My fair lady
2019
Blu-ray
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 slums, Eliza Doolittle, who has a strong Cockney accent. Can Higgins turn Eliza into a duchess? And will Eliza care to remain a lady for long? When the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London's elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself.
Item Details
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).
Publisher or Distributor Number: 2103759
Control Number: 3182832
UPC: 032429311535
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2019]Subjects:
- City and town life -- England -- London -- Fiction.
- 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.
Genre:
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.