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My Fair Lady
     
My Fair Lady
(1964) a US musical (=a film that uses singing and dancing to tell a story) in which Audrey Hepburn plays a poor young woman from London who is taught to speak and behave like an upper-class lady by a bad-tempered professor, played by Rex Harrison. It is based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
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