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My Fair Lady

A Musical Play in Two Acts Based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Book • 1956

Frederick Loewe

Alan Jay Lerner

My Fair Lady follows Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from phonetics professor Henry Higgins to pass as a lady.

This adaptation of Shaw's Pygmalion became one of the greatest musicals of the twentieth century, featuring iconic songs and a story of transformation and social ambition.

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Marina Hyde

as the film for which Rex Harrison won an Oscar over Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove.

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Bob Mondello

when describing the formal morning dress his dad wore to the Supreme Court.

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Nina Beguš

as a mediated version of the Pygmalion myth influential in U.S. culture.

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Melissa Errico

in reference to when she starred in it on Broadway.

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