Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stolen Time." Clowning as a flapper was one thing. Carrying the difficult role of Eliza in My Fair Lady demanded a depth that Julie had to struggle to reach. It was almost a year after Boy Friend opened that she was offered the part in Fair Lady-and she nearly threw it away, so intimidated was she by the awful challenge of the trinity of Rex Harrison, Director Moss Hart and George Bernard Shaw. When she failed to get a fix on the mercurial part of the cockney flower girl, Director Hart put Julie through what he called 48 hours...
...Good Trouper." By the time Fair Lady opened in New Haven, Julie was the onstage backbone of the show and a walloping hit. Backstage she was the funny bone of the company-brewing up high tea every afternoon, expertly picking every pocket in the cast, bounding into her old music-hall routines. Everyone but Harrison was amused, but in the New York premiere he, too, came to appreciate Julie. As the stage manager recalls it, during the first act when Eliza, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering fall back on the couch together after The Rain in Spain, Harrison suddenly dried...
Street Arab. Toward the end of her Fair Lady run, Julie and Tony Walton got married. He had become a noted stage and costume designer in London, and for a brief moment Julie considered retiring. "But," as Tony says, "work was the only thing she knew." And besides, Moss Hart, with Lerner and Frederick Loewe, authors of My Fair Lady, wanted Julie to play opposite Burton in Camelot, a stylish retelling of the Arthurian legend. Camelot lacked the magic of Fair Lady, but audiences loved it. Julie had a ball too. Recalls Burton: "One night a large, woolly...
...worse disappointment was the news from Hollywood. Jack Warner, who had paid $5,500,000 for the film rights to My Fair Lady, did not want Julie for Eliza; it was the simplest sort of Hollywood economics: by Hollywood calculations, she was not an important enough marquee name to risk in a major film. Audrey Hepburn got the part, but though her performance was admirable, her cockney character lacked the wondrous snippety snarl that Julie had given the role; Eliza's singing, moreover, was largely a product of outside dubbing, and short of Julie's performance at that...
...both, and an Oscar winner to boot, although there was no doubt that the award was at least partly a consolation prize from Hollywood sentimentalists who thought Julie should have got the film role in Fair Lady...