Which character was played by Audrey Hepburn in 'My Fair Lady'?
"(""Why Can't the English?""). At Covent Garden one evening, he meets Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), himself a phonetics expert who had come all the way from India to see him. Higgins boasts he could teach anyone to speak so well he could pass them off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball, even the young woman with a strong Cockney accent named Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) who tries to sell them flowers. Eliza's ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her accent makes that impossible (""Wouldn't It Be Loverly""). The following morning, Eliza shows up"
"""My Fair Lady"", paying an unprecedented $6.5 million. The previous owner, CBS director William S. Paley, set terms that included 50 percent of the distributor's gross profits ""plus ownership of the negative at the end of the contract."" Despite the ""outrageous"" purchase price, and the ungenerous terms of the contract, the deal proved lucrative for Warner Bros., securing the studio $12 million in profits. Warner was criticized for choosing a non-singing star, Audrey Hepburn, to play the leading role of Eliza Doolittle; indeed, the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress went to Julie Andrews, who had played Eliza on Broadway"
"the film, Audrey Hepburn was the perfect choice."" Martine McCutcheon played the role in the 2001 London revival of ""My Fair Lady"". Despite missing many performances (citing health problems), having to have various understudies perform the role and withdrawing nearly five months early from the production's transfer to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she won the award for best actress in a musical at the 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards. One of the understudies was then-unknown ""First Lady of the West End"" Kerry Ellis. Lauren Ambrose is currently playing the role in the 2018 Lincoln Center Theater revival of ""My Fair"
"for ""Mary Poppins"" at the 37th Academy Awards (1964) while Hepburn was not even nominated, despite ""My Fair Lady's"" accumulation of eight out of a possible twelve awards. Regardless, critics greatly applauded Hepburn's ""exquisite"" performance. Crowther wrote that, ""The happiest thing about [""My Fair Lady""] is that Audrey Hepburn superbly justifies the decision of Jack Warner to get her to play the title role."" Gene Ringgold of ""Soundstage"" also commented that, ""Audrey Hepburn is magnificent. She is Eliza for the ages"", while adding, ""Everyone agreed that if Julie Andrews was not to be in the film, Audrey Hepburn was the"
"part because producer Jack L. Warner thought Hepburn or Elizabeth Taylor were more ""bankable"" propositions. Hepburn initially asked Warner to give the role to Andrews but was eventually cast. Further friction was created when, although non-singer Hepburn had sung in ""Funny Face"" and had lengthy vocal preparation for the role in ""My Fair Lady"", her vocals were dubbed by Marni Nixon, whose voice was considered more suitable to the role. Hepburn was initially upset and walked off the set when informed. The press further played up the fabricated rivalry between Hepburn and Andrews, when the latter won an Academy Award"
"Academy Awards, the award for Best Actress went to Andrews for her performance as Mary Poppins. Hepburn was not nominated. Despite this, many critics greatly applauded Hepburn's ""exquisite"" performance. ""The happiest thing about [""My Fair Lady""]"", wrote Bosley Crowther, ""is that Audrey Hepburn superbly justifies the decision of Jack Warner to get her to play the title role."" Her co-star Rex Harrison, also called Hepburn his favourite leading lady and Gene Ringgold of ""Soundstage"" also commented that ""Audrey Hepburn is magnificent. She is Eliza for the ages,"" while adding, ""Everyone agreed that if Julie Andrews was not to be in"
"future stars Audrey Hepburn and Roger Moore, the role of Cherrie (June Sylvaine) was played, in the stage and film version, by the wife of the author (Vernon Sylvaine). Audrey has a thirty-second scene as a hotel receptionist. Interesting to note that thirteen years later, she would be the star and Holloway the support in My Fair Lady. During the play's West End run, the Garrick Theatre and two cast members were featured in a humorous cameo scene, reading The Stage newspaper (probably looking for new jobs due to London's anticipated destruction), in the 1950 film ""Seven Days to Noon"""
"37th Academy Awards The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. The Best Picture winner of 1964, director George Cukor's ""My Fair Lady"", was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The musical had run for many years on the stage in both NYC and London. Audrey Hepburn, the female lead of the film, was controversially not nominated for Best Actress. The unpopularity of her replacing Julie Andrews – who had originated the role on Broadway and, coincidentally, the Best Actress"
"Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four Academy Awards for Best Actress. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years"
"for Audrey Hepburn. Both Andrews' and Nixon's versions are available on the original cast and soundtrack albums, respectively, and Hepburn's original version is available in the specials for the DVD of the film. Andy Williams released a version of the song on his 1964 album, ""The Great Songs from ""My Fair Lady"" and Other Broadway Hits"". In the late 1980s and early 1990s the song was used in television advertisements for Commonwealth Bank of Australia home mortgages. Wouldn't It Be Loverly ""Wouldn't It Be Loverly"" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956"
"film's ""Tonight"" quintet. She asked the film's producers for, but did not receive, any direct royalties from her work on the film, but Leonard Bernstein contractually gave her 1/4 of one percent of his personal royalties from it. In 1962, she also sang Wood's high notes in ""Gypsy"". For ""My Fair Lady"" in 1964, she again worked with the female lead of the film, Audrey Hepburn, to perform the songs of Hepburn's character Eliza. Because of her uncredited dubbing work in these films, ""Time"" magazine called her ""The Ghostess with the Mostest"". Nixon made guest appearances with Leonard Bernstein's ""Young"
