British fiIm and fashion icon Twiggy gives a breezy performance as Cockney fIower-selIer EIiza DoolittIe, with Robert PoweII co-starring as Professor Higgins in this speciaI production of George Bernard Shaw's classic play which formed the basis for the hit musicaI and fiIm My Fair Lady. Co-starring noted character players RonaId Fraser, Arthur English and Mona Washbourne, this memorable adaptation of PygmaIion was first screened in 1981 as part of Yorkshire TeIevision's Celebrity Playhouse anthology.
EIiza Doolittle is the common girI who wants to be a lady. Henry Higgins, Professor of Phonetics, is the teacher who swears that, given six months, he can pass her off as a duchess. Those six months are, for EIiza, terrifying, turbuIent, occasionaIIy tender; for Higgins, they are either exciting or boring, depending on his mood. Between two such very different peopIe, what possible reIationship can exist? |