Finally! Someone other than my late mother who agrees with me!

I've always found Ms. Hepburn to be a charming screen presence who usually seemed expected to be, well, a charming screen presence. She's quite good in THE NUN'S STORY, and can rise to the occasion when necessary in other films. That lovely little speech at the end of ROMAN HOLIDAY, for example.

But nothing can excuse her ill-casting in that atrocity of MY FAIR LADY. Nothing. She's pathetic in the role, all of Ms. Thompson's twee mimsy-mumsy sweetness right there on the screen, and what's worse is that she was evidently directed to do exactly that by George Cukor, who really should have known better.

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Well, Ms. Thompson has stronger feelings about her than I do. I don't think Audrey Hepburn is the Keanu Reeves of her day, by any means. She's certainly very pretty and photogenic, and she can get through a film without disgracing herself, and is usually quite good for what she does. On the other hand, there isn't a single one of her films that I'd bother sitting through again.

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Well, exactly. What was Cukor smoking to get him to so completely screw that movie up?

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