"Why Can't The English Learn To Speak?"

A brownie point goes to anyone who spots the error in the subtitles!

A good film, taken from an excellent book.

It's a pity that they cast Audrey Hepburn in the film as, although she did an excellent job of it, she wasn't as good as Julie Andrews who had been in the part for almost eight years (Broadway and the West End) by the time they made the film. Hepburn had to have her voice dubbed for the singing parts.

It was the reverse with the part of Colonel Pickering. Robert Coote played it very well on stage but Wilfrid Hyde-White did a superb job in the film.

It was ironical that although the film (1964) won 8 Oscars, and had four other nominations, Julie Andrews won Best Actress that year for her part in Mary Poppins!

I still, clearly, remember being at the dress rehearsal of the London show at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Monday 28th April 1958 and went to every change of main cast from then until it closed. All the changes (not many) turned in superb performances.

 

Where's my slippers?! One of my favourite films (and should be shown at school!)

Not sure on the brownie points. Hyphenating the fortune telling or using 'hung' instead of 'hanged'?

 

I am pretty sure that he said 'Hark at her, a prisoner of the gutters' but the subtitles say 'Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters'

Do I get brownie points?

 

Sorry, it does sound a bit like it, but no.

 

That's what he says in the song, so no.

I want the totally wrong spelling of a word in the subtitles.

 

Clue:-
A Londoner is more likely to get the answer right.

 

I didn't notice that one

 

It's somewhere between 1.00 and 1.30 into the clip.

 

@Jack McHammocklashing
By Jove, He's got it!

The place is not 'Hawkestone' but the notorious/famous Hoxton.

Hoxton is on the border of the East End of London and the City of London. Over the centuries it has gone from being an area for the very rich to becoming a very poor area and now going back to being 'gentrified'.

The Gunpowder Plot was hatched in a house in Hoxton.

During the period that My Fair Lady was set in, it was quite a poor area and remained so until the mid-twentieth century. In the first half of the 20th C, Gainsborough film studios set up there and made many famous films (Alfred Hitchcock started off there).

The interesting Geffrye Museum ('museum of the home') opened in 1914 and is still going. It shows the interior decoration and artifacts of domestic houses during the last four centuries.

At the end of the 20th C the area became full of art studios and galleries and popular nightclubs but some of these have moved because of rising rents in the area.

The Kray twins were born there as were Marie LLoyd and Mary Wollstonecraft (women's rights activist and mother of Mary Shelley (married to Percy Bysshe Shelley and she wrote 'Frankenstein'). Lenny McLean was also born there (known as 'The hardest man in Britain' and was in the film 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels') as were a number of other famous people.

Jamie Oliver opened his first 'Fifteen' restaurant there.