My Bare Lady recalls the "Pygmalion"-inspired musical "My Fair Lady" by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, popularized in a film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn. Based on the success of the debut season a second series was launched called "My Bare Lady 2: Open for Business." The series debuted on Fox Reality Channel on Saturday, November 8, 2008 and was divided into eight half-hour episodes. The show placed four adult entertainment stars in the same house for a month in Los Angeles and adopted a reality format similar to the first season to provide an in depth look at the daily goings on.
The King and I (1956 film) O'Hara, who had a pleasant soprano voice, was originally cast, but Richard Rodgers did not agree to the casting. It was Yul Brynner who pressed for Deborah Kerr to play the role. Marni Nixon provided Kerr's singing for the film. Nixon and Kerr worked side-by-side in the recording studio for songs which combined speaking and singing. Nixon would also dub Kerr's singing the following year, for the film "An Affair to Remember". Donald Bogle's biography of Dorothy Dandridge claims that Dandridge was offered the role of Tuptim in partial fulfillment of her three-picture contract with 20th Century-Fox, but that Dandridge