Comedy · Romance · Music
American
1964 · Directed by George Cukor · 173 min
In Edwardian London, a brilliant and arrogant phonetics professor wagers that he can turn a Cockney flower seller into someone who passes for a lady. Lerner and Loewe's stage musical, adapted from Shaw, becomes a lavish studio spectacle, witty, melodic and drenched in period design.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining example of the 1960s big-budget Broadway musical adaptation, and a late high point of Hollywood studio craftsmanship just before the system's old certainties began to give way.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about voices: how people sound, who is allowed to sound which way, and how song and speech blur.
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