My Fair Lady movie corrections

While Higgins is singing in the opening scene, he is sitting on a pillar and leaning over. He is shown leaning back up, but then the shot changes and he gets back up again. See more...

Cary Grant was offered the role of Henry Higgens by Warner Brothers. He turned it down and said that if any one other then Rex Harrison, the actor who was Higgens on the stage, got the part he would never do another film for WB. See more...

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My Fair Lady (1964) - 3 corrections

Directed by George Cukor, starring Audrey Hepburn (add more)

Genres: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance

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Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon. Hepburn was extremely disappointed in this, she had prepared for a long time, and didn't realize they were going to dub her. [Audrey Hepburn's voice was not dubbed 100% by Marni Nixon. Apparently, Hepburn sang the recitatives (that is, the 'half-spoken'stuff), most of 'Just you wait, 'enri Higgins, just you wait', and the beginnings of most - if not all - the songs. A close listen to the movie on screen and the movie soundtrack itself, should reveal most of the above.]

The lines "In France every Frenchman knows his language from A to Z; the French don't care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly" do not rhyme as "Z" is only called "zee" in the U.S. (Alan Jay Lerner, the lyricist, was of course American.) [The line about the French is an observational aside, completely out of the rhythm of the song, as such it doesn't matter whether it rhymes or not (since it doesn't scan anyway).]

Prof. Higgins, a world-renowned expert on the English language, makes three grammar/usage errors that would flunk him out of any 9th-grade English class. First: The song "Why Can't the English" contains the line, "By rights they should be taken out and hung . . . " (Pictures are hung; people are hanged.) Second: In "Let a Woman in Your Life," he sings, "I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling than to ever let a woman in my life." ("Equally as" is redundant, "to ever let" is a split infinitive and "than" should be "as." ) Shudder. [These "errors" are in songs. Allowances are made in the English language for the demands of verse.]

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