Lerner and Loewe’s elegant, indestructible musical is one of those rare Broadway triumphs to be transferred to the big screen with practically every note and lyric intact. Warner’s plush film version also preserved for posterity the definitive performances of Rex Harrison as Professor Higgins (though Jack Warner originally wanted Cary Grant) and Stanley Holloway as Alfred Dolittle. But if the decision to replace Broadway’s radiant Julie Andrews (then a stranger to Hollywood) with the more bankable Audrey Hepburn remains a tad controversial, there is little doubt that Miss Hepburn made a captivatingly chic Eliza Dolittle; albeit with a singing voice provided by game dubber-for-the-stars, Marni Nixon.
Inevitably, the original soundtrack to My Fair Lady is remembered, like the film, for the absence of Julie Andrews, who starred in the Broadway and London stage productions, but was deemed, at least at the time when the casting decision had to be made, not enough of a star to carry the movie. (Embarrassingly, by the time the movie opened, Mary Poppins had made her more than enough of a star to do so.) Instead, Audrey Hepburn stepped into the role of the pre-World War I London flower girl Eliza Doolittle who aspires to a better accent and the social advantages that will come with it. Ironically, Hepburn’s voice was dubbed by Marni Nixon when it came to singing. (Nixon was an accomplished Hollywood voice ghost, having previously sung for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Rosalind Russell in Gypsy, among other assignments.) Rex Harrison re-created his stage role as the elocutionist, Professor Henry Higgins (he had also appeared in the film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, the source for My Fair Lady), as did Stanley Holloway, as Eliza’s flamboyant Cockney father. It was good that Harrison and Holloway got to immortalize their performances on film, but since both were making their third recordings of the score, they didn’t have much to add. Nixon (no doubt with bits of Hepburn here and there) was fine, but the composite performance lacked the flair that Andrews would have given it. The result was an acceptable recording that did not surpass the Broadway or London cast albums.
William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Tracklist:
01. Overture (3:28)
02. Why Can’t The English? (2:34)
03. Wouldn’t It Be Loverly (4:24)
04. I’m Just An Ordinary Man (4:35)
05. With A Little Bit Of Luck (2:28)
06. Just You Wait (3:00)
07. The Rain In Spain (2:16)
08. I Could Have Danced All Night (4:00)
09. Ascot Gavotte (3:09)
10. On The Street Where You Live (2:00)
11. You Did It (4:01)
12. Show Me (2:12)
13. Get Me To The Church On Time (3:26)
14. A Hymn To Him (3:38)
15. Without You (2:31)
16. I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face (4:53)
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