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
Eddie Albert 1955 in Boston. He performed at The Muny Theater in St. Louis, reprising the Harold Hill role in "The Music Man" in 1966 and playing Alfred P. Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" in 1968. In the 1950s, Albert appeared in film roles such as that of Lucille Ball's fiancé in "The Fuller Brush Girl" (1950), Bill Gorton in "The Sun Also Rises" (1957), and a traveling salesman in "Carrie" (1952). He was nominated for his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor with "Roman Holiday" (1953). In "Oklahoma!" (1955), he played a womanizing Persian peddler, and in "Who's Got the Action?"