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My Fair Lady gets the royal treatment on DVD
Yes, I know, Audrey Hepburn couldn't sing the songs and had to have someone else sing for her, while Julie Andrews could have done the singing herself. I know all that. However, I think Audrey Hepburn and Marni Nixon did a fine job acting and singing as Eliza Doolittle. Audrey is my favorite actress of all time, so I'm a bit biased, but I'm also a huge fan of Julie and I know she would have done this role brilliantly. However, she went on to do Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, and honestly, I can't see anyone else as Mary or Maria. Just wanted to get all that out of the way, as many can't get past the fact that Julie wasn't in the movie. <
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>That having been said, I discovered My Fair Lady in the mid-90's, after a team of experts lovingly restored the film to its original Super Panavision 70 splendor, although for years, I still only saw the pan-and-scan version. However, I instantly fell in love with the songs, the designs, and the lovely Ms. Hepburn. <
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>This DVD is absolutely one of the crown jewels of my collection. The transfer is excellent, although I hear it starts to break down on large screen TVs, HDTVs, and projection screens. However, I just have a regular TV, and on my TV, it's an excellent transfer. The colors are vibrant, the designs are brilliant, the scope of the Super Panavision 70 fills my eyes with visual beauty. There are a few print flaws which are present because of the inability to perfectly fix them in 1994, but nothing very distracting. The audio is also excellent. The first disc's sole bonus feature is an audio commentary by production designer Gene Allen, Marni Nixon, and restorers Robert Harris and James Katz. I found the commentary to be a bit boring, and focused more on the restoration than anything else. All in all, the movie is the showpiece of disc 1. Although many can argue that it could use a new digital restoration by companies such as Lowry Digital, responsible for many of the restorations of Disney films for DVD, to bring it to the standard of movies restored in the 21st century, I think the 1994 restoration still holds up beautifully 10 years later. <
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>Disc 2 contains a plethora of features. Although I can gripe about the time counter at the top of some of these, or about the lack of some other bonuses that were included on the deluxe LD box set from 1994, but I won't. <
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>The meat of the bonuses lies in the 1994 making-of documentary "More Loverly Than Ever." The documentary goes in-depth into the making AND restoration of the movie. The documentary includes interviews (some archival) for cast, crew, Marni Nixon, and even Julie Andrews. Also included are vintage featurettes, archival premiere footage, trailers, and galleries. Also included are clips of "Show Me" and "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" including Audrey Hepburn's original singing vocals. Although she did a good job on Loverly, (despite needing Nixon to sing the final lines) hearing Audrey's vocals on Show Me shows that having Nixon sing the songs probably was a better idea than having Audrey sing the songs herself, despite the fact that she tried. <
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>If you're a fan of this movie, or of movie musicals in general, I heartily recommend this beautiful DVD set. If you have a regular TV set, you won't notice any issues in the transfer, and the bonus features delve into the making of the movie. You can't ask for a better DVD edition of My Fair Lady than this.

"wouldn't it be loverly..." it is, it is!
"My Fair Lady" should be a part of anyone's movie collection for several reasons. For starters, the plot, adapted from "Pygmalion," written by the great author, George Bernard Shaw, is wonderfully engaging and truly timeless. The notion that a man handpicks a street urchin of the street, only to mold her into a dignified lady provides an example of the tendency, on the part of human beings, to want to mold and perfect one another at any cost. This is a stark look at a part of this world that is made all too apparent in fashion magazines, relationships between men and women, and even in our own critical self perception. What's more, this musical has a beautiful score, written by the team of Lerner & Loewe. Some of the most beautiful pieces from musical theatre are showcased here. ("On the Street Where You Live," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," among others) <
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>Although it saddens me that the magical, mesmerizing Julie Andrews (the original Eliza Doolittle), was not used in this film version of the stage musical, we must give Audrey Hepburn credit for her "loverly" interpretation of the role. It is definitely a credit to the judgement and vision of director, George Cukor, the he chose to use Rex Harrison, who truly WAS Dr. Henry Higgins on the stage, and decided to keep in the movie, as well. The chemistry between Hepburn and Harrison is real and believeable, as the complexities of their relationship, as pupil and professor, carry into something of a more personal and (possibly) romantic nature. This is, of course, left to the interpretation of the beholder. Though, the legendary song, "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," crooned toward the end, by Higgins (Harrison) definitely insinuates that their relationship was more than just one of the an academic nature. <
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>This is a film that has stood the test of time, does not come off as dated, and is totally "loverly." Check it out!