Eliza Blunders the Small Talk

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  • This is a clip from the film "My Fair Lady" in which Eliza Doolittle attempts casual conversation and fails miserably.

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  • @stephaniegittinger7980
    @stephaniegittinger7980 6 років тому +1082

    His big mistake: he taught her the diction, but he didn't teach her how to carry on a conversation with it.

    • @XarkoCZ
      @XarkoCZ 5 років тому +98

      Well I mean technically she did talk only about weather and health.

    • @jlammetje
      @jlammetje 4 роки тому +40

      @@XarkoCZ And murder and thievery...

    • @XarkoCZ
      @XarkoCZ 4 роки тому +34

      ​@@jlammetje Murder is still just talking about her aunts health. The stolen hat is just a minor detail, the important thing is she'd use it to protect herself from bad weather.

    • @vilwarin5635
      @vilwarin5635 4 роки тому +10

      He didn´t taught her to sit down either, it seems. He isnt a good teacher, isn´t he?

    • @AR-pd2it
      @AR-pd2it 4 роки тому +58

      That's Cos Higgins himself lacks social skills. He's got little tolerance for small talks and offends everyone around him with his obnoxious behaviour 😅😅. No brainer when he couldn't teach Eliza what not to talk. He asked her to stick to the topics health n weather and she really never once deviated 😅😅

  • @TheCatholicFaithfu
    @TheCatholicFaithfu 13 років тому +398

    Audrey's talent for comedy was marvelous! She was like a living cartoon in this scene!

    • @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144
      @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144 6 років тому +2

      ancillaindigna that's what I tell everyone.

    • @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144
      @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144 6 років тому +2

      My Fair Lady is my favorite musical. I even wrote a parody of I'm An Ordinary Man. "Let a bully in your life and you live eternal strife! I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling than to ever let a bully in my life!" (Yes, I've been treated badly by many people.) #LGBT
      #Pride #AspergersSyndrome

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname 4 місяці тому +1

      Her expressions are brilliant. Particularly when Higgins asks her to sit down.

  • @sensemaya1
    @sensemaya1 10 років тому +307

    I never get tired of watching this film...timeless.

  • @trinelangohr6661
    @trinelangohr6661 9 років тому +247

    "Them as pinched it done her in!" - she's so adorable...

    • @raghadb2044
      @raghadb2044 5 років тому +1

      what does it mean?😂

    • @tombullard123
      @tombullard123 5 років тому +4

      r.s.b 1997 the person who stole the hat is the one that killed her

    • @quoileternite
      @quoileternite 4 роки тому +1

      @@tombullard123 a straw hat that should have come to me!

  • @TomRipley7350
    @TomRipley7350 5 років тому +130

    I could've watched a whole film of her delivering cockney parlance in a cut glass English accent. Exquisite scene.

    • @blackletter2591
      @blackletter2591 3 роки тому +5

      Take Eliza to Ascot for her first outing: What could go wrong. At least we get to see Henry Higgins do his Cringe!

  • @Aramanth
    @Aramanth 4 роки тому +95

    I love the *relish* in her voice as she stirs her tea while sharing a bit
    of seedy family gossip with the Upper Class!! Love it! 👒📍

  • @GregoryTheGr8ster
    @GregoryTheGr8ster 12 років тому +420

    Does anyone else love those hats? And is anyone else happy to see that at least one man finds her mismatched pronunciation and grammar/diction to be -- how shall we say -- amusing?

    • @NjorunsDream
      @NjorunsDream 4 роки тому +26

      GregoryTheGr8ster YES. God, she should have gone with him not Higgins.

    • @kitwhitfield7169
      @kitwhitfield7169 4 роки тому +12

      Njörun Ránsdóttir She did in the original play. :-)

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus 4 роки тому +3

      GregoryTheGr8ster yes. They used this angle very well when they redid it in pretty woman.

    • @mykzalot
      @mykzalot 4 роки тому +1

      how awfully funny

    • @kim7990
      @kim7990 4 роки тому +4

      He's madly in love with her... Oh Freddie

  • @Kareragirl
    @Kareragirl 8 років тому +492

    "Done her in? Done her in, did you say?" This guy is the prototype of an English snob and I love it.

