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
Eliza Doolittle Jim! One evening the king will say: 'Oh, Liza, old thing, I want all of England your praises to sing. Next week on the twentieth of May I proclaim ‘Liza Doolittle Day!' </poem> Fans of "My Fair Lady" have ever after been fond of making an informal observance of Eliza Doolittle Day each May 20. Eliza Doolittle Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character from London who appears in the play "Pygmalion" (George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and the musical version of that play, "My Fair Lady". Eliza is a Cockney flower girl, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution