Happy Eliza Doolittle Day!- Page 2

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 8:01pm

Wonderful thread!

To Eliza!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 8:03pm

And Eliza!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 8:05pm

And Eliza!

Three of the actresses I adore most have been Eliza!

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 8:48pm

What about this Eliza?

https://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org/images/ElizaNEW.png

Although, I'll always have a special place for Audrey.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 9:01pm

I only played the Queen of Transylvania lol

[D2]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 9:03pm

And let's not forget Christine Andreas, Eliza in the 20th Anniversary production in 1976:

[feinstein9]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 9:05pm

Anyone else thinking of that line from 30 Rock...
"If I have a slight British inflection, it's because I lost my virginity listening to the My Fair Lady soundtrack."

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 9:21pm

Let's show a little love for Wendy Hiller, in the film of Shaw's Pygmalion with Leslie Howard.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 9:27pm

What about Margot Kidder's Eliza (to Peter O'Toole's Higgins) in the 1983 TV version?




No? I didn't think so.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 9:32pm

I can see O'Toole has Higgens. But Kidder not so much. She's one of my least favorite Lois Lanes

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 11:38pm

What about Margot Kidder's Eliza (to Peter O'Toole's Higgins) in the 1983 TV version?

THERE WAS A TV VERSION? How the heck did that get by me? (Granted, it came out four years before I was born, but still, I'm usually savvy on finding various versions of my favorite musicals).

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 11:43pm

It wasn't a TV version of My Fair Lady it was a TV version of Pygmalion.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 11:54pm

Yeah, that was in response to PJ's post above mine.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 11:57pm

Clearly, I am an idiot and do not deserve the right to post on this topic. :P

Updated On: 5/20/09 at 11:57 PM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 12:01am

"THERE WAS A TV VERSION? How the heck did that get by me? (Granted, it came out four years before I was born, but still, I'm usually savvy on finding various versions of my favorite musicals)."

Don't feel bad. My very first thought when I saw that picture was "Wow, they wouldn't let Margot sing in Superman but she can sing those songs?"

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 12:18am

There is only one!

[degrassifan]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 10:37am

Imagine if Ms. Andrews had actually played Eliza on screen! Would she have done Mary Poppins?

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 12:16pm

Perish the thought. The film version of My Fair Lady is so horribly directed, as to not even be the same thing, as the show I saw in London in 1959, with she and Alec Clunes. Julie Andrews had zero to gain from being in such a poorly directed film. Especially when she had already done it better. As for her not being able to do both MFL and Mary Poppins, that is a popular misnomer. Poppins' principal photography was completed in time for her to have done both (due to the extra time required on that film for special effects and animation). My Fair Lady's filming schedule conflicted with the schedules of The Americanization of Emily and The Sound of Music. I'm glad she isn't in that lousy, dull-as-dishwater film. The Julie Andrews' regret for me, is that the film version of She Loves Me with she and Dick Van Dyke, got cancelled.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 12:24pm

What was the filming schedule for My Fair Lady? I know Sound of Music was between March 24 and September 1 1964. Maybe she wouldn't have done Emily, which would have been sad because she's stated that James Garner is one of her favorite co-stars.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 7:00pm

I don't recall the exact dates, now. But, you're discounting the massive pre-production work on TSOM, like rehearsals and music recordings. MFL conflicted with all of Emily's production and minimally, TSOM pre-production. Not at all with MP's principal photography. But even it MP and MFL did conflict, Walt Disney had already waited for Julie Andrews to go through an entire pregnancy and time after her daughter's birth. I think he was committed to waiting for her.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 7:43pm

I'm far from being the film's biggest fan, but to say that Julie Andrews "had zero to gain from being in such a poorly directed film," given that it won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, is kind of silly.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 7:54pm

No it isn't. What did she have to gain from being in a poorly filmed version of something she had already done, better? Besides, what difference did its 8 Oscars make? She was already in the biggest film of the year and in Disney's history, and a film that had the most nominations of that year, and she won an Oscar. So what did she have to gain?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 5/21/09 at 8:26pm

Okay.

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/22/09 at 8:37am

"So what did she have to gain?"

Having an iconic performance preserved on film.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/22/09 at 9:16am

That would undoubtedly have been OUR gain. But given Cukor's misdirection of Audrey Hepburn, would he have ruined what Julie did on stage? He ruined everything else about the piece, by making it a gooey-gowned bore-fest. Of course, she didn't require his direction, so who knows? Who cares? Her musical performance is preserved on two audio recordings, and she and that entire production are etched on my brain, as the single greatest thing I've ever seen on a stage. I was a kid, and I've never forgotten a second of it.