jack L., 1892-1978, film producer
Washbourne, Mona, 1903-1988, actor
motion picture adaptation of (work): Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986. My fair lady
motion picture adaptation of (work): Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988. My fair lady

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