My Fair Lady (film) My Fair Lady (film) My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London. The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as
Marni Nixon supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in "An Affair to Remember". That year, she also sang for Sophia Loren in "Boy on a Dolphin". In 1960, she dubbed Janet Leigh's voice in "Pepe" and had an on-screen chorus role in "Can-Can". In 1961's "West Side Story", the studio kept her work on the film (as the singing voice of Natalie Wood's Maria) a secret from the actress, and Nixon also dubbed Rita Moreno's singing in the