Showing posts with label George Cukor. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

My Fair Lady (1964) - (Audrey Hepburn) German two-sheet

My Fair Lady (1964) - (Audrey Hepburn) German two-sheet

This is a 36" x 46" German two-sheet poster designed by Bob Peak for the 1964 George Cukor film My Fair Lady based a the 1913 play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, adapted for the stage for musical production in 1938 by Lerner and Lowe, book and screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and starring Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle. Plot summary: Phonetics professor Henry Higgins [Rex Harrison] takes on the task of teaching proper English and making presentable to society cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle. Eliza turns out to be a good student who is soon able to pass as a person with royal blood. After a dispute with Higgins, Eliza tries unsuccessfully to return to her old life but finds she is now a misfit there. Higgins now wants her back! According to boxofficemojo.com, Mami Nixon dubbed Hepburn's voice in all her songs except the first one, Just You Wait.

Cast and crew: Rex Harrison, Bob Peak, Stanley Holloway, Audrey Hepburn, George Cukor, George Bernard Shaw, Alan Jay Lerner, Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, John Holland, Mami Nixon



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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Showgirl [فتاة الاستعراض] (Soad Hosny) - (1969)

Showgirl (1969) - (Soad Hosny) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is an Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy and Mohammad Abdel Aziz to promote the 1969 Mahmoud Zulfikar 103-minute black-and-white film Showgirl [fatat al-isterad] starring Soad Hosny based on the 1960 George Cukor film Let's Make Love with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Abu Youssef and cinematography by Wadid Serri. Plot summary: A dance troupe rented a theater so they could mount a confrontation in the press with the wealthy Ahmed Eloui [Hassan Youssef]. Fahmy [Adel Imam], his director of executive affairs, told him about it and they went together to attend one of the troupe's rehearsals. Ahmed invited the troupe's star Faeza [Soad Hosny] to dinner and he became known to her as Ahmed Al-Eshmawy because he did not want her to know his real name. However as the story developed Ahmed fell in love with Faeza, told her his real name and asked her to marry him.

Cast and crew: Hesham Wadid Serri, Hassan Afifi, Soad Hosny, Hassan Youssef, Adel Imam, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Wadid Serri, Mohamed Abu Youssef, George Cukor, Hussein Ismail, El Sayed Radi, Fifi Youssef, Alia Abdel Moneim, Mimi Gamal, Kamel Anwar, Zakarai Mouafi, Hamed Morsi





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