Most people don't get the ending. Higgins is not back to bossing her around with the phrase "Where the devil are my slippers". Eliza comes in and pokes fun at her self with the "I washed me face n' hands before I come I did" and then Higgins pokes fun AT HIMSELF with the phrase "Where the devil are my slippers" knowing that he was an arrogant egotistical idiot and that he knows he has to change! Which is why Eliza smiles at him. I actually think it was quite a nice ending :)
Trust me sweetie, there will come the day you can throw them slippers in his arrogant face and you will find the strength to leave his sorry old ass :p
I wish wish wish I had been able to sing this in the face of my arrogant, violent and foolish ex. He seemed to feel that HE had made ME. When the truth is, I am what I am DESPITE of him.
True facts: whenever I've been through a bad breakup and am feeling bad about myself, I watch this movie, sing along to this song as loud as I possibly can, and then turn it off before she goes back to him.
Wish the ending to the movie had been faithful toPygmalion ... it makes this entire song, this entire maturity and development of Doolittle's character completely empty, instead of empowering, like it should be.
These old musicals show how man-woman relationships really develop, not like all the brainless things they teach us nowadays.
Irritated and hurt with your man? Act indifferent - that´s more likely to get him interested than flashing your boobs or whatever. Lots of wisdom in the classics!
@kogoNIKKI I don't know if someone's already explained this, but it depends what you mean. If you don't know what the expression means, it's like...well, it's actually hard to explain if you've never heard it. It's an expression kinda like saying, "By God, I did it." But I don't know if that's said... If you're wondering why he exclaimed it, but know what it means, he's kind of excited because he's seeing his "creation" at work.
@kogoNIKKI The Bible, Exodus Chapter 20 : "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain" - Higgins simply avoids saying "(I swear) by God" ,he substitutes "God" for "George". Some people say "By Jupiter" or "By Jove". It is a so called euphemism - using mild or indirect expression instead of direct or blunt one.
They always destroy the original stories. The producers force the writers to do so. At least the music is so great. That's really the most important thing.
I so wish they'd have kept the ending the same as in Pygmalion, where this would have been the final scene, thus implying that Eliza married Freddy and Higgins got the boot. :)
And Shaw said EXPLICITLY she did not return to Higgins - which is logical - why the fuck WOULD she? The actors kept on tacking on her returning to Higgins in the performances at the turn of the century in Pygmalion - because it was UNTHINKABLE that Eliza would be THAT independent. Poor Shaw had to write a lengthy postscript stating this, then even wrote a SEQUEL with Eliza having spurned Higgins and living with Freddie.
@TalkinXbox Well, in the movie at least, it looks like she loves him (not necessarily in an amorous way)... I didn't see or read the play, so I can't judge, but in the movie I think it makes sense hat she comes back to him. But it would also make sense if she wouldn't, I have to agree. After all we can suppose she only comes back, in the end of the movie, to make peace...
I kind of liked that they didn't kiss at the end, because you could tell Higgins was happy she came back, obviously, but it was very like him to play it cool, and not show it.
@AlexandreFilho1705 audrey has more of an alto voice... you can tell because most people have lower ranges if they have a longer face, which audrey does...hence why she did not sing the parts...if you see her in funny face, the part/range is perfect for her! just making a point...(:
@awesomegal2000 Audrey Hepburn does all the acting for this movie, but the singing is all done by Marni Nixon. Julie Andrews was the original actress and singer for the play whenever it first came out, but she is not a part of the movie at all.
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@UcantResistClicking0 yeah i knew that, in the first four seasons he modeled stewies accent after rex, and also did a few episodes in reference and parody of this movie, but after it was brought back from cancellation his voice was revised and modeled after david hyde peirce, i liked the old stewie better though, david is no replacement for rex
I think fetching slippers can be viewed either as being submissive or being affectionate. If Prof. Higgins does an equal number of loving things for Eliza, then it's a very nice partnership on an even keel.
like i have said before...i love this movie...it's one of my faves...but she acts all tough and independent in this scene...later in the end she ends up fetching his slippers... really?...
@cosme2364 I agree completely. That was the one major flaw in this movie, I feel. It was a great movie and I absolutely love it, but they could have ended it perfectly well if it was slightly different and she didn't turn into some obedient housewife all of a sudden. I miss the old Eliza. She should have said screw you, get your own slippers and sat down with him.
@berriesrbest well its not like they could change it without making people mad since it was already a play before they made the movie and some of the actors/actresses in the play were also in the movie, like rex harrison
@berriesrbest I can't be more agree with you both. I feel sad every time I watch the end. It makes me feel sort of disappointed. Maybe I'm overreacting but I think her attitude at the end betrays her character in every sense.
