With a Little Bit of Luck With a Little Bit of Luck "With a Little Bit of Luck" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play "My Fair Lady". It was sung by Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle in both the original stage and film versions. It is sung by Eliza's bin man father, Alfred P. Doolittle and is about a list of everyday situations which one finds themselves in, and a desire to take the easy way out as "With a Little Bit of Luck" one's fate might change, thus avoiding any responsibility. The song
Alfred Schieske Sir Toby Belch (German: Tobias Rülps) in "Twelfth Night". He played Vladimir in "Waiting for Godot", Adam in "The Broken Jug", Götz in "Götz von Berlichingen" and Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". In 1961, in one of his most successful roles, he began playing Alfred P. Doolittle (Eliza's father) in the musical "My Fair Lady", first in Berlin, then Hamburg. Schieske's most important film role was in the 1948 DEFA production, the "Blum Affair", playing Otto Bonte, a criminal investigator who saves a Jewish man falsely accused of a crime, saves him and brings the real