• Love in the Afternoon (Ariane)

Audrey is a young French cello player who quite accidentally and unexpectedly falls for Cooper, an aging American "player." It's a cute romantic comedy also featuring Maurice Chevalier, and it's director, Billy Wilder, does the best job making fun of the French I've yet seen on film -- everything from those huge keys they use to their famous dossiers. Very entertaining.

  • Funny Face

Audrey stars as a bookworm whom photographer Fred Astaire takes to Paris for a glamorous magazine photo shoot. Audrey did her own singing of George and Ira Gershwin's songs and was spectacularly dressed by Hubert de Givenchy.

  • My Fair Lady (not available)

In Greek mythology, Pygmalion, the king of Cyprus, found so much fault in womankind that he resolved to live unmarried. But after painstakingly sculpting a statue of a beautiful woman that he named Galatea, he came to regard his creation as so perfect that he fell in love with her. In 1913, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw adapted the myth to modern-day England and used his play about a phonetics professor's efforts to refine the speech and manner of a cockney flower girl for life among the gentry as a platform for social critique, demonstrating the artificiality of class distinctions in turn-of-the-century British society. In 1956, songwriters Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musicalized Shaw's "Pygmalion," and when film producer Jack L. Warner saw the Broadway premiere of MY FAIR LADY, he immediately began making plans for the most lavish movie musical in the history of Warner Bros.

dec 10 2010 ∞
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