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My fair lady [videorecording (DVD)].

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Warner Home Video, c1998.

English drama -- Irish authors -- Film adaptations.

English drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Musicals -- Film adaptations

Social classes -- Drama.

Academy Award for Best Picture.

Video Difference legacy collection.

079078534X (2-disc Special ed.)

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 (or 2) videodisc(s) (173 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital, Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the play by Bernard Shaw.

Program content : CBS Inc., 1994.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.

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 version of "Show me" and "Wouldn't it be loverly?" ; interactive menus ; production notes ; 4 theatrical trailers ; scene access.

Special features (2-disc Special ed.) Disc 1: Commentary by art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon, restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz.

Special features (2-disc Special ed.) Disc 2: Delightful documentary "More loverly than ever: My Fair Lady then and now" ; alternate Audrey Hepburn vocal versions of "Show me" and "Wouldn't it be loverly?" ; vintage featurettes and archival footage of the production kickoff, the Hollywood premiere and awards ceremonies ; comments from Rex Harrison, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Martin Scorsese ; "Show me" galleries of production stills, sketched, documents, posters and more ; theatrical trailers of this and other Lerner and Loewe musicals.

Widescreen version presented in a "letterbox" widescreen format preserving the "scope" aspect ratio of its original 70mm theatrical exhibition. Enhanced for widescreen TVs.

Languages & subtitles: English and French.

Closed-captioned.

Music by Frederick Loewe ; screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner ; produced by Jack L. Warner ; directed by George Cukor.

Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison with Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde- White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett & Theodore Bikel.

"By George, they've got it! Newly transferred from elements painstakingly restored in 1994, the film version of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady is lavish, loverly and the acclaimed recipient of eight 1964 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Cukor). Best Actor Oscar winner Rex Harrison reprises his signature stage role of Henry Higgins, the supremely assured phoneticist who wagers that under his tutelage, Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle can pass for a duchess at the Embassy Ball. In one of her best-loved roles, Audrey Hepburn plays Eliza. If ever there was a face the professor could grow accustomed to, it's hers. In Hartford, Heresford and Hampshire (and elsewhere) no one's fairer than My Fair Lady, one of the most irresistible musicals ever."--Container.

Winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, 1964.

Coming-of-age films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Pygmalion. Film adaptations.

Cukor, George, 1899-1983.

Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993.

Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988. My fair lady.

Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986.

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