&PS Marni Nixon is a terrific singer but her voice doesn't match Audrey's very well. It's especially jarring in this clip when they switch from one to the other.
One of my favorite lines in the entire movie "No, my reverberating friend. You are not the beginning and the end...Somehow Keats will survive without you."
I've had some very trying times lately with someone I had held in very, very high regard, much like Eliza and Higgins. This helped me a great deal and I've sung it to myself I don't know how many times and thought it the times I've chatted with him.
Audrey Hepburn was the ideal actress for this role, and Marni Nixon sung the part much better than Julie Andrews. Andrews didn't put enough feeling into her version. Besides, julie Andrews wasn't as graceful or beautiful as Audrey heburn, and she sounds nothing like her, so it wouldn't have fit if she'd taken Marni nixon's part.
This is coming from someone who really likes Julie Andrews.
Not only does Julie Andrews sing this number much better than Marni Nixon but she pronounces each word very clearly. That must be one of the teachings of Julie's teacher Lillian Stiles-Allen.
@Meskenit That wasn't the case in Shaw's original version of the play. But he changed the ending for the movie and that's the version Lerner & Loewe used.
@Meskenit I used to feel the same, but then I read the original play (Pygmalion) by G. B. Shaw. In the play, Eliza DOES leave and marries Freddy, but within a few months they are penniless, and she goes to the Prof for help, and by then he misses her so much that he invites her to move back into her old room. She says "But I'm married now... what about Freddy?" Prof: "He doesn't take up much room, bring him too!" and they all (Pickering still lives there too!) live happily ever after. :-)
@Meskenit I used to feel the same, but then I read the original play (Pygmalion) by G. B. Shaw. In the play, Eliza DOES leave and marries Freddy, but within a few months they are penniless, and she goes to the Prof for help, and by then he misses her so much that he invites her to move back into her old room. She says "But I'm married now... what about Freddy?" Prof: "He doesn't take up much room, bring him too!" and they all (Pickering still lives there too!) live happily ever after. :-)
@Meskenit I always saw it more as now she realises she doesn't need him, but she still wants him, which is what love really is. And her strength and independance kinda makes Higgins like her more, as he's not used to being challenged. That's just me though. :)
@SNICKERFACED Completely agree. I saw it as her fulfilling her dream that she outlined in the beginning. Real love is being able to walk away, but choosing not to.
@Meskenit But if you look at her dream, it was to have the life she had with him. She was still empowered, only she finally demanded that he show emotion and stop treating her like a student. It was a perfect ending, showing the change from gutter rat to high life, and getting the confidence in order to get what she wanted.
@Meskenit This is my favorite movie of all time but I too hate the ending...I know its an irony to hate the ending of your favorite movie but....she didn't do that in the book...I suppose Hollywood had to have its happy ending but they could have at least kept us guessing like the author said....he didn't know if she would go back or not.
In the original story she doesn't go back to Higgins. She actually starts up her own speech business and laughs to the bank while Higgins fall for him.
In the original story she doesn't go back to Higgins. She actually starts up her own speech business and laughs to the bank while Higgins fall for her
@Meskenit No it doesnt contradict it, It actually shows Eliza's power. She chose to go back, but because as she says earlier in the film that they were "Pleasant together" they had a professional/friendly relationship not a romantic one and though she went back, I believe she did it out of pitty for him, because she truly loved him, though I doubt she would settle for a less than equal relationship, perhaps as a language tutor along side of him
@Meskenit In the play she doesn't go back but so many people changed it when they put on their own productions that Shaw was forced to write a second play in which Eliza was living happily with Freddy so that people would stop changing the ending.
Audrey herself said that by right the role should have gone to Julie, but Warners wasn't going to give it to her, and when it came down to the final decision on the movie Audrey said "it was between myself and another girl". I always wondered who the "other girl" was (think it was Elizabeth Taylor).
Someone has a first-rate sense of humor for having referred me to this, given my inquiry about blocking.
But I still don't understand why I was blocked. Did they think I was being a pompous, overly-didactic Henry Higgins type? Again, if so, I can reform and improve.
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Perhaps people should get their facts straight before posting. Hepburn indeed could not sing. The film's singing parts were actually dubbed by Julie Andrews.
Julie Andrews was passed over entirely for the part because they didn't think she could pull it off on screen.
"My Fair Lady" received many Oscars that year. Strangely, it didn't get the one for Best Actress, which was won by "Mary Poppins" female lead...Julie Andrews!
@Narrowgaugefilms I think they were right, dispite Ms Hepburns lack of singing talent, can yo honestly see anyone else but her in the gowns, the film is a design and cinematigraphical classic, it is image based, even though it is a musical the design takes president, and Audrey Hepburn is crucial to that look.
