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 in the role of Mrs. Higgins. In 1950, Nixon married the first of her three husbands, Ernest Gold, who composed the theme song to the movie "Exodus". They had three children, including singer and songwriter Andrew Gold. They divorced in 1969. She was married to Dr. Lajos "Fritz" Fenster from 1971 to 1975, and to woodwind player Albert Block from 1983 to his death in 2015. Nixon survived breast cancer in 1985 and 2000 but finally died from the disease on July 24, 2016, in New York, aged 86. On October 27, 2008, Nixon was presented with the Singer Symposium's