Movie Review ~ My Fair Lady (1964)

I love this movie. I don't even know how many times I've seen it now.

Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn are awesome in their parts. Harrison plays a snobbish professor who accepts a wager that he can turn a flower girl, Hepburn, into a lady who would fit in to high society.

Academy Awards, USA 1965

Won Oscar	Best Picture Jack L. Warner
	Best Actor in a Leading Role Rex Harrison Rex Harrison dedicated his Oscar to "two fair ladies": Julie Andrews andAudrey Hepburn.
	Best Director George Cukor
	Best Cinematography, Color Harry Stradling Sr.
	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Gene Allen Cecil Beaton George James Hopkins
	Best Costume Design, Color Cecil Beaton
	Best Sound George Groves (Warner Bros. SSD)
	Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment André Previn
Nominated Oscar	Best Actor in a Supporting Role Stanley Holloway
	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Gladys Cooper
	Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Alan Jay Lerner
	Best Film Editing

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