My Fair Lady ch5

Hepburn gets a huge amount of credit for her role in this but for me Harrison and Holloway ( in particular ) are immense.
Still love to see the walk out from the stop out in the boozer and the wee fat wumman and her tipsy waddle!  And Holloway's singing!!!!!

So Rico has telefusion

never watch this sort of thing..although i also stumbled across her in breakfast at tiffanys last yr and ended up watching it..

Harrison won the Oscar for "Best Actor" for that film ahead of, among others, Peter Sellers (Dr Strangelove).

I can't claim to be a judge on such matters but I thought Sellers was amazing in Dr Strangelove with the different characters he played.

stumbled across a biopic of marilyn monroe few mths ago...got a culture shock as heres me thinking she had only been a pin up bimbo type..honestly hadnt realised she had been a revered hollywood actress.

Rico!  Rico!  Rico!  The root of the lady's problems were that,  in terms of parts offered she wasn't recognised as a revered "actress", but as a bimbo.   At times she was very, very sexy and alluring and boy did she fit that 50's and 60's male mentality but she always gave the impression that she was a bit of a minger and could do with a good hygiene plan.
Still, none of us would have crawled over her to get to you.
Do keep up son.

Time magazine
Even though we’ve had 60 years to figure out how we feel about Marilyn Monroe, no one really knows what to do with her. And so she has become our doll, a naked form to dress as we please: We know all about the sadness of her life, to the extent that her name has become a synonym for emotional fragility, a vessel we can fill with our own fears about loneliness and self-doubt. Her death in 1962 is still a magnet for conspiracy enthusiasts, particularly given her involvement at the time—or even just mere friendship, if that’s what you want to believe—with John F. Kennedy, and his brother Robert as well. Very recently a woman who’s famous mostly for being famous, however that works, insisted on wearing one of Marilyn’s dresses, among the most precious and recognizable in the world, to a glamorous, high-profile party, reportedly straining its fragile fabric irreparably. The outcry was immediate and widespread—a dress isn’t just a dress when it was worn by Marilyn. We love Marilyn so much—as a face, as a symbol, as a bottomless well that will take as much pity as we can pour into it—that collectively we seem to have lost sight of one of the central truths of her being: she was a phenomenally intelligent and gifted actor, a woman whose natural charm and devotion to her craft resulted in work so delightful, and sometimes so emotionally raw, that it’s worthy of any modern actor’s envy.

honcho disagree's  .. didnt realise he was a revered film critic

You wouldn't think Rex Harrison came from Huyton Liverpool, Same area I found the Sports bags full of money. Might of been his Swag

aye just read that on wiki Billy..

Amazed to see that in High Society the role of a butler was played by Gordon Richards.

So is this Time Magazine "critic" old enough to have seen her "live" so to speak, and formed their own opinions, or is he/she gleaning from the multitude of publications issued in the last sixty years and adding their spin just to sound clever?.
The "central truth of her being" was that she was troubled in her mind, troubled in her personal life, big, big trouble in a studio and actually went to acting/drama classes as an already box office successful actress. Go figure that one. So even she knew she had a lot to learn.
Clark Gable and many others lamented her mental fragility.  Does your Time Magazine correspondent know that.
And yes, I am a film critic, though not professional.
So are you.

yes,Peter North was the best squirter ive ever seen.

honcho disagree's  .. didnt realise he was a revered film critic

More impressive still, Rico, is that LH is an expert on her hygiene habits too...

but she always gave the impression that she was a bit of a minger and could do with a good hygiene plan.

aye,incredible that all this happened in 60's..honcho mussed be 90 odd.

At times she was very, very sexy and alluring and boy did she fit that 50's and 60's male mentality

Trying to get my head around this one, so fancying "very, very sexy and alluring women" of Marilyn's type was a 50's and 60's male mentality?

yes,most men fancy julian clary types these daze.

The doughnuts have got together.
GEORGE.B ever the bitter.

Did we ever find out if Dover finished in the first three?

First time I've watched this was yesterday, as I'm not a fan of musicals in general, didn't do much for me, much preferred Pygmalion with Trevor Howard which was a much darker story.

Guys and Dolls has 3 horses

"im pickin' Valentine, 'cause on the morning line
A guy has got him figured at five to nine"

the other 2 were Epitaph and Paul Revere

Stewarts - I think Trevor Howard would have been really good in it.  Awesome in Brief Encounter, but they chose Leslie Howard who was very good.

My Fair Lady - Horses going the wrong way round Ascot!!

Just testing Blackbarn, to see if anyone was paying attention. Having looked it up i see Leslie was 20 years older than Trevor, but as you so rightly say, would have been just as good.

as i said i dont watch this sort of thing either stewards..but i quite enjoyed breakfast at tiffanys earlier last yr when i stumbled across it just as it started..liked audrey ever since.

Too much swearing in MFL for my liking...

The best thing about My Fair Lady, AND the King and I, AND West Side Story is Marni Nixon.

Actually re West Side Story, 2nd best behind Lennie.

Very good singer, did any of the actors actually sing in MFL?

I think Stanley Holloway did.......

Almost backed out of the original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady" during rehearsals when he felt that director Moss Hart wasn't paying enough attention to his character. Finally Hart took him aside and said, "Look, Stanley, I am rehearsing a girl who has never played a major role in her life, and an actor who has never sung on the stage in his life. You have done both. If you feel neglected it is a compliment." Holloway burst out laughing and never brought up the subject again.

Every time i see a non musical  Stanley Holloway film, i also seem to see
Sidney Taffler in the same film

Lerner and Lowe were Americans but loved Britain and its quirks.They wanted to get everything right languagewise. Lowe had one big regret, he writes in his memoirs. He penned On the Street where you live, and realised too late that the British would say they live IN
a street not ON it.

I remember a good filly called West Side Story placed 2nd in the Oaks and I think 1000 gns very early sixties trained by T E Leader owned by Jim Joel . Same Sire as Rockavon.
Dambuster- Sydney Taffler usually played the Spiv in films very well.
Brians- I was still at school when my mother gave me the money to go to the record shop in Lanark. I was to purchase the record of On The Street Where you Live by "Victor Moon". Man in shop had never heard of that version of the song. I'll just leave that there...

Brilliant anecdote blackbarn.  Many thanks.

Took a while Tommy but now I get it. Victor Moon,……Vic Damone. Good one!