Wouldn't it Be Loverly - Julie Andrews (My Fair Lady )

Julie Andrews created Eliza Doolittle on the original stage version of My Fair Lady, later she wouldn't be called to play Eliza in the movie version, Audrey Hepburn was the star of the movie... but I still think Julie would be so much better for the part! But had Julie been in My Fair lady (the movie) would we have Mary Poppins as we know it today? No we wouldn't! So here it is a slideshow of photos from the Original Broadway play and cast, starring Julie Andrews & Rex Harrison ... and Julie Andrews singing Wouldn't it Be Loverly like no one else will ever sing it! And it seems I was born in the wrong decade, and in the wrong place! I so wish I could have a way of seeing her performing this...live!

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I just want to spread the Julieness!

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[daydreambeliever37]

i love both women (Audrey and Julie). they are both very talented (although Julie Andrews is the better singer by far), but if Andrews had been cast in My Fair Lady, who would be Mary Poppins?

[catiaadao]

I feel the same! Although I believe that Walt Disney would proably wait for Julie to finish shooting My Fair Lady, and she'd still be Mary Poppins! Because he did wait until Julie had her daughter, and I'm guessing the movie would even take less time than a pregnancy, so I think Julie could have easily done both! :)

[LionWingenedMunki39]

I Think Hepburn has a good Cockney accent

[Anni Smythe]

Time to put this show back on Broadway and the West End with Faryl as Eliza!

[John G. Lewis]

Yes... "My Fair Lady", the movie, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, came out the very year of Julie Andrews' rise to fame (1964) ... for the movie "Mary Poppins", and which earned the latter an Academy award for Best Actress. [Yet... did not Audrey do a fine job?] In 1965, Julie Andrews would be nominated again for best actress, but would lose this year to Julie Christie ("Darling").

Was not "The Sound of Music" also a Broadway play? If so, who played the female lead in it?

[John G. Lewis]

Interesting that Rex Harrison got increasingly more handsome as the years rolled on, for him. Check him out in the fascinating 1930's "Night Train to Munich" - one of the best directed movies of that decade: and you may not recognize him. Oddly, he would play a German military officer in that movie.

[AllMusicPop]

Agree with Aero - The studio didn't think Julie Andrews had enough box office appeal to star her in the film version so they cast Audrey Hepburn - an established Hollywood star.. Meanwhile - Marni Nixon dubbed the singing for Audrey Hepburn in MFL - Julie Andrews went on to win the Oscar for Mary Poppins. A Happy Ending for sure. I love both stars, both movies.

[Carlos González]

maybe... who knows.. still Audrey Hepburn was also a lovely star

[MrRJMGREEN]

That is a good point you made. I would have to agree. You should be a casting agent. :)