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マイ・フェア・レディ【Blu-ray】 [ オードリー・ヘプバーン ] 価格:1,500円 (2018/7/23 13:53時点) 感想(6件)

Plot
In Edwardian London, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. In Covent Garden one evening, he boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), himself an expert in phonetics, that he could teach any person to speak in a way that he could pass them off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball. Higgins selects as an example a young flower seller, Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who has a strong Cockney accent. Eliza's ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her thick accent makes her unsuitable. Having come from India to meet Higgins, Pickering is invited to stay with the professor. The following morning, Eliza shows up at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all expenses, should the experiment be successful.
Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, shows up three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack of morals. Higgins recommends Alfred to a wealthy American who is interested in morality. Eliza goes through many forms of speech training, such as speaking with marbles in her mouth, enduring Higgins' harsh approach to teaching and his treatment of her personally. She makes little progress, but just as she, Higgins, and Pickering are about to give up, Eliza finally "gets it"; she instantly begins to speak with an impeccable upper class accent.
As a test, Higgins takes her to Ascot Racecourse, where she makes a good impression initially, only to shock everyone by a sudden lapse into vulgar Cockney while cheering on a horse. Higgins, who dislikes the pretentiousness of the upper class, partly conceals a grin behind his hand. He next has Eliza pose as a mysterious lady at an embassy ball where she dances with a foreign prince. At the ball is Zoltan Karpathy (Theodore Bikel), a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. After a brief conversation with Eliza, he certifies that she is not only Hungarian, but of royal blood, declaring her to be a Princess.
After all the effort she has put in, however, Eliza's actions are barely acknowledged, with all the praise going to Higgins. This, and his callous treatment towards her afterwards, especially his indifference to her future, causes her to throw Higgins' slippers at him, and to walk out on him, leaving him mystified by her ingratitude. Accompanied by Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett), a young man she met at Ascot and who is charmed by her, Eliza makes an attempt to return to her old life, but finds that she no longer fits in. She meets her father, who has been left a large fortune by the wealthy American to whom Higgins had recommended him, and is resigned to marrying Eliza's stepmother. Alfred feels that Higgins has ruined him, since he is now bound by morals and responsibility. Eliza kindly refuses an invitation to the wedding and eventually ends up visiting Higgins' mother (Gladys Cooper), who is outraged at her son's behaviour.
The next day, Higgins finds Eliza gone and searches for her, eventually finding her at his mother's house. Higgins attempts to talk Eliza into coming back to him. He becomes angered when Eliza announces that she is going to marry Freddy and become Karpathy's assistant. He makes his way home, stubbornly predicting that she will come crawling back. However, he comes to the realization that he has "grown accustomed to her face." Henry returns to his study to lament his loneliness. As he listens to Eliza's recorded voice, she reappears in the doorway behind him, turning off the recording and saying in her old Cockney accent, "I washed my hands and face before I come I did." Higgins looks surprised then pleased before asking for his slippers once more as Eliza smiles on behind him, leaving the audience to decide what happens next.

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Cast
Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle オードリー・ヘプバーン
Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins レックス・ハリソン
Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle スタンリー・ホロウェイ
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Pickering ウィルフリッド・ハイド＝ホワイト
Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Higgins グラディス・クーパー
Jeremy Brett as Freddy Eynsford-Hill ジェレミー・ブレット
Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill イソベル・エルソム
Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Pearce モナ・ウォッシュボーン


Academy Awards
Won
Best Picture
Best Director (George Cukor)
Best Actor (Rex Harrison)
Best CInematography
Best Sound
Best Score
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design

Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Film Editing
Best Supporting Actor (Stanley Holloway)
Best Supporting Actress (Gladys Cooper)


1964年のジョージ・キューカー監督作品「マイ・フェア・レディ」です。
戯曲「ピグマリオン」をミュージカル化した「マイ・フェア・レディ」の映画化作品。
「ピグマリオン」原作者のジョージ・バーナード・ショウは「ピグマリオン」のミュージカル化を嫌がったため、死後にしかミュージカルができませんでした。

ストーリーは基本的に「ピグマリオン」をなぞったものです。
変更点は、イライザが一番初めにテストするときの場所が「ピグマリオン」のヒギンズ夫人の家からアスコット競馬場になってるぐらいですかね。
ただ原作戯曲「ピグマリオン」は社会風刺をしているものですが、本作はよりロマンス的です。
エンディングは1938年の映画「ピグマリオン」のものを採用。

主演はオードリー・ヘプバーンとレックス・ハリソンです。
レックス・ハリソンは本作品でアカデミー主演男優賞を受賞。
本映画はミュージカルということで、当然歌が含まれています。
レックス・ハリソンは自ら歌っているのですが、オードリー・ヘプバーンの歌はマー二・ニクソンという人が吹き替えています。ヘプバーン自身も録音していたのですが、使用されませんでした。
そのせいかアカデミー賞にはノミネートすらされませんでした。
ただ"Just You Wait"に関してはオードリー・ヘプバーン自身の声がかなり使われていて、マー二・ニクソンの声は中間の高音部分だけになっています。


上映時間は170分と長いので、見るときは十分時間を確保してからに。