Absolutely true: I can't imagine anybody else but Audrey Hepburn in the role, but a lot of that comes from seeing her there so much she kind of owns the role.
@mickstery6 i would like ot say here that Ms Hepburn did not have a lack of singing talent she was rather a pleasant singer in fact however she was not known for her singing but her acting and she wasn't as good as Ms Andrews so they used Marni Nixon's voice
@julie11061 Perhaps, I should have said, "Comparitive singing talent" I do love her rendition of Moon River, but i have heard her recordings for My Fair Lady, and they do not merit the film. She is still one of my favourite actresses.
@mickstery6 Yes she is a terrific actress! I know what you mean it's just that some people overreact about Miss Hepburn's acting ability just because she didn't sing in MFL however I do agree with you.
And frank, I hope you die of cancer and I hope it's very painful... although, I don't mean any of that, as I wouldn't wish that on anyone, clearly I am just a better and more intelligent person than you...
Despite the fact that Marni Nixon does all the singing here and her voice is beyond excellent, Audrey Hepburn still steals the show in this scene. Her facial expressions and the way she walks and conducts herself in this scene shows what a brilliant first class actress she was. I've rarely seen so much passion and expression in a performance
exactly! just like in "i could've danced all night", audrey looks so in love you completely fofget she isnt singing! same with natalie wood in west side story!
haha, i have it all on my iPod. along with west side story, annie, legally blonde, hairspray, wicked, wizard of oz, little mermaid (broadway), and mamma mia! omg! im such a theatre geek!
You know, in the end, Andrews was the one who won the Oscar, not Hepburn. She won it for being Mary Poppins. We all appreciate her for her work and are glad that she won that Oscar. End of story. I think Hepburn did a wonderful job acting, even if she didn't sing. This movie is a masterpiece and I'm extremely glad that I own a copy.
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EcriverEtre 1 week ago
Most people don't get the ending. Higgins is not back to bossing her around with the phrase "Where the devil are my slippers". Eliza comes in and pokes fun at her self with the "I washed me face n' hands before I come I did" and then Higgins pokes fun AT HIMSELF with the phrase "Where the devil are my slippers" knowing that he was an arrogant egotistical idiot and that he knows he has to change! Which is why Eliza smiles at him. I actually think it was quite a nice ending :)
Moonwalker764 2 weeks ago 2
Her dress in this scene. I NEED IT IN MY LIFE.
GaladedridDamodred 3 weeks ago 3
@GaladedridDamodred What about that Embassy Ball dress? It could work as a wedding dress today.
Galastel 1 day ago
I won't find out what comes after this part until next year lol
GetChewyREALChewy 1 month ago
And there still will be rain
On that plain down in Spain
Even that will remain without you!!
hollys14 1 month ago
You who have taught so well,
You can go to ... HEARTFORD HERAFORD AND HAMPSHIRE!
charlecinho 1 month ago 6
I don't like it when Eliza returns to Higgins, he doesn't deserve her. He's so rude, he's the "heartless guttersnipe"!
charlecinho 1 month ago 5
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charlecinho 1 month ago
Trust me sweetie, there will come the day you can throw them slippers in his arrogant face and you will find the strength to leave his sorry old ass :p
SabrinaHerman 2 months ago 3
I listen to this far too often for a 14 year old girl.
hisHORRORcupcake 2 months ago 11
i freeking love this song but it always bothers me a bit that he cuts her off when shes trying to say " i can do bloody well without you!"
Endrawnia 2 months ago 2
HELL YEAH ELIZA!!!SHOW HIM THAT HE IS A ZERO!!!!
xenialinakaterina 3 months ago
And what does he do after she leaves? Like a good man, he yells for Mother LOL!
1Bornconfused 3 months ago 3
We all like her like this, duckie, that's why the movie should have ended when you finish singing "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"!
(Does anybody know how can I get the original audio wih Audrey Hepburn singing?)
RaphaellaAngelz 3 months ago
@RaphaellaAngelz just put in youtube audrey hepburn without you.
VICTORZITOSS 2 months ago
@RaphaellaAngelz the original play that this was based off of, Pygmalion, ended sadly. (although there was no musical :p)
0RedTree0 2 months ago
When I first saw this song, when I was little, I really thought she was going to kill him.
Cat2000Lover 3 months ago
It's mutton-headed dolt... But close enough :D
SockCooker01 4 months ago
love the dress!!!
TheKatemilligan 4 months ago 5
I wish wish wish I had been able to sing this in the face of my arrogant, violent and foolish ex. He seemed to feel that HE had made ME. When the truth is, I am what I am DESPITE of him.
