My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adaptation of the Lerner
and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1938 film adaptation of
the original 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. With a
screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film
depicts a poor Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle who overhears an
arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that
he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her
presentable in the high society of Edwardian London.
The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
