Here is a link to the 1938 version of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller:http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Just a year later Leslie Howard played Ashley Wilkes, Scarlett O'Hara's crush in Gone with the Wind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Here are some scenes from the 1964 movie My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. The first is the trailer with "The Rain in Spain."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Next is "Just You Wait," a song that voices Eliza's frustration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Then we have the scene at the races. The dialogue is taken from Act 3 and Mrs. Higgins' "at home." The races at Ascot probably make for a more cinematic venue than one woman's drawing room, no matter how tastefully decorated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMSvyqHHwA
Eliza's father comes in here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Sj9o7DWJU&feature=related
We'll conclude with the last scenes of My Fair Lady where Higgins realizes he loves Eliza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Rex Harrison said that he was playing Leslie Howard playing Henry Higgins.
As I mentioned, Audrey Hepburn lip-synched the songs in My Fair Lady. The singing voice you hear was Marni Nixon's. Julie Andrews played Eliza on Broadway earlier, and whose voice could compete with hers?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJqBaA0CqOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpn0aQ1fyzs
Here are some modern versions of Pygmalion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Claire Danes has recently played Eliza in Pygmalion:
http://www.observer.com/2007/we-ve-grown-accustomed-musical-pygmalion-shaw-little-out-whack
Oh yes, and here are the links to Upstairs Downstairs and Sarah's attempts to live by her wits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZnjBdB1CM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hz4nm37xvg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGDHrijR_M
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