NickyLess 5 months ago
True facts: whenever I've been through a bad breakup and am feeling bad about myself, I watch this movie, sing along to this song as loud as I possibly can, and then turn it off before she goes back to him.
8cmn 5 months ago
THIS IS WHERE THE FILM SHOULD HAVE ENDED.
uminatsuko 5 months ago 30
@uminatsuko I know...I hate that she goes back to him!
jeterlover03 1 month ago
@uminatsuko Why? :( I love them together.
612chanchan 1 month ago
He's a retard( I mean a "man"). lol
27loldie 5 months ago
The tipycal engligh arrogance, she was already a very inteligent person and he claims he did her!!
LaEspriella 5 months ago
Wish the ending to the movie had been faithful toPygmalion ... it makes this entire song, this entire maturity and development of Doolittle's character completely empty, instead of empowering, like it should be.
Nani101 5 months ago
Ahhh she played you Professor Higgins, lol!
OnlyDeji 6 months ago
@Cafeblanx Actually that would be mademoiselle.
trunzina 6 months ago
These old musicals show how man-woman relationships really develop, not like all the brainless things they teach us nowadays.
Irritated and hurt with your man? Act indifferent - that´s more likely to get him interested than flashing your boobs or whatever. Lots of wisdom in the classics!
trunzina 6 months ago
One of my all time favorites. I used songs like this to learn to sing when I was a kid. Want to know how I sing now? Come find out!
TheClassicalVoice 7 months ago
Please can someone explain me why does Higgins say: by george? :) thank you
kogoNIKKI 7 months ago
@kogoNIKKI I don't know if someone's already explained this, but it depends what you mean. If you don't know what the expression means, it's like...well, it's actually hard to explain if you've never heard it. It's an expression kinda like saying, "By God, I did it." But I don't know if that's said... If you're wondering why he exclaimed it, but know what it means, he's kind of excited because he's seeing his "creation" at work.
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@kogoNIKKI The Bible, Exodus Chapter 20 : "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain" - Higgins simply avoids saying "(I swear) by God" ,he substitutes "God" for "George". Some people say "By Jupiter" or "By Jove". It is a so called euphemism - using mild or indirect expression instead of direct or blunt one.
irina5767 5 months ago
heh, a consort battleship :)) need one like that myself...
thorn3000 7 months ago
Two people were addle-pated fools.
PyxisHazel 7 months ago
@PyxisHazel
I'm pretty sure it's atabated...it refers to a kind of beating or drumming. So she mans like, beat-down...
Fiondra 6 months ago
There was a guy at my old school who acted just like Higgins. He (according to him) could do everything, and was always right.
Cat2000Lover 7 months ago
"Without your pulling it the tide comes in,
Without your twirling it the earth can spin.
Without your pushing them them the clouds roll by,
IF THEY CAN DO WITHOUT YOU DUCKIE SO CAN I!
starburstbottle 8 months ago 53
Higgins you are an ASS. . . but a good natured one.
ARP7777777 8 months ago
SeaShellLady: Because contrary to what she talks about, she loves him, obviously.
SmartK8 8 months ago
yeah I never understood why she went back
SeaShellLady 8 months ago
Family Guy!
Blueracer66 8 months ago
Really? I loved the ending (besides the fact that it ended on a cliffhanger). I like Eliza/Professor Higgins.
RisaLovelyComplex 8 months ago 5
They always destroy the original stories. The producers force the writers to do so. At least the music is so great. That's really the most important thing.
WorldCupSeoul 8 months ago
2:33
calvinkkw 9 months ago
I so wish they'd have kept the ending the same as in Pygmalion, where this would have been the final scene, thus implying that Eliza married Freddy and Higgins got the boot. :)
Testorshia 9 months ago
Anyone else notice that Mr. Higgins said Idea with the 'r' edge at the end? 0:35
1BeautifulSacrafice8 10 months ago
@1BeautifulSacrafice8 lol, that IS funny
veggiet2009 9 months ago
This is one of the best songs in the movie. The other best is a Hymn to Him. I love all the references she makes to his teaching!
Disneyballerina 10 months ago
"you impetent hussy..." LOL
UzALyinDevil 10 months ago
This is the song that i'll sing to my crappy roommate,and i'm out the door. :)
359lillian 10 months ago
this is where the movie should have ended
eclipsemoon9 10 months ago
Wow...was it really necessary for that one guy to dislike this?
ataraxy729 10 months ago
wow this is a cruel song XD
omeromer1234 11 months ago
Marni Nixon sang for Audrey Hepburn in this movie. She did parts, like in The Rain in Spain, but most was sung by Nixon, NOT Julie Andrews.
And yes, she returns in the end as if they are a comfortable old married couple as he barks for her to bring him his slippers : )
wynnepoints 11 months ago
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wynnepoints 11 months ago
I'm pretty sure Julie Andrews is singing this...
I love the dress! This show is just incredible.
cjsuljic 11 months ago 3
DUCKY. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AnnetheQueene16 11 months ago
"You impudent hussy!"
This play is so great.
Fiondra 11 months ago 3
i'm gonna keep this sound track, that way if i ever need to break up with someone i'll be ready
doctorwhom1 11 months ago
And Shaw said EXPLICITLY she did not return to Higgins - which is logical - why the fuck WOULD she? The actors kept on tacking on her returning to Higgins in the performances at the turn of the century in Pygmalion - because it was UNTHINKABLE that Eliza would be THAT independent. Poor Shaw had to write a lengthy postscript stating this, then even wrote a SEQUEL with Eliza having spurned Higgins and living with Freddie.
TalkinXbox 11 months ago
@TalkinXbox Well, in the movie at least, it looks like she loves him (not necessarily in an amorous way)... I didn't see or read the play, so I can't judge, but in the movie I think it makes sense hat she comes back to him. But it would also make sense if she wouldn't, I have to agree. After all we can suppose she only comes back, in the end of the movie, to make peace...
JulieWinchester 11 months ago
"If they can do without you Ducky, so can I!"
Haha, I loved how exquisitely Harrison acted in this, shouting out in a frantic sort of way in the middle of her sentence. Details; details.
Maddybonbon 11 months ago
"you dear friend who taught so well
you can go to hartford, hereford, and hampshire!"
:) love it
(love this song)
sage7897 11 months ago
I can't stand that they didn't kiss at the end of the movie.
jilliancnow23 1 year ago
@jilliancnow23
I kind of liked that they didn't kiss at the end, because you could tell Higgins was happy she came back, obviously, but it was very like him to play it cool, and not show it.
KtotheY77 10 months ago
Bravo! Eliza....
trw1501 1 year ago
This doesn't sound like the version on my movie or on my soundtrack? :(
Tinker13ee 1 year ago
Marni Nixon did brilliantly with 1:19 - 1:33.
mbabitt 1 year ago 3
"MOTHER!!!!"
"Yes dear?"
"She's gone..."
XxEvilTiggerxX 1 year ago 6
Audrey's own voice is better. Marni Nixon's is so... unnatural.
AlexandreFilho1705 1 year ago
@AlexandreFilho1705 and you're tone def. :P
CrystalLightning1 1 year ago
@AlexandreFilho1705 audrey has more of an alto voice... you can tell because most people have lower ranges if they have a longer face, which audrey does...hence why she did not sing the parts...if you see her in funny face, the part/range is perfect for her! just making a point...(:
bArLoWgirlfan116 1 year ago
@bArLoWgirlfan116 im confused... who is this? audrey or julie andrews?? whos singing i need to know pls :(
awesomegal2000 11 months ago
@awesomegal2000 Audrey Hepburn does all the acting for this movie, but the singing is all done by Marni Nixon. Julie Andrews was the original actress and singer for the play whenever it first came out, but she is not a part of the movie at all.
Artemis6789876 11 months ago
God She is Beautiful!!! and soooo graceful
jtco3 1 year ago
"You impotent Hussy!"
XD
Caram3lLov33 1 year ago 6
perfect song perfect casting nuff sed
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Julie Andrews sings this a thousand times better than whoever sang this (Marni Nixon?)
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jeanettelieya 1 year ago
I love this song. Reminds me (more or less) of what I said to my ex-husband when I was leaving him. :-)
vegasrenie 1 year ago 5
Don't know what I like better. The dress or the song. But the song is just oh so wonderful.
ubersisters 1 year ago
I love it when hes all 'MOTHER! MOTHER!' 'yes dear?' 'she..shes gone' 'what do you expect?' LOL!!
ElxViraxCromwell 1 year ago 6
I LOVE this dress...I wonder where it is now, if it even still exists.
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@Scott6263 true. thats so disrespectful of him! nicely put
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@dontgetinahuf123 Thanks. He continues to do this all over YouTube. There is something seriously wrong with him. He needs to be banned completely.
Scott6263 1 year ago
Something you guys may not know: Voice Actor Seth MacFarlane got his inspiration to do the voice of 'Stewie Griffin' (Family Guy TV Show) from Rex Harrison.
