Word: eliza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, in print, Producer Herman Levin asked everyone to perform a willed act of amnesia and forget that Rex Harrison ever played Professor Higgins and Julie Andrews played Eliza Doolittle. That is impossible...
Phonetic Retard. While still as elegant as it was before, My Fair Lady has changed in texture because of its principals. Harrison's brittle disdain matched Bernard Shaw's glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort...
Kaptelov requested from Schlesinger photocopies of parts of the manuscript collections of Vera Dean, Louise Stroughton, Mary Winsor and Eliza Bowditch van Loon, all of whom were American women who had travelled to or had special interest in Russia. The Schlesinger Library does not hold literary rights for several of the collections in question...
...Eliza Collins, associate editor of the Harvard Business Review responsible for the article, said yesterday that she is sure that the nearly 160,000 subscribers, most of whom are business executives, would take the article as it was intended. She also said that the publishers have not yet received any complaints about the article...
...about this ethereal world. It plays tonight with Letter From an Unknown Woman with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jordan. and starting Sunday, Asquith's version of Pygmallon, with Leslie Howard playing Higgins young and tough-as-nails, which sometimes works well. Wendy hiller's Eliza Doolittle is absolutely amazing. Playing with arguably Katherine Hepburn's best work, Summertime, seldom shown. When Hepburn talked to Cavett in those interviews, Summertime was the film she remembered best...