My Fair Lady

[poliphilo]

I wish I liked Rogers and Hammerstein more. Oscar Hammerstein was obviously such a nice man. But it's the music- it's so smooth and sweet. Listening to one of their scores is like bathing in milk chocolate.

So if I can't take R&H, how am I to explain my love of My Fair Lady? Maybe it's just an Audrey Hepburn thing.

Audrey Hepburn + Rex Harrison + Stanley Holloway + Cecil Beaton + George Bernard Shaw. OK, the songs are chocolately, but it's bitter chocolate. One thing you don't get in Hammerstein's work is wit.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

As for Audrey- I just think she was the most beautiful woman who ever lived.

She was in Robin and Marian, right? I liked her in that movie, thought she aged well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that's a favourite of mine. And I don't think Sean Connery has ever been better.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Sean Connery.

(sigh)