‘My Fair Lady’ back on the big screen

The 1964 musical drama “My Fair Lady” will return to the big screen at Bainbridge Cinemas for a special one-night-only 55th anniversary revival at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20.

Adapted from a Lerner and Loewe stage musical, based on the 1913 stage play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw, with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle (Audrey “Dig that Hat” Hepburn) who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins (Rex “Doctor Dolittle” Harrison), as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak “proper” English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London.

Tickets, $12.50 each, are on sale. Visit www.farawayentertainment.com to learn more.

This anniversary presentation of “My Fair Lady” includes a brief intermission; the film has a run time of 170 minutes.

With a reported production budget of $17 million, “My Fair Lady” was the most expensive film shot in the United States up to that time. It won eight Oscars, three Golden Globes, and one BAFTA award.