My Fair Lady My Fair Lady (1964) this musical is about Eliza Doolittle's magical change from a lower class flower girl into a fine lady. My Fair Lady became a highly successful movie. It received 12 Academy Award nominations in 1964 and won eight Academy’s. It is a comedy but the movie has romance and heartbreak. There are romantic songs like ‘I could have danced all night’ and humorous ones like ‘I’m just an ordinary man’ Meeting Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering & Professor Higgens In the opening scene of My fair Lady we meet the main characters, Professor Henry Higgens (Rex Harrison) a professor of phonetics, Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) a