Sneak Peak P.2: My Fair Lady (1964)

[MingoWayama]

When I was 10, in 1956, my parents took me to see My Fair Lady. Julie Andrews was 21, I believe. She had just returned from a short vacation, and was radiant. It was one of the great experiences from my childhood. Don't get me wrong, I love the movie, which I have seen many times. But it cannot compare with my cherished experience of the live performance 66 years ago.

[rocketdave]

You may know this already, but when Julie Andrews won her Golden Globe for Mary Poppins, she famously ended her acceptance speech by cheekily giving her thanks to "a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place: Mr. Jack Warner."

[LadyOndyne]

"Not famous enough" they said. And that's a lesson in karma ladies and gentleman XD

[HannibalFan]

My father saw 'My Fair Lady' in London with the original cast. It became one of his favorite musicals of all time. and I learned all the songs from the Original Cast album he brought home When I was 7, I was taken to see it on Broadway, my first experience with professional live theater. Sadly, I don't remember who played Eliza, but I believe Ian Richardson played Professor Higgins. In 2001, my son Peter and I spent a week in England, and we got to see the revival at the Drury Lane theater, its original venue. (Martine McCuthcheon and Jonathan Pryce were marvelous!) Since Peter had never met his grandfather, who died before he was born, it was a great way for him to connect.

Peter was introduced to MFL when he was ten, when we watched the film on VHS one Saturday night. The next morning, as we got into the car to go to church, he asked me: 'Why did the boy stuff the car seat with herbs?' I didn't know. His reply: 'Because he wanted to get to the church on thyme!'

[cheesycheddar]

BARGES IN
AFTER WATCHING THIS AND MANY OTHER OF YOUR VIDS
*YOU HAVE A NEW SUBSCRIBER*

[suebob]

I have another William Powell suggestion for you. He was such a busy actor in the 30s. Manhattan Melodrama (1934) is the only film that Powell made with Clark Gable, and it was his first time working with Myrna Loy as the woman caught between these two men.

Manhattan Melodrama also had the unusual distinction of being the last film that gangster John Dillinger watched in a theater. When he left the theater he was gunned down and died.

I don't think anyone on YouTube has reacted to this movie yet, so I hope you will be the first to do so.

EDIT: Another movie to check out -- the 1936 comedy Libeled Lady with Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy.