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The Athenaeum's summer movie matinee series concludes with My Fair Lady, the breathtaking musical extravaganza that won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, starring Audrey Hepburn in the role of Eliza Doolittle, a sassy, working-class London street vendor, and Rex Harrison as the elitist Professor Higgins. The film was adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.

Shown in the Busch Room. 173 min.

Local film collector and Athenaeum shareholder George Strimel returns for The Athenaeum's summer movie matinee series. Over four Wednesdays this August, George will screen and discuss a selection of films based on plays by George Bernard Shaw.

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