How did this baggage get here in the first place?Įliza came to see me this morning and I was delighted to have her. No woman could resist such an invitation. You've caused me enough trouble for one morning. My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaws 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Now, you get up and come home and stop being a fool. Would you care for some tea?ĭon't you dare try that game on me. Well, if I was doing it proper, what was you sniggering at? Have I said anything I oughtn't? The new small talk, you do it so awfully well. Besides, he poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady has thrilled audiences around the world since its 1956 premiere. My Fair Lady (1964) At the Higgins residence, the professor has started Eliza on a harsh, excruciating regimen of pronunciation exercises ('making her say the alphabet over and over') for her language education until 'she does it properly, of course.' A metal diaphragm has been tightly fitted around her lungs - as she pronounces vowels in a. Originally written by Jay Gummert for the MY FAIR LADY program. Surely you don't think someone killed her?ĭo I not? Them she lived with would have killed her for a hatpin, let alone a hat.īut it can't have been right for your father to be pouring spirits down her throat like that. My Fair Lady: AlmostBut Not QuiteA Love Story. It's the new slang, meaning someone has killed her. : The French dont care what they do actually, as long as they pro. : Im a good girl, I am Added: DecemThe French dont care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly. And what I say is: them as pinched it, done her in. My Fair Lady Quotes Repeated line Im a good girl, I am Eliza Doolittle. Now, what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl right off the spoon. But my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Why should she die of influenza, when she come through diphtheria right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it she was.
Hollywood's legendary 'woman's director,' George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film. But it's my belief they done the old woman in. Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White. My aunt died of influenza, or so they said. And the whole of our family is susceptible to it. I do hope we won't have any unseasonable cold spells they bring on so much influenza.
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