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At age 65, "My Fair Lady" director George Cukor finally won his Oscar on his fifth nomination, setting a record as the oldest winner in that category, which held until 2003.
B efore it became an Oscar-winning movie, My Fair Lady was a Broadway stage musical starring a young Julie Andrews. However, if Andrews had played Eliza Doolittle on screen, she might not have had ...
Gene Allen, a production designer who won an Oscar for My Fair Lady and was a former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in ...
It wasn’t Allen’s first success. In addition to “My Fair Lady” (1965), he received Oscar nominations for two other Cukor films: “A Star is Born” (1955) and “Les Girls” (1958).
However, there are many surprising facts behind the scenes of My Fair Lady, which are shared below.. MUST-READ: 1964 Movies — 15 Classic Films Turning 60 and Where to Stream Them 1. The Hepburn ...
Robert A. Harris, who led a team that famously restored the Oscar-winning 1964 film version of “My Fair Lady” for its 30th anniversary, wasn’t thrilled when he took a look at the classic ...
"My Fair Lady" is an iconic Hollywood tale, but a casting controversy ruined Audrey Hepburn's chances for an Oscar for the film. Sixty years later, she still needs defending.
On Oct. 21, 1964, Warner Bros.' My Fair Lady held its premiere at the Criterion Theatre in New York.
Oscars Best Actor Winners Of All Time ... 1975 — Art Carney. ... “My Fair Lady’ (1964) 1964 — Sidney Poitier. Image Credit: Everett Collection ...
The slippers still cause consternation. At the end of George Cukor’s My Fair Lady (1964), when viewers might expect Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) to embrace the swan-like Eliza ...
Since 1938, when the film version of "Pygmalion," from which "My Fair Lady" descended, won playwright George Bernard Shaw a best screenplay Oscar, audiences have come to expect that Eliza and ...
My Fair Lady, 1965. Image Credit: Photofest Director: George Cukor. Cast: ... Other Oscar Wins: Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration), Best Art Direction ...