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.
Choosing the man doesn't make My Fair Lady a sexist movie; it makes it a movie about a sexist time. Of course, 50 years later, there's another version of My Fair Lady: Selfie, on ABC, is the newest to take up the Pygmalion mantel, when a male marketing exec rebrands a girl who has fouled up her social media presence. Let's see how they do it without Lerner and Loewe.