UcantResistClicking0 1 year ago
@UcantResistClicking0 yeah i knew that, in the first four seasons he modeled stewies accent after rex, and also did a few episodes in reference and parody of this movie, but after it was brought back from cancellation his voice was revised and modeled after david hyde peirce, i liked the old stewie better though, david is no replacement for rex
Darion1A 1 year ago
I think fetching slippers can be viewed either as being submissive or being affectionate. If Prof. Higgins does an equal number of loving things for Eliza, then it's a very nice partnership on an even keel.
laylacalif 1 year ago
I love the scene where she chucks the slippers at him :) He deserved it!
MrQwerty626 1 year ago
They're planning to remake this I think in 2012. I think that's a horrible idea. This one is pretty much perfect. You have to love Rex Harrison.
MegaMozartfan 1 year ago
"You, dear friend who talk so well,
You can go to...
Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire."
LOL some brilliant stuff :)
musicandmochi 1 year ago 48
One of the best scenes and songs!
Tiffanysattic97 1 year ago
like i have said before...i love this movie...it's one of my faves...but she acts all tough and independent in this scene...later in the end she ends up fetching his slippers... really?...
cosme2364 1 year ago 3
@cosme2364 I agree completely. That was the one major flaw in this movie, I feel. It was a great movie and I absolutely love it, but they could have ended it perfectly well if it was slightly different and she didn't turn into some obedient housewife all of a sudden. I miss the old Eliza. She should have said screw you, get your own slippers and sat down with him.
berriesrbest 1 year ago
@berriesrbest well its not like they could change it without making people mad since it was already a play before they made the movie and some of the actors/actresses in the play were also in the movie, like rex harrison
thegirlulost2cocaine 1 year ago
@berriesrbest I can't be more agree with you both. I feel sad every time I watch the end. It makes me feel sort of disappointed. Maybe I'm overreacting but I think her attitude at the end betrays her character in every sense.
chatnoir60609 1 year ago 6
@cosme2364
But she CHOSE to do it rather than being harangued by Professor H to do it!
lkofron 1 year ago
That gown is so beautiful! The lyrics are fabulous!
drmrls1 1 year ago
1:50 - 2:10 is the best bit of that song imo.
Troublemaker1991 1 year ago 2
@Troublemaker1991 AGREED :]
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knifetn 1 year ago
&PS Marni Nixon is a terrific singer but her voice doesn't match Audrey's very well. It's especially jarring in this clip when they switch from one to the other.
ivelosthewilltolive 1 year ago 2
@ivelosthewilltolive I think because Audrey sounds like an alto and Marni was a sorprano and Marni's voice was too proper i noticed that
AloraRPhotography 1 year ago
One of my favorite lines in the entire movie "No, my reverberating friend. You are not the beginning and the end...Somehow Keats will survive without you."
Blackthorne369 1 year ago 3
You dear friend who talk so well
You can go to ....
Hartford, hereford and hampshire..
LOL LOVE IT
MyChemicalBlinkDay 1 year ago 2
I've had some very trying times lately with someone I had held in very, very high regard, much like Eliza and Higgins. This helped me a great deal and I've sung it to myself I don't know how many times and thought it the times I've chatted with him.
entices1 1 year ago 3
aaaww I wish the video extended to the part where Higgins cries for his mother
"She's gone."
"Well of course she is, dear."
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But all the same I'm grateful to you for sharing this : ]
SenzaNomeThi3f 1 year ago 2
Audrey Hepburn was the ideal actress for this role, and Marni Nixon sung the part much better than Julie Andrews. Andrews didn't put enough feeling into her version. Besides, julie Andrews wasn't as graceful or beautiful as Audrey heburn, and she sounds nothing like her, so it wouldn't have fit if she'd taken Marni nixon's part.
This is coming from someone who really likes Julie Andrews.
Penguinfan744 1 year ago
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Hepburn was a talentless CUNT. I'm glad she died of CANCER.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Not only does Julie Andrews sing this number much better than Marni Nixon but she pronounces each word very clearly. That must be one of the teachings of Julie's teacher Lillian Stiles-Allen.
Operalover12002 1 year ago
I adore this song, but I hate how Eliza goes back to Higgins in the end. It totally contradicts the empowerment she exhibits in this song.
Meskenit 1 year ago 33
@Meskenit That wasn't the case in Shaw's original version of the play. But he changed the ending for the movie and that's the version Lerner & Loewe used.
ivelosthewilltolive 1 year ago
@Meskenit I used to feel the same, but then I read the original play (Pygmalion) by G. B. Shaw. In the play, Eliza DOES leave and marries Freddy, but within a few months they are penniless, and she goes to the Prof for help, and by then he misses her so much that he invites her to move back into her old room. She says "But I'm married now... what about Freddy?" Prof: "He doesn't take up much room, bring him too!" and they all (Pickering still lives there too!) live happily ever after. :-)
PartyArtByRobin 10 months ago
@Meskenit I used to feel the same, but then I read the original play (Pygmalion) by G. B. Shaw. In the play, Eliza DOES leave and marries Freddy, but within a few months they are penniless, and she goes to the Prof for help, and by then he misses her so much that he invites her to move back into her old room. She says "But I'm married now... what about Freddy?" Prof: "He doesn't take up much room, bring him too!" and they all (Pickering still lives there too!) live happily ever after. :-)
PartyArtByRobin 10 months ago 3
@Meskenit but it also exhibits how love and having feelings for someone can completely overpower it. I don't blame you, though.
