Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 173 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
- transformation
- musical
- flower girl
- colonel
- suitor
- wager
- class differences
- tutor
- aristocrat
- linguist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Audrey Hepburn
Eliza Doolittle
Rex Harrison
Professor Henry Higgins
Stanley Holloway
Alfred P. Doolittle
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Colonel Hugh Pickering
- Gladys Cooper — Mrs. Higgins
- Jeremy Brett — Freddy Eynsford-Hill
- Theodore Bikel — Zoltan Karpathy
- Mona Washbourne — Mrs. Pearce
- Isobel Elsom — Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
- John Holland — Butler
- Marni Nixon — Eliza Doolittle (singing voice) (uncredited)
- Colin Kenny — Ad Lib at Church (uncredited)
- Bert Stevens — Gentleman (uncredited)
- Frank Baker — Gentleman (uncredited)
- Marjorie Bennett — Cockney with Pipe (uncredited)
- Directed
- George Cukor
- Written
- Alan Jay Lerner
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,445 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
