My Fair Lady

Lerner and Loewe made several amazingly good movies and a couple of not so good movies. My Fair Lady is their best. It is the story of a rich Victorian Gentleman-he’s just rich, don’t worry about how he got that, and a poor cockney girl who has to sell flowers for a living. Though it is not at all clear how selling flower came to be the standard profession of poor, honest girls. The story of My Fair Lady is a long one, both in screen time, which is several months, and real time, which is about three hours. The…

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