My Fair Lady

Cecil Beaton (subject)
George Cukor (director)
Alan Jay Lerner (play, screenwriter)
George Bernard Shaw (play)
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway (starring)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1964. Vintage publicity photograph of art director Cecil Beaton on the set of the 1964 film. SIGNED by Beaton in manuscript ink to the top left corner of the recto. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.

Based on the 1956 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe, itself adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play "Pygmalion." Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Rex Harrison, reprising his Broadway and West End role as Henry Higgins.

Noted photographer, writer, and interior designer Cecil Beaton served as art director for the film, and received the Academy Award for Best Production Design for his work, alongside Gene Allen and George James Hopkins.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good, lightly edgeworn and wavy, with faint soil to the corners.

Ebert III.


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