Linguist Henry Higgins picks up Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl and, with his friend Colonel Pickering determines to make her a lady. She moves into Higgins’ house and trains until finally he thinks she is ready for a trial — his mother’s box at Ascot. She performs well at first, but when the race begins, she gets excited and the Cockney comes out. Six weeks later, she’s ready again, this time for the Embassy Ball. Things seem to go awry when Zoltan Karpathy, known for rooting out society frauds, concentrates on Eliza. But she pulls it off and fools Zoltan and everyone else. Higgins takes all the credit for himself and Eliza storms off. She tries to return to the streets where she came from, but soon realizes she doesn’t fit there or anywhere. She ends up at Mrs. Higgins’ house, Henry comes by, disconsolate from losing Eliza. They confront each other and leave separately, but Eliza returns in the end to Henry’s house. Which disappointed me.

• From IMDB — Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, despite Hepburn's lengthy preparation for the role.

• From IMDB — Because of the way Rex Harrison sang/talked his musical numbers, they were unable to prerecord them and have him lip-sync, so a wireless microphone (one of the first ever developed) was rigged up and hidden under his tie.

Thoroughly enjoyable. Harrison and Hepburn play their parts perfectly. The songs are fun. The only quibble I have is the way it ended. Eliza should have never have gone back.

But the thing I like most about the movie is the house Henry Higgins lives in — wood paneling, wood floors, great spaces and a library to die for.