    • @DettolObsessed
      @DettolObsessed 5 років тому +10

      It’s my favorite scene in the entire movie!!!!!! 💕💕💕💕 I love how she speaks and he’s soooooo PROUD of his masterpiece hahahahha

    • @raghadb2044
      @raghadb2044 4 роки тому

      what does it mean "Done her in" ?

    • @quoileternite
      @quoileternite 4 роки тому +2

      @@raghadb2044 "you surely don't believe that your aunt was killed?" ... "do I not?" ...

    • @maksphoto78
      @maksphoto78 3 роки тому

      @@raghadb2044 It means "murdered her"

  • @phantom.lover0527
    @phantom.lover0527 3 роки тому +115

    Jeremy's little "sniggers" and giggles are absolutely endearing... the one and only Sherlock Holmes

    • @rhemaadina61
      @rhemaadina61 2 роки тому +8

      So handsome too😍😍

    • @doctorfate6414
      @doctorfate6414 Рік тому +5

      That was Jeremy Brett!?

    • @maksphoto78
      @maksphoto78 Рік тому

      Except the Soviet Sherlock was the best. He even received an award from Queen Elizabeth.

    • @readyplayerart3mis
      @readyplayerart3mis 8 місяців тому +2

      I had no idea Jeremy Brett was in this! Yes the best Sherlock!

  • @LMeowliet
    @LMeowliet 4 роки тому +28

    I love how Higgins wants her to be all proper but then puts a teacup on his head.

    • @kateli1880
      @kateli1880 3 роки тому +1

      Men wants women to be but they exempted themselves.

  • @jimjimmyjames59
    @jimjimmyjames59 3 роки тому +39

    Eliza doesn't blunder the small talk, she does it so awfully well...

  • @MrReco12
    @MrReco12 10 років тому +505

    "gin was mother's milk to her" LOL

  • @candleinthewind9135
    @candleinthewind9135 9 років тому +349

    "Them she lived with, would have killed her for a hat pin, let alone a hat."
    That sure sounds like something a lady from an upper class family would say!

    • @Garl_Vinland
      @Garl_Vinland 7 років тому +29

      Funny thing is, a lot of "Lower class" slang back then was the "Upper class" vocabulary of the day before. "Ain't" for example, was proper grammar before the lower class adopted it.

    • @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144
      @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144 6 років тому +7

      Garl Vinland Ain't was *proper grammar* at one time??? I'm laughing like a drain at that.

    • @chrisnorton4382
      @chrisnorton4382 6 років тому +16

      Not just ain't. Both upper and lower classes would talk about huntin' shootin' and fishin' . Being grammatically correct was a sign of being irredeemably middle-class (or nouveau riche as the upper classes would have it).

    • @stillsearching1284
      @stillsearching1284 6 років тому +3

      But she said it so eloquently. 😊

    • @quoileternite
      @quoileternite 4 роки тому

      "Gin was mother's milk to her" ... very ladylike?

  • @J.P.Robles
    @J.P.Robles 6 місяців тому +3

    Freddie’s reaction is exactly how the audience reacted to her story

  • @TarotMage
    @TarotMage 4 роки тому +13

    I think the international signal for distress should be to put a tea cup and saucer on your head. XD

  • @serahblair2374
    @serahblair2374 4 роки тому +22

    0:35 Jeremy Brett and his classic giggle... *swoon*

  • @blackletter2591
    @blackletter2591 3 роки тому +10

    I come back to this film for Jeremy Brett, again and again.

  • @vrushalibedekar4014
    @vrushalibedekar4014 5 років тому +44

    Jeremy Brett's laughter is so infectious. Reminds me of Sherlock Holmes.

    • @phantom.lover0527
      @phantom.lover0527 3 роки тому +8

      Jeremy does go on to play (in my opinion, the best interpretation) Sherlock Holmes in the late 70's all the way to the early 90's

  • @12classics39
    @12classics39 Рік тому +6

    At 0:09, that little “sit down” gesture he does is HILARIOUS. All he had to do was point at the chair to signal that she needed to sit, but instead he does … that.

  • @srf1293
    @srf1293 7 років тому +57

    "They all thought she was dead, but my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat" 😂

  • @harshmnr
    @harshmnr 8 років тому +275

    "Well if I was doing it proper, what was you snickering at?" XD
    ~:~

    • @PianoGesang
      @PianoGesang 8 років тому +36

      I believe she said "sniggering" but it don't make no diff.

    • @jauipop
      @jauipop 7 років тому +6

      so so good

    • @raghadb2044
      @raghadb2044 5 років тому +1

      what does snickering mean?😅

    • @potatlife
      @potatlife 5 років тому +3

      r.s.b 1997 like giggling

    • @XarkoCZ
      @XarkoCZ 4 роки тому +9

      @@raghadb2044 it's the new small talk, it means eating snickers

  • @ACENLJ
    @ACENLJ 7 років тому +363

    I love how that one young man (I forget his name, wasn't it Freddie or something?) is so completely charmed by her.

    • @naly202
      @naly202 5 років тому +54

      Freddy Eynsford Hill- portrayed by the great Jeremy Brett- (Sherlock Holmes in the Granada TV series)

    • @AR-pd2it
      @AR-pd2it 4 роки тому +43

      As per the book, he finally wins her affection in the end . ElizaXFreddie #shipit 😁✌️

    • @932ForeverLove
      @932ForeverLove 4 роки тому +26

      Probably because she’s so real and candid

    • @daisylazy5326
      @daisylazy5326 4 роки тому +28

      smuckersgoober I mean with all those high society rules, it’s probably refreshing to have someone unapologetically say whatever they feel

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus 4 роки тому

      smuckersgoober weren’t we all?

  • @masodemic4509
    @masodemic4509 5 років тому +21

    Jeremy Brett is so charming, I couldn't help but smile 'till my cheeks hurt

  • @mw7882
    @mw7882 Рік тому +10

    This exchange had me in tears I nearly fainted laughing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was done when she said "laddle gin down her throat", "something chronic",and " what was you sniggerling at". . . Oh Audrey fantastic delivery as Eliza Doolittle.

  • @ryuuu245
    @ryuuu245 4 роки тому +41

    Freddy's enchantment with Eliza was just adorable to look at💞 Jeremy and Audrey were just amazing 🔥

  • @TotallyNotJustCynical
    @TotallyNotJustCynical 4 роки тому +23

    Its Pickering and Higgin's responses which makes this scene for me. Both of their combined embarrassment and shame is just hilarious.

  • @kyokoushio
    @kyokoushio 16 років тому +47

    One of my favourite scenes of the whole film - Jeremy Brett is so sweet in this :D

  • @eramosat
    @eramosat 3 роки тому +10

    I can watch it over and over and over...and damn right Freddie was charmed! He's a gentleman, but he ain't a fool!

  • @BillSaltbush
    @BillSaltbush 6 місяців тому +2

    The writer/s for this scene were/are truly artists. A classic scene.

  • @Alusnovalotus
    @Alusnovalotus 4 роки тому +8

    “Drank?!
    My word, something chronic!”
    I burst out laughing at this at the library and people stared!! 😅😂

  • @omyjeezys2011
    @omyjeezys2011 12 років тому +95

    "Done her in?"
    "Yes, Lord love you."
    My favorite part of the whole movie!

  • @TraustiGeir
    @TraustiGeir 14 років тому +57

    I love how Henry reacts to her behaviour in this scene. I would have hid a long time ago.

  • @kyokoushio
    @kyokoushio 15 років тому +15

    His face after Eliza's just shouted 'Move your bloomin' arse Dover' is brilliant!

    • @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144
      @claireforestgreenorgangeek7144 6 років тому +1

      kyokoushio I laughed so hard at that scene that my blooming lungs didn't move for a while. (Translation: I laughed myself breathless.)

  • @lilyhan2217
    @lilyhan2217 6 років тому +39

    Jremmy was so dashing gentleman when he was young

  • @StereoSpace
    @StereoSpace 11 років тому +66

    Classic. BTW, Audrey was always beautiful, but she is absolutely stunning here.

    • @tonyfranklin8306
      @tonyfranklin8306 4 роки тому

      If you look at her early years cycling around the studios with her little terrier in her bicycle basket she was really fairly plain looking in her 'normal' clothes, thick eyebrows and short bob cut. She was an elegant young lady but of the time she wouldn't have been classed as a natural beauty though that's in the eye of the beholder of course.

  • @emmabennett7699
    @emmabennett7699 2 роки тому +31

    This scene is the perfect example between accent and dialect. Her accent, he tone of voice had changed. But her words and general speech hasn't.

  • @angeloc.7400
    @angeloc.7400 3 роки тому +12

    HERE'S TO THIS ICONIC SMALL TALK THAT YOU CAN READ ALONG:
    HIGGINS. Miss Doolittle.
    LIZA. Good afternoon, Professor Higgins.
    Higgins trying to mime, telling Liza to sit down.
    FREDDY. [brings his chair and sits down in front of Liza, infatuated.] The first race was very exciting, Miss Doolittle. I'm so sorry that you missed it.
    MRS. HIGGINS [conversationally] Will it rain, do you think?
    LIZA. The rain in spain stays mainly in the plain.
    Higgins dances to the tune of the phrase. Mrs. Eynsford Hill was surprised by his dancing.
    LIZA. But in Hartford, Herriford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
    FREDDY. Ha! ha! How awfully funny!
    LIZA. What is wrong with that, young man? I bet I got it right.
    FREDDY. Smashing!
    MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Hasn't it suddenly turned chilly? I do hope we won't have any unseasonable cold spell. They bring on too much influenza, and the whole of our family is susceptible to it.
    LIZA [darkly] My aunt died of influenza: so they said. But it's my belief they done the old woman in.
    MRS. HIGGINS [puzzled] Done her in?
    LIZA. Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you! Why should she die of influenza when she come through diphtheria right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat. [Higgins reacted disappointedly, placing his cup of tea atop his hat] Then, she come to so sudden, she bit the bowl off the spoon.
    MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [startled, while lord and lady boxington, baffled] Dear me!
    LIZA. Now what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me?
    COL. PICKERING [looking at Higgins, looking worried]
    LIZA. Somebody pinched it; and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in.
    LORD BOXINGTON. Done her in? Done her in, did you say?
    LADY BOXINGTON. Whatever does it mean?
    HIGGINS [hastily] Oh, that's the new small talk. To do somebody in, means to kill them.
    MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Eliza, horrified] But you surely don't believe that your aunt was killed?
    LIZA. Do I not! Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.
    MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. But it can't have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her.
    LIZA. Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it.
    MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Do you mean that, he drank?
    LIZA. Drank! My word! Something chronic.
    Freddy gets in convulsions of suppressed laughter.
    LIZA. Here! what are you sniggering at?
    FREDDY. It's the new small talk. You're doing it so awfully well.
    LIZA. Well, if I was doing it proper, what was you sniggering at? [To Higgins] Have I said anything I oughtn't?
    HIGGINS. [upset, reacting] Oh no.
    MRS. HIGGINS [interposing] Not at all, my dear.
    LIZA. Well, that's a mercy, anyhow.

    • @deviritter5232
      @deviritter5232 10 місяців тому

      To read it makes you appreciate just how spectacular the delivery of it is! 😂 quite truly - all in the diction and delivery :D

  • @envertarhan8176
    @envertarhan8176 Рік тому +5

    In this scene Eliza is half way through her 6 months long educational period. Upto that point Higgins only thought her how to pronounce words properly. In the remaining few months, they teach her how to behave and talk in high society (especially the aristocratic one). You may want to watch the original movie "Pygmalion" which follows the original story in the play by Bernard Shaw.

  • @razzle2429
    @razzle2429 5 років тому +46

    I love how all the rich people were still kind to her, despite her vernacular (up until the horse race later). They might have guessed she wasn't born into money, but still seemed to see her as one of 'them'.
    It's Higgins who is making a fool of himself! lol

  • @ReadandWite
    @ReadandWite 12 років тому +18

    Its a Masterclass in Elocution by an actress of outstanding ability. A bit like 'Allo 'Allo meets the rich totty of the 1950's. And what beauty and elfine grace Audrey Hepburn had. Wonderful.

