“Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly?”

This line, from the song “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” that appears in the 1964 movie My Fair Lady, showcases the continuous search for success and happiness throughout the film.

My Fair Lady starts off a little slowly and is a bit confusing at first, but it eventually draws you so far in that you can’t look away even for a second.

This Warner Bros. film is based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It stars the famed Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) as Eliza Doolittle, and Rex Harrison (Dr. Doolittle) as Professor Henry Higgins.

As he is coming out of a London theater one night, Professor Higgins meets a fellow linguist, Colonel Pickering. They strike up a conversation, which eventually leads to Higgins boasting that he could take any woman off the streets and train her so that her speech could someday be mistaken for that of a duchess. Eliza Doolittle, a flower peddler with a pronounced Cockney accent, overhears Higgins’ statement, makes her way to his home, and takes him up on his claim.

The film is rated ‘G’, but is best suited for older kids and adults because the movie runs nearly three hours. Younger kids probably wouldn’t be able to sit through it for that long. There is also one cussing may not want their children to see the film. Finally, there are no kid actors in My Fair Lady, so it's difficult for small children to relate to it.

Overall, this movie has been highly acclaimed. It won eight Academy Awards and three Golden Globes, including Best Picture at each event. It also received high praise from most top American movie critics.