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
Stanley Holloway on stage and screen Titfield Thunderbolt" (1953), which confirmed Holloway as a mainstay of British cinema. His final film with the studio was "Meet Mr. Lucifer" (1953). In 1956, Holloway revived his flagging career, creating the role of Alfred P. Doolittle in the extraordinarily successful original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady", which was made into a hit film in 1964 with Holloway in the same role. Owing to the film's success, he was able to get good roles in more films, including "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" alongside Herman's Hermits. His films in the early 1970s included "The Private Life of