VictorianRomantic 10 months ago
@Meskenit I always saw it more as now she realises she doesn't need him, but she still wants him, which is what love really is. And her strength and independance kinda makes Higgins like her more, as he's not used to being challenged. That's just me though. :)
SNICKERFACED 10 months ago
@SNICKERFACED Completely agree. I saw it as her fulfilling her dream that she outlined in the beginning. Real love is being able to walk away, but choosing not to.
bluefootedpig 10 months ago
@Meskenit But if you look at her dream, it was to have the life she had with him. She was still empowered, only she finally demanded that he show emotion and stop treating her like a student. It was a perfect ending, showing the change from gutter rat to high life, and getting the confidence in order to get what she wanted.
bluefootedpig 10 months ago
@Meskenit This is my favorite movie of all time but I too hate the ending...I know its an irony to hate the ending of your favorite movie but....she didn't do that in the book...I suppose Hollywood had to have its happy ending but they could have at least kept us guessing like the author said....he didn't know if she would go back or not.
frogledy 9 months ago
@Meskenit
In the original story she doesn't go back to Higgins. She actually starts up her own speech business and laughs to the bank while Higgins fall for him.
vampiricange 9 months ago
@Meskenit
In the original story she doesn't go back to Higgins. She actually starts up her own speech business and laughs to the bank while Higgins fall for her
vampiricange 9 months ago
@vampiricange Really? Then I obviously prefer the original ending and Higgins should have admitted that he fell for her
bluejeanette19 9 months ago
@Meskenit No it doesnt contradict it, It actually shows Eliza's power. She chose to go back, but because as she says earlier in the film that they were "Pleasant together" they had a professional/friendly relationship not a romantic one and though she went back, I believe she did it out of pitty for him, because she truly loved him, though I doubt she would settle for a less than equal relationship, perhaps as a language tutor along side of him
veggiet2009 9 months ago
@Meskenit In the play she doesn't go back but so many people changed it when they put on their own productions that Shaw was forced to write a second play in which Eliza was living happily with Freddy so that people would stop changing the ending.
Aluriaphin 6 months ago
her voice is quite squeaky and annoying.
fullfist 1 year ago
Audrey herself said that by right the role should have gone to Julie, but Warners wasn't going to give it to her, and when it came down to the final decision on the movie Audrey said "it was between myself and another girl". I always wondered who the "other girl" was (think it was Elizabeth Taylor).
DanRobSo 1 year ago 3
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The talentless cunt Hepburn was far too OLD to play Eliza and couldn't sing for shit.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
"You shall not be seeing me again" <-- I love how coldy she says that.
Terras1fan 1 year ago 2
Someone has a first-rate sense of humor for having referred me to this, given my inquiry about blocking.
But I still don't understand why I was blocked. Did they think I was being a pompous, overly-didactic Henry Higgins type? Again, if so, I can reform and improve.
ProNorden 2 years ago
@thunderwinde hepburn was actually dubbed by marni nixon all except one song. andrews was the stage actress for 'my fair lady' tho :]
bexestabueno 2 years ago 2
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Perhaps people should get their facts straight before posting. Hepburn indeed could not sing. The film's singing parts were actually dubbed by Julie Andrews.
thunderwinde 2 years ago
Julie Andrews was passed over entirely for the part because they didn't think she could pull it off on screen.
"My Fair Lady" received many Oscars that year. Strangely, it didn't get the one for Best Actress, which was won by "Mary Poppins" female lead...Julie Andrews!
Narrowgaugefilms 1 year ago
@Narrowgaugefilms I think they were right, dispite Ms Hepburns lack of singing talent, can yo honestly see anyone else but her in the gowns, the film is a design and cinematigraphical classic, it is image based, even though it is a musical the design takes president, and Audrey Hepburn is crucial to that look.
mickstery6 1 year ago
Absolutely true: I can't imagine anybody else but Audrey Hepburn in the role, but a lot of that comes from seeing her there so much she kind of owns the role.
I just like the Oscar story!