  • @Cityweaver
    @Cityweaver 2 роки тому +4

    I love how she basically says "Who the fff are you talking to?" like 2-3 times in this. Hood woman in a banging dress.

  • @yumiko0017
    @yumiko0017 4 роки тому +3

    I remember when I was younger and I saw this outfit. I loved it from first sight.

  • @razzle2429
    @razzle2429 5 років тому +9

    I love that Higgins is just as crass and weird in social situations as Eliza. He's just better at hiding it!

    • @kateli1880
      @kateli1880 3 роки тому +1

      He had more decades practicing it an growing up privileged class already.. there’s the difference being born into it and still crass and Eliza took many leaps to fools people overnight.

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname 4 місяці тому +1

      An excellent observation

  • @orchardist1965
    @orchardist1965 9 років тому +37

    Poor old Professor Higgins wants the ground to open up as does Col.Pickering. A few minor imperfections to sort out. Eliza,so beautiful and the hat is quite incredible. Thank you for this hilarious posting.

  • @gentillygirl545
    @gentillygirl545 4 роки тому +6

    Freddy is so charming.

  • @Steelburgh
    @Steelburgh 7 років тому +22

    One of the funniest scenes in movie history. Love me some Audrey!

  • @peteradaniel
    @peteradaniel 7 років тому +25

    "Well that's the mercy anyhow" LMFAO

    • @quoileternite
      @quoileternite 4 роки тому +4

      "Have I said anything that I oughtn't?"

  • @lacey2906
    @lacey2906 6 років тому +8

    This scene is genius, and my favorite bit from the whole movie. I'm so glad it's isolated for our enjoyment.

  • @annaturquoise4038
    @annaturquoise4038 11 років тому +27

    Its the new small talk, you do it so awfully well!

  • @tonyfranklin8306
    @tonyfranklin8306 4 роки тому +24

    This is brilliant acting, to speak in RP using the language of the common folk interspersed mid way through the sentences is incredibly difficult, it was bloomin' perfect in fact!

  • @petedrive
    @petedrive 16 років тому +12

    Brilliant! My favourite clip from the film ' and when she came to she bit the bowl clean off of the spoon......' hilarious

    • @quoileternite
      @quoileternite 4 роки тому +1

      "Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl of the spoon"

  • @darjeelingk.8062
    @darjeelingk.8062 4 роки тому +11

    I love Freddie's laugh. She should have married him at the end.

    • @soniavadnjal7553
      @soniavadnjal7553 3 роки тому +1

      She does, in the book.

    • @12classics39
      @12classics39 Місяць тому

      I think she did. She only returned to Higgins to end on good terms with him, given that she has her new lot in life only thanks to his teachings. And maybe to pick up a toothbrush that she forgot. But she definitely did not pick up his slippers!!! She definitely married Freddy.

  • @MegaAzby
    @MegaAzby 13 років тому +22

    2:49 everytime i watch this fall in love with Freddie all over again.....

  • @SunBunz
    @SunBunz 7 років тому +54

    "Drank?! My wuhd! Something chronic." 💃🏼

  • @enriquecastro2065
    @enriquecastro2065 5 років тому +5

    the loveliest picture ever made

  • @JeremySolo
    @JeremySolo 7 місяців тому +3

    im obsessed with this scene. I totally get why Freddy is so infatuated

  • @lynzb2815
    @lynzb2815 7 років тому +70

    Higgins doing the little dance 😂😂😂😂

  • @floral2875
    @floral2875 4 роки тому +2

    "Besides, he poured so much down his own throat he knew the good of it" XD

  • @EozOrange
    @EozOrange 12 років тому +130

    Rex Harrison was so well cast. I love how Prof. Higgins puts the cup of tea on his head when Eliza gets her pronunciation and diction so horribly wrong.

    • @chrisnorton4382
      @chrisnorton4382 7 років тому +64

      Zoë Harmar - Her pronunciation and diction were fine. It was the content and grammar that was amiss.

    • @shaesummers7080
      @shaesummers7080 6 років тому +30

      Zoë Harmar When you’re so done that you put a teacup on your head

    • @ChristianPLAY100
      @ChristianPLAY100 6 років тому +11

      She said, "But my father he kept ladling gin down her throat."