"Hepburn decided to wear Givenchy clothes on and off the screen, such as in ""Sabrina"" (1954), ""Love in the Afternoon"" (1957), ""Funny Face"" (1957), ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""Paris When It Sizzles"" (1963), ""How to Steal a Million"" (1965) and ""Bloodline"" (1979). Beginning as a client, she became the muse of the house for forty years, in some most classical films. In 1961, Audrey Hepburn installed the reputation of the house by wearing the famous ""little black dress"" in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". In 1957 Givenchy created a floral aldehyde fragrance, ""L`Interdit"", for Miss Hepburn’s sole use. His other"
"for her casting in the film version of ""My Fair Lady"", Eliza was instead played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, ""In my business, I have to know who brings people and their money to a cinema box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop."" In 1963, Andrews began her work in the title role of Disney's musical film ""Mary Poppins"". Walt Disney had seen her performance as Queen Guinevere and thought she would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is ""practically perfect in every"
"on to star in a number of successful films, such as ""Sabrina"" (1954), ""The Nun's Story"" (1959), ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""My Fair Lady"" (1964), and ""Wait Until Dark"" (1967), for which she received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only 15 people who have"
"socialite protagonist in Truman Capote's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958), which was made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn in 1961. The name of this character is stated to be short for ""Holiday"" (rather than a reference to the plant). The name peaked in popularity in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, and has declined since, ranking at #380 in the United States as of 2009. It was popularly given in England and Wales during the 2000s, staying in the top 30 girls' names throughout 1996–2012, with a peak at rank #12 in 2002 (and dropping to rank #33"
"contract guaranteed he would be playing opposite Monroe. With the production already $2 million over budget and everyone back at the starting gate, the studio pulled the plug on the project. Less than two months later, Monroe was found dead in her home. Two years later, Cukor achieved one of his greatest successes with ""My Fair Lady"" (1964). Throughout filming there were mounting tensions between the director and designer Cecil Beaton, but Cukor was thrilled with leading lady Audrey Hepburn, although the crew was less enchanted with her diva-like demands. Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline"
"her as inspiration. In 2004, Hepburn was named the ""most beautiful woman of all time"" and ""most beautiful woman of the 20th century"" in polls by Evian and QVC respectively, and in 2015, was voted ""the most stylish Brit of all time"" in a poll commissioned by Samsung. Her film costumes fetch large sums of money in auctions: one of the ""little black dresses"" designed by Givenchy for ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" was sold by Christie's for a record sum of £467,200 in 2006. Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 192920 January 1993) was a British actress,"
"to raise the couple's four children. Avedon and Siegel were divorced in 1975. She briefly returned to acting in 1984 with a role in John Cassavetes' ""Love Streams"". On December 18, 2011, Avedon died of pneumonia at the Encino Hospital Medical Center in Encino at the age of 86. Her funeral was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park on December 22 where she is interred. The 1957 film ""Funny Face"" is based on the story of Doe and Richard Avedon. Audrey Hepburn portrayed ""Jo"" who is based on Doe while the character of Dick Avery, portrayed by Fred Astaire, is"
"musical drama film ""My Fair Lady"". Brian's voice is MacFarlane's regular speaking voice. In addition MacFarlane provides the voice of various recurring and one-time characters, most prominently those of the Griffin's neighbor Glenn Quagmire, news anchor Tom Tucker and Lois' father Carter Pewterschmidt. Alex Borstein voices Lois Griffin, Asian correspondent Tricia Takanawa, Loretta Brown and Lois' mother Barbara Pewterschmidt. Borstein was asked to provide a voice for the pilot while she was working on ""MADtv"". She had not met MacFarlane or seen any artwork and said it was ""really sight unseen"". At the time, she was doing a stage show"
"knows why she did not keep their appointment. They embrace. The film is a remake of the 1939 film ""Love Affair"" with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne and of the 1957 film ""An Affair to Remember"" with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, both directed by Leo McCarey. The name of Terry McKay's character remained the same in all three films, while a different one was chosen for each of the three leading men. ""Love Affair"" was Hepburn's first big-screen appearance in nearly 10 years (although she had made several TV movies in this time) and marked her last appearance in"
"but also took several dance classes. This led to an audition for Don Arden, who hired her to dance in his play. Mary Carol Lee started working professionally as a dancer in Broadway shows. By 1964, her dancing career had plunged into films. George Cukor had been so impressed by her that, apart from her dancing part in ""My Fair Lady"", he gave her a minor role as a Magpie in the race scene with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. She acquired an agent and also changed her name to Victoria Carroll because there already were actresses named Mary Ford"
"RKO Studios. Cukor quickly earned a reputation as a director who could coax great performances from actresses and he became known as a ""woman's director"", a title he resented. Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1940), Ronald Colman in ""A Double Life"" (1947), and Rex Harrison in ""My Fair Lady"" (1964). One of Cukor's earlier ingenues was actress Katharine Hepburn, who debuted in ""A Bill of Divorcement"" (1932) and whose looks and personality left RKO officials at a"
