My fair lady

Title
My fair lady

Uniform Title
My fair lady (Motion picture)

ISBN
9780790740072

Publication Information
Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, ©1998.

Physical Description
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
Widescreen letterbox version ; dual-layer screen formats.
 
Based on the play: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw; and the musical play by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
 
Originally produced as motion picture in 1964.
 
Restored from its original version in 1994.
 
Special features: Feature-length audio commentary that includes art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon and restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz; behind-the-scenes documentary 'The fairest fair lady'; alternate Audrey Hepburn vocal versions of 'Show me' and 'Wouldn't it be loverly'; interactive menus; production notes; 4 theatrical trailers; scene access.
 
Includes scene index in container.

Contents
Overture and credits -- The rain in Covent Garden -- Phoenetics in practice -- Why can't the English? -- Higgins' boast -- Wouldn't it be loverly? -- Not a brass farthing -- Something better? -- Negotiations -- And the angels will weep -- Bath time -- I'm an ordinary man -- With a little bit of luck -- Gift of rhetoric -- The underserving poor -- Just you wait -- As and hs -- Poor Professor Higgins -- Pep talk -- The rain in Spain -- I could have danced all night -- Ascot Gavette -- At the races -- The new small talk -- Dover's blommin's arse -- On the street where you live -- The girl matters -- Dressed for the ball -- Intermission -- Entr'Acte -- Zoltan Karpathy -- The Embassy waltz -- Quite charming -- Abuzz about Eliza -- You did it -- What's to become of her? -- Just you wait reprise -- On the street where you live reprise -- Show me -- Wouldn't it be loverly? reprise -- Respectable! -- Get me to the church on time -- Eliza's bolted -- A hymn to him -- The lady's whereabouts -- Eliza's future -- Without you -- I've grown accustomed to her face -- Where the devil? -- Exit music/end credits.
 
Special features include: Feature-length audio commentary that includes art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon and restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz; behind-the-scenes documentary 'The Fairest Fair Lady'; alternate Audrey Hepburn vocal versions of 'Show Me' and 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly'; interactive menus; production notes; 4 theatrical trailers; scene access.

Personal Subject
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950-Film adaptations.

Subject Term
Man-woman relationships -- England -- London -- Drama.
 
Speech and social status -- England -- London -- Drama.

Genre
Musical films.
 
Feature films.
 
Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Added Author
Cukor, George, 1899-1983
 
Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986
 
Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988
 
Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993
 
Harrison, Rex
 
Holloway, Stanley,
 
Hyde-White, Wilfrid,
 
Cooper, Gladys, 1888-1971.
 
Brett, Jeremy, 1933-1995
 
Bikel, Theodore
 
Previn, André, 1929-2019
 
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Pygmalion.

Summary
A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.

System Details
DVD (WITH CHAPTER STOPS) ; DOLBY DIGITAL SURROUND 5.1 ; MONO ; WIDESCREEN VERSION AND DUAL-LAYER SCREEN FORMATS.

Language Note
ENGLISH AND FRENCH; SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH; CLOSED CAPTIONED.


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