    • @stephaniegittinger7980
      @stephaniegittinger7980 6 років тому +9

      She bit the bowl off the spoon.

    • @chazchillings3019
      @chazchillings3019 4 роки тому +14

      She was putting street slang in a proper English accent. That is what the doctor was surprised and upset by. That is why it is comical.

  • @blonddoctor
    @blonddoctor 14 років тому +12

    "That's the new small talk...gin was mother's milk to her." ~ THAT IS SOOOOO FUNNY!!!

  • @Rosbif48
    @Rosbif48 3 роки тому +2

    "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain"
    Ah, that's my cue to do a half-hearted flamenco dance!
    Noblesse-oblige is mighty confusing to a commoner like me.

  • @deviritter5232
    @deviritter5232 10 місяців тому +2

    Lol absolutely love this scene. Hepburn is fabulous.

  • @BlaBlaYourHead
    @BlaBlaYourHead 10 років тому +42

    had hard time not to burst into laughter today when i watched this part in class xD

  • @fanofmusicals
    @fanofmusicals 12 років тому +57

    I agree. Truly a classy lady. I read somewhere that when Disney was making SLEEPING BEAUTY, they based the physical shape of Princess Aurora on Audrey. If that's true, then the animators surely picked the right lady to do so.

  • @MRiGOThim
    @MRiGOThim 5 років тому +5

    “Drank?! My word something chronic.”🤣😂

  • @DettolObsessed
    @DettolObsessed 5 років тому +8

    I absolutely love Mr Higgins. I remember rewinding this scene 50 times to see him dance when she said something so outrageous. It’s so spontaneous how he danced it’s hilarious. I love her role here so much.

  • @craigkier
    @craigkier 14 років тому +12

    God love Cecil Beaton! awful man, but brilliant designer. His clothes are timeless & make Eliza's moments even more precious.

  • @rubytuesdayphoenix
    @rubytuesdayphoenix 5 років тому +8

    That teacup on his head tho

    • @majesticalowls
      @majesticalowls 4 роки тому +2

      Ive seen this movie a lot, just noticed 😊😂

  • @whisper6727
    @whisper6727 2 роки тому +1

    I forgot all about this part. Thank you for posting. 💐🌹🦋

    • @maksphoto78
      @maksphoto78 Рік тому

      The whole movie is a goldmine of comedy. Cuppatea! "Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf!"

  • @jcisbell
    @jcisbell 13 років тому +65

    did anyone else notice that she said "straw" hat? Only a common person would wear that hahaha! The rich people must have wondered.

    • @tonyfranklin8306
      @tonyfranklin8306 4 роки тому +7

      Actually a straw boater was de rigueur for lounging on ones boat or punt whilst ones butler/serf punted you down river to the summer house. Boaters are also worn at Eaton so factually it's the other way around, a straw hat is the hat of the upper classes, the common folk wore flat caps if anything.

    • @kim7990
      @kim7990 4 роки тому +2

      @@tonyfranklin8306 yeah and of course based on the decorations too! Look at some marie Antoinette's picture hat, some of them are this so flat curved at on side kind of straw hat sort... I saw i in the movie the Duchess too

  • @magsasaka1960
    @magsasaka1960 15 років тому +5

    "Have I said anything I oughtn't? LMAO that was hilarious!

  • @DerekMcAdam2023
    @DerekMcAdam2023 3 роки тому +1

    I can't with her hat 🤣but love her hat though

  • @msk-qp6fn
    @msk-qp6fn 4 роки тому +8

    to this day i kinda have a hard time what eliza is saying but i still get the gist of it now and waaaay before and it's still hilarious!!! XD the content of her story is probably so crude and alien to the upper-class but eliza says it with such class that it actually sounds more outrageous lmao

  • @SlayPlenty
    @SlayPlenty 4 роки тому +2

    oh i do love soon to be scherlock holmes my goodness he play that part with just as much sharpness as this one

  • @connorpusey5912
    @connorpusey5912 5 років тому +4

    I watched this in 11th grade for English class; we read the play Pygmalion. Even though I hate musicals, this scene is freaking hilarious! I lose it when she says in the proper accent: “my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Then she came to so sudden she bit the bowl off the spoon” so funny.

