My Fair Lady on TCM

You didn't see it in theaters a couple weeks ago as part of Fathom's TCM event?

I think Freddie was a dandy. At least his doodle was. I'd yank it.

Why DID Colonel Pickering spend so much time over at Professor Higgins' place? Hmmmmm?

Its great through her "I'm a now a lady" debut at the ball; it should have ended there, but it drags on for another hour past that.

Why can't we buy this movie digitally?

Don't need to see it again. I've seen the Broadway revival twice within the past year, two different Eliza's, with Laura Benanti the better of the two.

Freddy is an idiot. His mother sends him out to find a taxi and can't find one. He mistakes cockney for 'the new small talk' and is subsequently completely bowled over by Eliza to the point that he sulks and mopes. Eliza knows he is a vacuous twit. She knows she is 100 times smarter than Freddy. In a world so stacked against women, he would provide some financial security, but also a lifetime of boredom. He is a way out of Higgins' house, but it would soon become a deeply unsatisfying life.

There is NO WAY that she belongs with Freddy, though at least in PYGMALION, she very well may.

If Henry Higgins was a bachelor, why did he need so many servants?

If you want to hear the truth about MFL from someone who was there, you should friend Christopher Riordan on Facebook. He has all the dirt!

It goes on and on and on and on . . .

The frocks are fab, though. And I prefer AH's singing voice (DVD extra) to Miss Marni's.

It would have been better with Mary Martin.

I'm watching it right now and enjoying it. Brings back good memories of going to see it at some huge old theater in Maryland with my father. He loved it so much we bought the album of the play and he played it all the time.

Thanks OP. I would have missed it without your post.

I was at the Warner lot last week and walked down "the street where she lives."

Every duke and earl and peer is here!

Even as a child with no concept of male-female love relationships, I could not see Henry and Eliza together. He seemed asexual to me, someone who's mostly into words and maybe antiquities. She needed someone with more life and passion.

"CLAWS IN, YOU CAT!"

I just love Henry Higgins' mother's kitchen/parlor/whatever. Now that's what I call open plan!

[quote]How can Eliza not have ended up with Freddie? It should have been clear to her that Professor Higgins was a dandy.

Ironic, since the actor who played Freddie was a fancy man in real life.