| Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins Sir Rex Harrison is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society | Audrey Hepburn looks the part |
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| Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill Jeremy Brett |
Cecil Beaton's designs bring the screen to life and in the newly restored version it looks 'loverly'.
15| the cream of the 1960s | Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society |
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| His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle Audrey Hepburn , who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects | Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society |