  • @tothk.8816
    @tothk.8816 7 років тому +27

    0:35 Jeremy Brett

  • @chandini241
    @chandini241 15 років тому +7

    this is my favorite outfit of all time

  • @MrShoryuken1
    @MrShoryuken1 5 років тому +4

    The irony being that talking like this genuinely was a popular fad amongst the gentry of England at one point. A bit like Marie Antoinette and her fake farm, churning butter like a peasant etc.

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname 4 місяці тому

      It was. If you watch The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews, he talks the same way with the Prince Regent, and the Prince responds in a similar fashion. It was very fashionable, as was being late to a social event.

  • @MicaRayan
    @MicaRayan 3 роки тому +2

    She kind of replicating the other ladies' voice 😅😆😆😆 this is why Audrey's so hard to clone at... another one I think was Vivien Leigh... these scenes are complicated. The eyes, the movements, the phrasing, the great ensemble and of course the costumes by Cecil Beaton were like icing on the cake to put it on iconic tier

  • @macb.43
    @macb.43 4 роки тому +2

    Love the headgear!! And those dresses!!!

  • @mitchmatthews6713
    @mitchmatthews6713 Рік тому +1

    I will forever be in love with her.

  • @sampuatisamuel9785
    @sampuatisamuel9785 2 роки тому +1

    Absolutely amazing

  • @CanadianMonarchist
    @CanadianMonarchist 6 років тому +11

    0:52- Mother, I'm a real man; I took lots of canings at Eton. Don't spoil my chances with Eliza.

  • @DarkMsStress
    @DarkMsStress 6 років тому +6

    I just watched 3 versions of this scene from the Original Pygmalion, to Peter O'Toole's. Audrey Hepburn's performance here is the most hilarious. It almost has a 'Bugs Bunny' approach to it. Love it!

  • @maria_gold
    @maria_gold 7 років тому +27

    my favorite scene from my fair lady!!!! Lol

  • @8cmn
    @8cmn 14 років тому +6

    I love her accent and crazy lilting tones...I think I've spoken like that.

  • @suzannebenz8928
    @suzannebenz8928 Рік тому

    My Favorite Movie....still!

  • @333ministries
    @333ministries 3 роки тому +2

    we did this musical and there was so much laughter in this scene

  • @bets9286
    @bets9286 3 роки тому +4

    Then what was you sniggering at?

  • @bobbidazzler1343
    @bobbidazzler1343 5 років тому +3

    This never fails to make me laugh. Two fingers up to the snobs! 😁

  • @debrahitchman416
    @debrahitchman416 5 років тому +2

    Lovely movie great tunes 👒🎩👠

  • @candyrushascendedphoenix8
    @candyrushascendedphoenix8 4 роки тому +1

    Those costumes were fabulous!!

  • @mirelim9353
    @mirelim9353 4 роки тому +3

    "And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me?" Hahaha

  • @TheWitchvortex
    @TheWitchvortex 4 роки тому +4

    wow, it's like listening to Morticia , from the Addams Family :D

  • @tenorlord
    @tenorlord 14 років тому +19

    I know! It's Jeremy Brett!! Decades before Sherlock!!

    • @madiantin
      @madiantin 4 роки тому +4

      Wait...no...is it really? I have to watch it again.
      Edit: OH MY GOSH it is!!!

  • @LackaDaisyUK
    @LackaDaisyUK 4 роки тому +1

    But this fashion: it looks absolutely unpractical, but I also absolutely adore it 😍 just her dress is so stunning and elegant

  • @leonausten1800
    @leonausten1800 4 роки тому +1

    The Acting on fleek.

  • @devinaanindita8742
    @devinaanindita8742 5 років тому +8

    I am this version of Eliza anytime I attempt to make a small talk. Aye, small talk is the devil's handcraft. Better stay quiet and pretty.

  • @eccremocarpusscaber5159
    @eccremocarpusscaber5159 4 роки тому

    I’ve just realised I’ve been saying “whatever does it mean,” regularly since a fell in love with this film 30 years ago. Gosh.

  • @cathycooper6135
    @cathycooper6135 6 місяців тому +2

    This is the funniest film scene ever!