my fair lady 1964 full movie download free My Fair Lady and West Side Story 'ghost singer' Marni Nixon dies, aged 86. Marni Nixon, the singer whose voice can be heard filling in for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, has died aged 86, according to the New York Times. Randy Banner, a friend and student, said she died from breast cancer. Nixon, whose full name was Margaret Nixon McEathron, was born in 1930 in California. As a child, she sang in professional choruses before studying to become a classical soprano. However, after discovering her aptitude for dubbing other people’s singing performances, MGM gave her work sharpening up the vocal efforts of established stars. Watch Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in My Fair Lady. In the late 1940s, she provided the singing voice of child actor Margaret O’Brien, most notably in the 1949 adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. In 1953, Nixon performed the high notes that Marilyn Monroe was unable to reach in Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend in the film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Then came a major assignment: working with Deborah Kerr on the musical numbers for The King and I, 20th Century Fox’s big musical hit of 1956. Kerr went on to receive an Oscar nomination for best actress. Nixon was later to provide the singing voices of Natalie Wood in West Side Story in 1961 and for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, in 1964. Both films won Oscars for best picture. Watch Audrey Hepburn sing I Could Have Danced All Night in My Fair Lady. Although Nixon was uncredited for her work, it was not quite as big a secret as supposed: a 1964 article in Time magazine described her as “the ghostess with the mostest”. Describing her dubbing career as “just a part of the working singer’s job in Hollywood”, Nixon credited Hepburn with understanding that “she had to accept that [her singing] wasn’t quite what it should be, but that “Wood’s ego [couldn’t] take that.” At the same time, Nixon secured small roles on screen, including as one of the nuns in The Sound of Music (she’s the one who sings “But her penitence is real”). Nixon taught singing, at the California Institute of Arts and, later, at the Music Academy of the West, also in California. She combined sporadic film work, including a vocal performance as Grandmother Fa in the 1998 Disney cartoon Mulan, with operatic parts and concert recitals, and in the 2000s took roles on Broadway in revivals of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies and Maury Yeston’s Nine. In 2006 she published an autobiography, I Could Have Sung All Night. Watch Tonight from West Side Story, featuring Marni Nixon. Nixon was married three times, most recently to musician Albert Block, who died in 2015. She had three children with her first husband, soundtrack composer Ernest Gold; one of whom, the musician Andrew Gold, died in 2011. This article was amended on 16 July 2016 to reflect the fact Nixon was predeceased by her son, Andrew Gold. My Fair Lady Reviews. This Best Picture, a musical reworking of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," is about a pompous, acid-tongued professor of linguistics (Best Actor Rex Harrison) who tries to refine an ill-mannered, uneducated guttersnipe and pass her off as a princess in six months. The film won a total of eight Oscars. Though Audrey Hepburn, who received a fee of $1 million to play the role Julie Andrews originated on the Broadway stage, is less convincing in her transformation from guttersnipe to lady than Wendy Hiller was in PYGMALION (1938), the basis for MY FAIR LADY, this remains one of her best-loved roles. The story was drawn from the legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, and this is one of the rare classic musicals that doesn't have a title song — its name comes from the child's ditty about London Bridge falling down. The movie opens as Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison, who originated the role on stage) meets Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfred Hyde-White, also a member of the original cast) as they are leaving the theater. It turns out that the two have admired each other's work in linguistics for years. Higgins hears Eliza Doolittle (Hepburn) bawling in a cockney accent of singular gracelessness and makes a bet with Pickering that he can turn her into a lady with an accent so pure no one will guess her background. The men make her an offer, but she declines. Later she arrives at Higgins's home, where Pickering is now staying, with money for diction lessons; she hopes to improve her accent sufficiently to get her a job in a shop rather than selling on the street. Higgins finds her delightfully tacky and agrees to tutor her. The two men work hard with Eliza until they feel she is ready to be seen and heard in public. Then they squire her to the races at Ascot, where she meets and charms Higgins's dowager mother, Mrs. Higgins (Gladys Cooper) and young Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett), a vapid man who, as Oscar Wilde said of Algernon, "has nothing, but looks everything." Later they take her to a huge social event, where she is the belle of the ball. Eliza convinces even Zoltan Karpathy (Theodore Bikel) — a noted linguist and notorious braggart who claims that he can tell anyone's background from speech clues — that she is of royal background. But playing with people's lives is never without consequences, and Higgins must eventually face the fact that Liza is a complex young woman, not just guinea pig with whom he can trifle until he's bored. At 10 minutes less than three hours the musical is a trifle long, although audiences didn't seem to mind. Only Harrison, Hyde-White and Olive Reeves-Smith (who played Mrs. Hopkins) had acted in the play, and this was the final film for Henry Daniell, who had been so brilliant in so many others; he died just before the picture was released. The songs by Lerner and Loewe are glorious, and include include "Why Can't the English?" (sung by Harrison ), "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" (Hepburn/Nixon and chorus), "I'm an Ordinary Man" (Harrison), "With a Little Bit of Luck" (sung by Harrison, Holloway, Alderson, McLiam), "Just You Wait, 'Enry 'Iggins" (Hepburn/Nixon), "The Servant's Chorus" (sung by chorus), "The Rain in Spain" (Hepburn/Nixon, Harrison, Hyde-White), "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Hepburn/Nixon and chorus), "Ascot Gavotte" (chorus), "On the Street Where You Live" (sung by Brett, Shirley), "The Embassy Waltz," "You Did It" (Hyde-White, Harrison and chorus), "Show Me" (Hepburn/Nixon), "The Flower Market," "Get Me to the Church on Time" (Holloway and chorus), "A Hymn to Him" (Harrison), "Without You" (Hepburn/Nixon) and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Harrison). The lyrics closely reflect the dialog in the original PYGMALION (both the play and the Leslie Howard-Wendy Hiller film) because the Shaw estate insisted that much of the original material be retained and lyricist Lerner did his best to comply. Lerner, whose family owned the Lerner Shops chain of women's-clothing stores, worked on the lyrics for this film at his uncle's "hunting lodge" — a full floor in a building on the corner of 5th Avenue and 57th Street that the uncle kept because his wife didn't like his animal trophies at home. Lerner and Loewe also wrote in a rented house on the estate of Burgess Meredith in New York City and in Loewe's Palm Springs home. MY FAIR LADY, for all its kudos, often seems "bloodless" and never achieves the heights of the production that ran on the Mark Hellinger Theater stage eight times each week from 1956 through 1962. Its transition from stage to screen was littered with obstacles, most pertaining to casting. Legendary studio head Jack Warner, then nearly 70, may have been getting a little soft in the head; he originally wanted Cary Grant or Rock Hudson to play Higgins and James Cagney to be Mr. Doolittle. To his eternal credit, Grant said that if Warner chose anyone but Rex Harrison he wouldn't even bother to see the film. But Warner was worried. He'd put up more than $5 million for the rights to the musical, earmarked nearly $20 million for production costs and made a deal that promised the authors and producers of the stage show almost 50 percent of the net; his attempt to bolster his position with sure-fire stars led to the casting of Hepburn rather than Julie Andrews, who originated the role on Broadway. As it turned out, the picture made a fortune and took Oscars in almost every category that year-- the one glaring exception being Best Actress, an award given to Andrews for MARY POPPINS; Hepburn wasn't even nominated. MY FAIR LADY won for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Color Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Musical Score, Best Sound, and Best Art Direction. Other nominations included Best Supporting Actor (Holloway), Best Supporting Actress (Cooper), Best Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. Cukor and designer Beaton never saw eye to eye on the movie and battled from start to finish. Those disagreements did not hurt the film one bit, and both men carted awards away from the Oscar ceremonies. 142 My Fair Lady 1964 Movie Premium High Res Photos. Browse 142 my fair lady 1964 movie stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Choose your country or region. United States. Hi IBMer! The IBM strategic repository for digital assets such as images and videos is located at dam.ibm.com. This repository is populated with tens of thousands of assets and should be your first stop for asset selection. Click here to request Getty Images Premium Access through IBM Creative Design Services. My Fair Lady. Cynical and stuck up linguistics professor Henry Higgins works in London teaching the wealthy how to speak properly. He makes a bet with a colleague that he can turn impoverished and unpolished guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle into a real lady after the flower seller comes to him seeking lessons. Her cockney accents make her difficult to understand and impedes her from reaching her goal of working in an actual flower shop. She can't afford the lessons from Higgins, who usually trains and works with the very rich, but Higgins' colleague offers to pay for the lessons and makes the bet. Higgins accepts and subjects Eliza to several speech exercises for many days to no avail. Higgins is strict and treats her badly, but Eliza endures. One day she has a sudden break through and understands, speaking perfectly. Higgins tries out her new accent at a horse race. The aristocrats present are impressed with her until she slips into her cockney accent. The ball is a success and Eliza charms many and even fools Karpathy, an old language student of Higgins' that he dislikes. Despite how well she is doing, Eliza has a fight with Higgins later and leaves him, upset that he is getting all the praise for her progress, that he treated her poorly and that he doesn't seem to care what will happen to her now that the bet is won. Eliza returns to her old home only and finds she no longer fits in. With nowhere else to turn she goes to Higgins' mother, who also becomes upset at the way her son has treated Eliza. When he comes to find her and apologize, Eliza gets her revenge on him by telling him that she plans to work with his enemy Karpathy and to marry an aristocrat before she leaves. Just as Higgins realizes he truly misses her, Eliza comes back to him. My Fair Lady is an Romance Drama Music movie that was released in 1964 and has a run time of 2 hr 51 min. It has received outstanding reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.8 and a MetaScore of 95. Where do I stream My Fair Lady online? My Fair Lady is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Google Play online. Some platforms allow you to rent My Fair Lady for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device. Mary Jo Vitale plays Eliza Doolittle in upcoming production of ‘My Fair Lady’ Put them all together and you have three main characters in “My Fair Lady,” which plays Savannah Center March 12-14. Alex Santoriello, Mary Jo Vitale and Mark Steven Schmidt understand that the essence of the musical is self-discovery and transformation. Each performer brings something personal and reflective to the roles of Henry Higgins (Santoriello), Eliza Doolittle (Vitale) and Freddy Hill (Schmidt). The ‘My Fair Lady’ cast shares a tender moment with, from left, Alex Santoriello as Henry Higgins, Mary Jo Vitale as Eliza Doolittle, and Dan Pona as Col. Pickering. Vitale plays Eliza with a naive charm that morphs into hard-earned self-confidence. “She has to be a strong woman, because she is a survivor,” Vitale said during a break in a recent rehearsal break. Eliza’s mental and physical makeover at the hands of Professor Higgins is the core of the Lerner and Loewe musical, based on the play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw. “My Fair Lady” is directed by Santoriello and produced by Joan Knapton of KC Productions. Also in the cast: Dan Pona as Col. Pickering, Janet Maloney as Mrs. Higgins, Tim Casey as Alfred Doolittle and Billie Thatcher as Mrs. Pearce. But the fate of Eliza Doolittle is the central focus. “Eliza has to become something she’s not,” said Vitale, whose operatic voice and dynamic stage presence flesh out Doolittle. Vitale is also brimming with confidence and it shows in her portrayal of the new Eliza after she endures Higgins’ teaching torment to master language and culture. “Eliza has an identity after she becomes a lady,” Vitale said. “She has self-respect and she knows she’s worth more as a human being, than ever before.” Higgins, meanwhile, must confront and overcome his own personal challenges. “At first I had a lot of difficulty with this role,” said Santoriello, a veteran of the Broadway stage adding he saw a lot of himself in this character. Santoriello, as a director and on stage, can be loud and demanding. Off stage, he can be quiet and pensive. Santoriello is an accomplished theatrical teacher, with an uncanny ability to mold actors and bring out their best performances. “Higgins can be difficult but you have to see the humanity in the man,” Santoriello said. “I think Higgins is offering Eliza the opportunity to change the pecking order of class through education. When Shaw wrote his play (1913), it showed the (second-class) status of women. Higgins enables Eliza to change for the better.” Mark Steven Schmidt plays Freddy, who woos Eliza, played by Mary Jo Vitale in ‘My Fair Lady.’ Higgins and Doolittle have a strained relationship, but there is an undercurrent of romance between them. “It starts as an adversarial relationship but they grow closer to each other,” Vitale said. “They do develop a mutual respect for each other. But this is not a love story; it’s a story about a woman finding herself.” Love, however, is in the air for Freddy Eynsford-Hill, played by Mark Steven Schmidt. He has appeared in local operas, but said this is his first stage musical in eight years. Freddy is head over heels for Eliza and playing him is a whimsical challenge. “He’s a fun character and a bit of a mama’s boy,” Schmidt said. “The hardest part is getting the proper accent, but Alex has been helping me and I’m working hard to get it right.” Schmidt is also getting used to being in the middle of a musical. “It’s been a long time, I’m still getting in stage shape,” the handsome tenor said. “Everyone has been great to me. I’m just happy to be a part of ‘My Fair Lady’.” The cast of ‘My Fair Lady’ gets ready for its run March 12-14 in Savannah Center. One of the highlights of the musical, is when Schmidt sings, “On The Street Where You Live.” “When Mark sings that song, it’s just amazing,” Vitale said. “He has such a passion for singing, and he has worked so hard in this role.” Santoriello agreed. “Mark has that timeless voice. He is doing a great job.” Also in the cast of characters: John Rogerson, Gerry Sherman and Dave Olsen. Choreography is by Violet Ray.