Summary My Fair Lady

Summary My Fair Lady movie was directed by George Cukor which the story was adapted from the Musical Broadway ‘My Fair Lady’ written by Alan Jay Lerner. The setting of this story is in London, England in 1912. The story is about one day, the London phonetics professor Henry Higgins observed the Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle who tried to sell her two bunches of violets outside St. Paul's Church after the opera had ended and people came out. When she knew she was being watched, she came to Higgins and yelled at him. After he heard about her working class Cockney accent, Higgins, who was very confident in his ability in phonetics, boasted that he could pass her off as a duchess at the Embassy Ball if he could have a chance to train her. Then later, she came to Professor Higgins’ house and asked for a speaking lesson from him because she wanted to speak more genteel and could be a lady in a flower shop instead of selling flower on the streets. Colonel Pickering, the Henry Higgins’ friend who stayed in his house, then demanded Higgins to do what he had boasted. Higgins felt excited to do it and easily accepted the challenge, so the tough, ruthless six months training to transform Eliza to become a lady began. Before he would pass her off as a lady to fool people at the Embassy Ball, he asked his mother for permission to test Eliza out at her Ascot race party first. The attempt to fool people there that Eliza is a lady was failed, but Henry Higgins didn’t give up. He trained her harder in the left weeks and finally could totally trick all ladies and gentlemen at the Ball when the day came. However, he took all the credit for the success and forgot to acknowledge Eliza’s efforts. So, Eliza was mad and left him thinking she would marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill whom she met at Higgins’ mother Ascot race. In the end, both Higgins and Eliza found themselves couldn’t live without each other, so they came back together.