Eliza Doolittle Day

It is time to watch
My Fair Lady

"One day I’ll be famous! I’ll be proper and prim;
Go to St. James so often I will call it St. Jim!
One evening the king will say:
‘Oh, Liza, old thing,
I want all of England your praises to sing.
Next week on the twentieth of May
I proclaim ‘Liza Doolittle Day!"





The movie, My Fair Lady, is all about a Professor taking a girl off the streets and teaching her how to speak like the highly educated, rich upper class people of England. He wants to prove his theory that there really is no difference between them and the poor, and that he can successfully pass a poor girl off as a rich one.


Eliza Doolittle: [singing] I shall not feel alone without you, I can stand on my own without you. So go back in your shell, I can do bloody well without...
Professor Henry Higgins: [singing] By George, I really did it, I did it, I did it! I said I'd make a woman and indeed, I did. I knew that I could do it, I knew it, I knew it! I said I'd make a woman and succeed, I did!
[speaking]
Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza, you're magnificent. Five minutes ago, you were a millstone around my neck, and now you're a tower of strength, a consort battleship. I like you this way.
[pause]
Eliza Doolittle: Goodbye, Professor Higgins. You shall not be seeing me again.
(found on IMDb)

A website to learn more about this day: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127010097




Eliza's transformation.

My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion.