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
Charles Victor Jackson, and stayed with it for 10 years. Late in life, Victor toured internationally in the role of Alfred P. Doolittle in "My Fair Lady", performing the role on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on 19 March 1961 during a tribute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Charles Victor Charles Victor (10 February 1896 – 23 December 1965) was a British actor who appeared in a number of film and television roles between 1931 and 1965. He was born Charles Victor Harvey. Born in Southport, Lancashire, England, Victor was a fourth-generation English music hall entertainer. He left school when he