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Fair Lady is not all Rex Harrison. Producer Herman Levin has outfitted it sumptuously with Cecil Beaton costumes and Oliver Smith sets, had Hanya Holm contrive romping dances under Covent Garden's soaring arches. Stanley Holloway, a hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation...
Harrison & Higgins, Inc. In Higgins, Rex Harrison plays a character close to his own-which may actually be more difficult than hiding behind King Lear's beard or Pistol's putty nose. Harrison and Higgins are both aggressively British and crisply upper crust. Both are absorbed in their work and in themselves. Both are curt, clear, complacent. Both can be beastly and charming at the same time. Or, as Rex puts it: "I always find it less difficult than some actors to be irascible without being unpleasant. I've taken over some of Higgins...
...schoolmasters remembers Rex as "what we called a posh boy, always neat and well groomed. Pretty unusual in a schoolboy. But he was likable...
Excruciatingly slow at his studies, Rex despaired of ever amounting to anything. Then he took part in a couple of school plays, and to his astonishment found himself applauded. His career was set, in a way that recalls H. L. Mencken's sour description of the sort of youth who generally gets stagestruck. "Is he," Mencken asked, "the alert, ingenious, ambitious young fellow? Is he ... the diligent reader, the hard student, the eager inquirer? No. He is, in the overwhelming main, the neighborhood fop and beau, the human clotheshorse, the nimble squire of dames. He seeks in the world...
...King and I (20th Century-Fox) has already completed one cycle (from Margaret Landon's bestselling 1944 novel, Anna and the King of Siam, to the 1946 movie, starring Rex Harrison and Irene Dunne) and is now busily completing another (from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical to the current film...