My fair lady [videorecording] / Warner Brothers ; produced by Jack L. Warner ; directed by George Cukor ; music by Frederick Loewe ; screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner.
Publisher number: 28885 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Summary language: Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2004.Edition: Two-disc special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cmISBN:- 079078534X
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
Based on the Broadway show by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, which was based on the play Pygmalion by George Shaw.
Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary by art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon, and restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz; Disc 2: "More loverly than ever: the making of 'My fair lady' -- "Then and now"; "The production," all-new featurette on 1963 production-kickoff dinner; audio of George Cukor directing Baroness Bina Rothschild; Audrey Hepburn's alternate vocals for "Wouldn't it be loverly" and "Show me"; posters and lobby cards with Rex Harrison radio interview; "The fairest fair lady" making-of featurette; L.A. premiere footage; "Show me" galleries of black-and-white production stills, production documents, Cecil Beaton costume sketches, and architectural drawings; Rex Harrison's Golden Globe acceptance speech; 37th Academy Awards footage; testimonials from Martin Scorsese and Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lerner and Loewe trailers including Brigadoon ('54), Camelot ('67), Gigi ('58), My Fair Lady (original '64 and '94 re-release).
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Halloway, Wilfird Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom.
Hepburn plays a sassy, working-class London street vendor, whom an arrogant professor attempts to turn into a sophisticated lady through proper schooling. But, when the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London's elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself.
DVD, widescreen (2.20:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.
In English with optional French language track and French or Spanish subtitles
Closed-captioned.
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