My Fair Lady

One of the activities planned for the forthcoming English Language Carnival is the screening of the 1964 movie "My Fair Lady". The reason the members of the English Language Department decided to screen this movie is because it is both educational and entertaining. The movie showcases the use of the Queen's English and Cockney English. This movie offered a musical retelling of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a lower-class girl who sells flowers on the street for money. Elitist, misogynistic phonetics expert Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) encounters her as she plies her wares and decides to take a challenge from cohort Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White): to use Higgins' theories of how dialect and accents establish our places in life and make it possible for Eliza to pass for a "lady" in a few weeks. The professor trains Eliza for six months. Initially, she has some problems during her elocution lessons and even makes an embarassing first appearance at the opening day of the Ascot Races. As the time passes, Higgins works his magic and inevitably, Eliza starts to turn into a swan. Although she experiences personal triumph within high society at the Embassy Ball, and wins her teacher's love, she storms off after being transformed - only to return by film's end.
Students who wish to watch the movie should give their names to their class monitors. At the end of the movie, students can take part in a contest in which they need to answer some questions about the movie as well as write out their opinions of the movie in 50 words or less.