He developed Electrical Porcelain with transmission engineers at GE. His family continued to work at Building 68 in Schenectady for decades. William's son Frank Cermak advanced insulator design into the mid 20th century.
When Rex Harrison accepted his Academy Award for My Fair Lady (1964), he dedicated it to his two fair ladies, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews both who had played Eliza Doolittle with him.
A Romance in Five Acts. When Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the greatest musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award winning motion picture.