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    Eliza Doolittle

    Fictional character from London who appears in the play Pygmalion and the musical version of that play, My Fair Lady

    Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Eliza is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden. Higgins goes along with it for the purposes of a wager: That he can turn her into the toast of elite London society. Her Cockney dialect includes words that are common among working class Londoners, such as ain't; "I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman" said Doolittle. Doolittle receives voice coaching and learns the rules of etiquette. The outcome of these attentions varies between the original play and the various adaptations. Wikipedia

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    Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Eliza (from Lisson Grove, London) is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden. Higgins goes along ...
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    My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty ...
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    My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach ...
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    Jan 14, 2025He believes Eliza will return to him, so he is happy, but we as an audience understand that he has likely lost her, partly because of his lack of self-awareness. His characterization remains consistent in My Fair Lady. (Some of the funniest bits of the film are playing on the fact that Higgins has no self-awareness.
  8. But I know that I shall always be a lady to Colonel Pickering, because he always treats me like a lady, and always will. Professor Henry Higgins : You see, the great secret, Eliza, is not a question of good manners or bad manners, or any particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls.
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    The character of Eliza is best seen by the progression which she makes from "a thing of stone," "a nothingness," a "guttersnipe," and a "squashed cabbage leaf' to the final act where she is an exquisite lady — totally self-possessed, a person who has in many ways surpassed her creator.
  10. newyorktheater.me

    Diana Rigg was Eliza in a 1974 Pygmalion, and Mrs. Higgins last year in the current Broadway revival of My Fair Lady. Click on the photographs to read the captions. Mrs. Patrick Campbell was the first Eliza Doolittle, here in the first London run of Pygmalion, at His Majesty's theatre in 1914 — a production that moved to Broadway later that ...
  11. My Fair Lady (1964) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... Menu. Movies. ... The bet is won when Eliza successfully poses as a mysterious lady of patently noble rank at an embassy ball, despite the unexpected presence of a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. Higgins's callous treatment of Eliza afterwards, especially his indifference ...

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