My Fair Lady (film) at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all the attendant expenses if Higgins succeeds. Higgins agrees, and describes how women ruin lives ("I'm an Ordinary Man"). Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, learns of his daughter's new residence ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). He shows up at Higgins' house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack
Eliza Doolittle (singer) recording artist. She chose the stage name of "Eliza Doolittle", the "Pygmalion" and "My Fair Lady" character, because it was her nickname as a child. Eliza had a brief career on stage playing Young Cosette in "Les Misérables" in London's West End in 1996-1997. Her parents had met and began their relationship during the original production when her father was the co-director and her mother played Eponine. Eliza went on to play the lead role in Lucy Simon's Tony Award-winning musical version of "The Secret Garden" in 2001, when The Royal Shakespeare Company premiered the show in London. Before entering