With “My Fair Lady”, George Cukor created what is probably one of the most famous musicals in film history. It is about a bet that the somewhat eccentric language professor Higgins makes with his friend Colonel Pickering. Higgins believes that people are also defined by their language. When he sees and hears the flower girl Eliza Doolittle in front of the London Opera, he is both repelled and fascinated. Loudly and in the slang of the London suburbs, she offers her violets to the refined opera audience. The eccentric Professor Higgins takes her on, and after his “training” the uneducated flower girl Eliza becomes a true lady.

Loan of the film print with kind support of HfG Karlsruhe.