Lunch and a Movie: My Fair Lady (1963)

Bring your lunch (beverages provided) and enjoy the next two in our summer movie musical series! This month, we're focusing on the work of the legendary Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. This musicalization of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion is one of the greatest stage and film musicals of all time. Arrogant language professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) believes, radically for the Edwardian age, that social class is a matter of language and manners, not birth or blood. Overhearing the Cockney speech of flower seller Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), he bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can pass her off as an upper-class lady by teaching her proper language. Eliza, desperate for a chance to escape a life of poverty, takes him up on his bet. Higgins, who's not exactly the soul of tact (or enlightened in his views on women), trains her ruthlessly...and succeeds beyond his wildest dreams when Eliza makes a sensation at the Embassy's ball. But when he dismisses her accomplishment and takes all the credit for it, she rebels against him...causing him to confront his own feelings for his "creation." No signups required. Popcorn generously donated by Regal Cinemas.

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