She took singing lessons in an attempt to improve, but still. I want to pull the best from what was already very good, if I can, and I hope to get lucky. United Artists Hepburn got the part over Julie Andrews for the role of Eliza Doolittle, despite the fact she couldn't sing. "There's not much that's wrong with the piece in the first place, but I'm not coming out here with a modern vision or doing anything too fancy. "It's going to be I hope as strong a production we can make it," she said. Watch/Listen Julie Andrews played Eliza Doolittle Interviews with the cast In Context The reviews of the first night of My Fair Lady were unanimous in declaring the London version of the. 1964 film version of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewes My Fair Lady sparked a. Plot edit Act I edit In Edwardian London, Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl with a thick Cockney accent. Many revivals have followed, and the 1964 film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The production will feature original set designs and costumes by Oliver Smith and Cecil Beaton, and is working to an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality, she said. Audrey Hepburns landing the role of Eliza Doolittle in Warner Bros. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starred in both productions. "I'm not worrying about whether I can sing those songs, it's not up to me any more." Audrey Hepburn’s landing the role of Eliza Doolittle in Warner Bros. But mostly a kind of deep recognition as to why perhaps I was chosen in the first place, which I never understood at that the time, and just a genuine gratitude for having been part of it. "It's been the most interesting experience to hear this talent coming in and singing these songs and not, 'God, I wish I could still do it', or anything like that, not at all. The story takes place in 1912, although other sources place it earlier. Rex Harrison’s microphone, which was hidden in his neckties, would occasionally pick up police broadcasts from passing police cars.
At a press conference marking her arrival, she answered graciously a question about how it felt for her to relive the songs she can no longer sing following throat surgery in 1997. Walt Disney offered to delay filming on Mary Poppins until the summer of 1964 if Julie Andrews was cast as Eliza Doolittle.
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