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21 comments:
I LOVE My Fair Lady. I loved the way Eliza kept saying, "Aow!" in horror at some of Professor Higgins' suggestions. Makes me laugh every time...
I love this screen shot (as I love the whole film), and it's a perfect view of all those gorgeous costumes. The only oscar My Fair Lady one which it truly deserved.
What is Jeremy Brett thinking about though? (He's neither reacting to Audrey or watching the race...)
Sorry "won".
Jeremy Brett is thinking that he's way too pretty to be dumped for boring older men who can't sing.
They should retitle the song "on the street where He lives" ;)
My fave part from this film is Eliza reciting "the rain in spain..." to the upper class onlookers. Sigh... Audrey Hepburn.
George Cukor is awesome isn't he? He seems to be a perennially underrated. The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star is Born, The Women, Dinner at Eight, Camille, Born Yesterday. All great movies.
Is it because he did "woman's pictures" or something? Someone with a track record like this should be more acclaimed.
Cecil Beaton, who did the costumes, was a genius. I LOVE Audrey's gowns. (I love that pink one she wears in the conservatory). What a perfect match of someone who could really wear clothes and someone who could really design them. Now if only they'd had a good choreographer and a stricter editor.
murnau - from the little I've read, it seems that George Cukor was adored by the women he worked with, who were all elated to get into one of his pictures. He also seemed respected by his peers as somebody who could really deliver a picture.
I'd agree that he isn't so much talked about now, but if I was an artist, I'd prefer to have respect and wonderful working relationships while I was alive, than fame after death (or too much fame while alive). You remind me that I should check out some of his films I haven't seen, so thanks!
Rex Harrison, do me.
anonymous: of course you're right, it's better to have been loved while you were here than when you're dead. I don't really complain for his sake, but for more selfish reasons. I'm tired of all the eyebrow raising when I mention how much I LOVE My Fair Lady or Camille among film nerd friends. The query "wait...are you gay?" comes up soon afterward. It's a bit annoying.
They were in the midst of filming "wouldn't it be loverly" on the morning of november 22,1963...Cukor pulled Hepburn aside to tell her about the JFK assassination. Hepburn broke the news to the cast and crew who promptly left for the day / weekend.
Sometimes i think about the specific dates of when they shot certain scenes.
I just saw the film and i think it's quite nice, but soooo dated...
really looks like it was shot inside and on a soundstage....
never understood all the brouhaha regarding hepburn / andrews. audrey is magical....coming down the staircase for the ball - she takes your breath away.
Darling, you create a role in London, reprise it on Broadway, and then have some fabulous hollywood actress, WHO CAN NOT SING, score the movie role!!!
As fate would have it, if Julie Andrews did the film "My Fair Lady", then we wouldn't have had "Mary Poppins" or "the Sound of Music" as we know and love them. "Lady" was shot during both "Mary" and "Music".
Cukor wasn't:
a) an auteur
or
b) a genre director (outside of musicals which, to many movie fanatics, don't count of course)
Which helps explain the issues with his underrated...ness (is that a word?)
chris, darling - i know all that (I said as I put out my cigarette and swirled out of the room). oh, and by the way, dear, "lady" was completed before "music" went into production.
marshamason!?
do tell us about your Oscar experiences you fabulous one! is richard dreyfuss as annoying as he seems? ;)
One of the few musicals I've never really been able to fall in love with. I actually prefer the non-musical adaption of the play with Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard in the 1930's.
Gorgeous costumes, yes. But - was Rex Harrison's perf really Oscar-worthy? I think not. I think part of the problem for me is that the dynamic is never believable to me in this version. As friends? sure. Lovers or spouses? no.
my oscar experiences were all good....the only time i was truly pissed was losing on my very last outing for "only when i laugh" - lost unfairly to kate hepburn in that sappy "golden pond"....
"nah-mahn the loons, the loons."
loons, my ass!
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