London in film success of some of these 1960s films helped to make up for "London Town", Britain's first Technicolor musical, which was a high-profile flop in 1946. "Mary Poppins" (1964) was a critical and popular success, winning multiple Oscars for its editing, music (including Best Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee"), and visual effects (notably the scene combining live action and animation). Lead actress Julie Andrews won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Also in 1964, Audrey Hepburn starred in "My Fair Lady", the film of the musical of the George Bernard Shaw play "Pygmalion". George Cukor's decision to award the role of
David Seymour (photographer) in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. Chim was born to Polish Jewish parents in Warsaw in 1911. David had a sister, Eileen, who was three years older. Their parents were Regina and Benjamin Szymin, a respected publisher of Yiddish and Hebrew books. In 1914 Chim and his parents emigrated to Odessa just as World War I had begun. In 1919 they returned to Warsaw. Chim studied graphic arts in Leipzig and then traveled to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. It was while Chim was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris that he became interested in photography. He began