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 the voices of the angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in "Joan of Arc" (1948). The same year, she did her first dubbing work when she provided Margaret O'Brien's singing voice in 1948's "Big City" and then 1949's "The Secret Garden". She sang for Jeanne Crain in "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1950) and dubbed Marilyn Monroe's high notes in "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953). Also in 1953, she sang for Ida Lupino in "Jennifer". Nixon appeared on Broadway in 1954 in "The Girl in Pink Tights". In 1956, she worked closely with Deborah Kerr to