"of genres, including screwball comedies, period dramas, and adaptations of works by top American playwrights. She appeared on the stage in every decade from the 1920s to the 1980s, performing plays by Shakespeare and Shaw, and a Broadway musical. Select filmography: Select theatre roles: Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four"
"commented on the pivotal impact of Hepburn's portrayal of Golightly: ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" set Hepburn on her [19]60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned ""My Fair Lady"". Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in ""Charade"", ""Paris When It Sizzles"", and ""How to Steal a Million"": kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in ""The Children's Hour"", ""Two for the Road"" and ""Wait Until Dark"". ""The New York Times"" called the film a ""completely"
"Hepburn. McDaniel ultimately became best known for playing a sassy and opinionated maid. The competition to win the part of Mammy in ""Gone with the Wind"" was almost as fierce as that for Scarlett O'Hara. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to film producer David O. Selznick to ask that her own maid, Elizabeth McDuffie, be given the part. McDaniel did not think she would be chosen because she had earned her reputation as a comic actress. One source claimed that Clark Gable recommended that the role be given to McDaniel; in any case, she went to her audition dressed in"
"Award, and the Special Tony Award. Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress who had an extensive career in film, television, and on the stage from 1948 to 1993. Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful women of all time, she was ranked as the third greatest screen legend in American cinema by the American Film Institute. Hepburn is also remembered as both a film and style icon. Her debut was as a flight stewardess in the 1948 Dutch film ""Dutch in Seven Lessons"". Hepburn"
"Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 192920 January 1993) was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. Born in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell, before moving to London in 1948, continuing her ballet training with Marie Rambert,"
"as a chorus girl in the musicals ""High Button Shoes"" (1948), and ""Sauce Tartare"" (1949). Two years later she made her Broadway debut as the title character in the play ""Gigi"". Hepburn's Hollywood debut as a runaway princess in William Wyler's ""Roman Holiday"" (1953) opposite Gregory Peck made her a star. For her performance she received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1954 she played a chauffeur's daughter caught in a love triangle in Billy Wilder's romantic comedy"
"little black dress for the opening scene of Blake Edwards' romantic comedy, ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", where Hepburn plays a leading role alongside actor George Peppard. Her necklace was made by Roger Scemama, a French parurier who designed jewelleries for Givenchy. Audrey took two copies of the dress back to Paramount, but the dresses, which revealed a considerable amount of Audrey's leg, were not suitable for the movie and the lower half of the dress was redesigned by Edith Head. The original hand-stitched dress is currently in Givenchy's private archive, whilst one copy Audrey took back to Paramount is on display"
"social ladder. Hepburn loved the book and was delighted to be offered the role. The film was a hit, one of Hepburn's personal favorites, and gave the actress her second Oscar nomination. She received the second most votes, after winner Bette Davis. Given the choice of her next feature, Hepburn decided to star in George Cukor's new project, ""Sylvia Scarlett"" (1935), which paired her for the first time with Cary Grant. Her hair was cut short for the part, as her character masquerades as a boy for much of the film. Critics disliked ""Sylvia Scarlett"" and it was unpopular with"
"""Sabrina"" opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. In the same year Hepburn garnered the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying the titular water nymph in the play ""Ondine"". Her next role was as Natasha Rostova in the 1956 film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"". In 1957 Hepburn starred with Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier in Billy Wilder's ""Love in the Afternoon"", and with Fred Astaire in the musical film ""Funny Face"". Two years later she appeared in the romantic adventure film ""Green Mansions"", and played a nun in ""The Nun's Story"". In 1961, Hepburn"
"while ""Variety"" magazine also complimented Hepburn's ""soft sensitivity, mar-velous projection and emotional understatement"" adding that Hepburn and MacLaine ""beautifully complement each other"". Hepburn next appeared opposite Cary Grant in the comic thriller ""Charade"" (1963), playing a young widow pursued by several men who chase the fortune stolen by her murdered husband. The 59-year-old Grant, who had previously withdrawn from the starring male lead roles in ""Roman Holiday"" and ""Sabrina"", was sensitive about his age difference with 34-year-old Hepburn, and was uncomfortable about the romantic interplay. To satisfy his concerns, the filmmakers agreed to change the screenplay so that Hepburn's character"
"her pretentious attempts to appear upper-class and wed a wealthy man while concealing her poverty. Hepburn's popularity had declined after her two 1933 film triumphs - her Oscar-winning performance in ""Morning Glory"" and her superb performance as Jo March in Little Women; her performance in ""Alice Adams"" made her a public favorite again. Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) is the youngest daughter of the Adams family. Her father (Fred Stone) is an invalid employed as a clerk in a factory owned by Mr. Lamb (Charles Grapewin), who has kept Adams on salary for years despite his lengthy illness. Her mother (Ann"