Book Vs Movie: "My Fair Lady" (1964) Audrey Hepburn & "Pygmalion"

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie: “My Fair Lady” & “Pygmalion”</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The George Bernard Shaw Play Vs the George Cukor Movie Musical</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“March Musicals Month!” </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/MV5BNGM0ZTU3NmItZmRmMy00YWNjLWEzMWItYzg3MzcwZmM5NjdiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDYyMDk5MTU._V1_UY1200_CR12206301200_AL_.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="662" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos are working heavy on our diction to prepare for this ep. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The original story of</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pygmalion</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is based in Greek mythology where an artist falls in love with their own sculpture and is then rejected by them.  Irish playwright</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"><strong>George Bernard Shaw</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">took the material and in 1913 created the play which tells the story of</span> <a href= "https://www.britannica.com/topic/Henry-Higgins"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Henry Higgins</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a professor of phonetics who believes he can transform a person’s status in society by altering their accents and teaching them proper manners. </span></p> <p><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Doolittle"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Eliza Doolittle</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">enters this world as a poor woman who sells flowers to sustain herself as she exists in poverty. Professor Higgins’s friend Colonel Pickering has recently traveled to India and the two take on the idea of turning Dooltilte into a “Duchess” with proper training. She can’t afford lessons so it becomes a bet between Higgins and Pickering on how well she does. </span