Narrowgaugefilms 1 year ago
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Hepburn ruined the whole fucking movie, the talentless overage cunt.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
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Hepoburn was far too OLD to play Eliza. I'm glad she died of cancer.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@mickstery6 i would like ot say here that Ms Hepburn did not have a lack of singing talent she was rather a pleasant singer in fact however she was not known for her singing but her acting and she wasn't as good as Ms Andrews so they used Marni Nixon's voice
julie11061 1 year ago
@julie11061 Perhaps, I should have said, "Comparitive singing talent" I do love her rendition of Moon River, but i have heard her recordings for My Fair Lady, and they do not merit the film. She is still one of my favourite actresses.
mickstery6 1 year ago
@mickstery6 Yes she is a terrific actress! I know what you mean it's just that some people overreact about Miss Hepburn's acting ability just because she didn't sing in MFL however I do agree with you.
julie11061 1 year ago
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Strangely? The talentless cunt Hepburn ruined the whole fucking movie. So glad she died of CANCER.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
It wasn't Julie Andrews, dear. It was Marni Nixon, and I think she's better anyhow. I love this song, and the movie version is my favorite version.
JadeLondonStudios 1 year ago 3
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Marni Nixon was fucking useless and this film is a piece of fucking crap. I am GLAD that Audrey Hepburn died of cancer.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
Love this song!
ruemusical 2 years ago
I love this song, but I get SO frustrated when Higgins misses the point. Grr!
gamgee87 2 years ago
I love this movie and this song! Probably one of my favs from this movie. Just love how she basically tells him off.
Dukelover07 2 years ago 3
It would have been nice to have her real voice on this! still, lovely!
derdriui 2 years ago
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Hepburn couldn't fucking sing for shit.
FrankClanton 2 years ago
Hey, Frank,
Are you sure you want to comment on Late Mrs Hepburn?
I think you're a mentally retarded pathetic chap who wants to show off how he has learnt a new word (i.e. "shit')
aritrayou 2 years ago 4
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I'm glad Hepburn died of cancer. I hope her death was VERY painful.
FrankClanton 2 years ago
And that's all you can come up with?
Something already posted by none other than yourself in some other video?
Take my advice, get out of here and hole up with somethings like yourself.
At least you won't be lambasted on every word you utter!
aritrayou 2 years ago
And frank, I hope you die of cancer and I hope it's very painful... although, I don't mean any of that, as I wouldn't wish that on anyone, clearly I am just a better and more intelligent person than you...
It must be horrible to have no friends....
easy1355 2 years ago
2:03-2:10 YES.
bellaciao11 2 years ago
i lovveedd thisss dresss soo much!
colagirl107 2 years ago 9
haha... I wanted to write this right now but I decided to read the comments before... and I found yours :D
Leryshka 2 years ago
btw the first time i ever heard 1:26 i was completely fooled, i thought she would say something that rhymed with "well"
0RedTree0 2 years ago 5
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im hooked on this song and the horse scene one XDXDXDXDXDXD X3
0RedTree0 2 years ago
Despite the fact that Marni Nixon does all the singing here and her voice is beyond excellent, Audrey Hepburn still steals the show in this scene. Her facial expressions and the way she walks and conducts herself in this scene shows what a brilliant first class actress she was. I've rarely seen so much passion and expression in a performance
PD1981 2 years ago 22
exactly! just like in "i could've danced all night", audrey looks so in love you completely fofget she isnt singing! same with natalie wood in west side story!
westsidestory97 2 years ago
Beautiful dress - so feminine!
mycatsweetheart 2 years ago 5
yeah personally i think femaninitys gone out of women now but thats just my opinion
princessbabyfirefly 2 years ago
This is the version from the film; it is Marni Nixon. This was not Audrey Hepburn.
ordonarc18 2 years ago
I love the movie, and listen to the soundtrack every day
laurelespp 2 years ago 3
Me too!
shaylahill455 2 years ago
haha, i have it all on my iPod. along with west side story, annie, legally blonde, hairspray, wicked, wizard of oz, little mermaid (broadway), and mamma mia! omg! im such a theatre geek!
westsidestory97 2 years ago 11
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Every people know that is julie andrews who sings
TCM420 2 years ago
You mean Marni Nixon.
SamiclausGAK 2 years ago
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she is Audrey Hepburn, and she is singing here too...
jmaryke 2 years ago
Audrey was so lovely!!
marion0499 2 years ago 13
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SCENES AND SONGS!
movi3srock 2 years ago 58
You know, in the end, Andrews was the one who won the Oscar, not Hepburn. She won it for being Mary Poppins. We all appreciate her for her work and are glad that she won that Oscar. End of story. I think Hepburn did a wonderful job acting, even if she didn't sing. This movie is a masterpiece and I'm extremely glad that I own a copy.
7up7down289 2 years ago 66