LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Pygmalion
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Candida
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Getting Married
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 stage play Pygmalion.
Detailed explanation-2: -My Fair Lady was based on Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw, which opened 100 years ago in New York and London.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main characters are exactly the same and the plot line is basically the same. Professor Henry Higgins bets Colonel Pickering that he can take a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, and teach her to speak and act like a lady so that he could pass her off as a ‘duchess’ at the ambassador’s garden party.
Detailed explanation-5: -Famously, after Shaw’s death in 1950 Pygmalion was adapted into the musical My Fair Lady – first performed on Broadway in 1956 and later made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn (1964).