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
George Rose (actor) suspicious storekeeper in William Hanley's "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground" (1964), a bitter soldier in Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1965), and the detective in Joe Orton's "Loot" (1968). His first Tony Award nomination was for his portrayal of Louis Greff, Coco Chanel's friend, in the musical "Coco" in 1969. In the 1974 comedy "My Fat Friend", opposite Lynn Redgrave, he won a Drama Desk Award and received another Tony nomination. In 1976, he finally won a Tony as Alfred P. Doolittle in the Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady". He received further acclaim in the role