![]() ![]() He is both stern and humorous, his vocals in both song and word are alive and nothing less than perfect. Rex Harrison certainly deserved his Best Actor Oscar as misanthropic phoneticist Henry Higgins. He won Best Director Oscar for this and didn't make another film for five years. The direction is perfectly on target for late career George Cukor. It would have made a great bookend for his film career. This one has fabulous music, magnificent art design, quite a bit of great dry humor, and perfect casting - except I really wish James Cagney had taken the part of Eliza's father. ![]() That one didn't age well in a bunch of ways. ![]() Gigi, which won Best Picture of 1958, has a young woman's relatives trying to turn her into a prostitute, from which she wisely figures out there is no coming back, while Maurice Chevalier musically ogles little girls from the shelter of the bushes. Looking back on them in the context of the 1960s they seem downright anachronistic. ![]()
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