WATCHING MY FAIR LADY ON TCM NOW. DID PROF. HIGGINS AND ELIZA EVER FUCK? SHE COULD HAVE HAD FREDDIE .

mmm, young Jeremy Brett.

I thought there were two possible versions and in one she's goes off with Freddy. That is more satisfying and better for today's audience. I'm watching it too.

[quote]That is more satisfying and better for today's audience.

R2 How do you figure?

EWWWWW, no

I always lol when he calls her a squashed cabbage leaf.

She marries Freddy.

Shaw wrote a witheringly awesome essay about this because he couldn't believe people were moronic enough to believe she would go for the professor.

Higgins is a monster, which his mother knows. Here is a review of a better version.

Here you go--Shaw's sequel.

[quote]She marries Freddy.

Not in MY FAIR LADY nor the 1930s film written by Shaw.

PYGMALION and MFL are not one and the same; they're two different animals.

Therefore, whatever essay Shaw wrote is a moot point.

Yeah, he literally thought it didn't need to be shown in action because it was obvious.

Here is what the author wrote about his own story--

"THE rest of the story need not be shown in action, and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-mades and reach-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of "happy endings" to misfit all stories. "

Nevertheless, MY FAIR LADY and PYGMALION are not interchangeable. The former is inspired by the latter, but their creators had different intentions for the characters.

Shaw got it right. He was a genius after all Thank you R8. (Also Higgens is on the spectrum.)

Professor Higgins is obnoxious and will never treat her right. She needs to bolt.

Freddy was as gay as Eliza's Embassy ball gown.

R15 that's because Jeremy Brett was gay!

Col. Pickering ended up as Freddy's sugar daddy.

These are great answers ., OP .

The beautiful voice of Jordan Donica.

The most important question is, who is better hung? Does Higgins have sizemeat, or does Freddy? Or do they both?

OP, they're not real people.

Higgings was a genius but a monster, incapable of empathy. In today's terms he might be said to be a sociopath or narcissist, or to have Asperger's Syndrome or some other autism spectrum disorder. But Shaw didn't want to diagnose him, the intent was that he was brilliant, but inhuman and destructive, and if Eliza had stayed with him he'd have destroyed his creation once he'd finished making it. When Eliza took Higgins up on his offer to change her speech and her life she knew damn well she was playing with fire and was probably going to get burned, or thrown out on the street when Higgins tired of her new toy, but she was brave enough to take the one offer she'd ever had that might genuinely improve her life.

Plus, Higgins is probably gay. And why am I the first to say that, I ask?

Freddie is the big flaw in the play, in every single version. He's supposed to be a better alternative than Higgins, someone kind and loving, someone who'd let Eliza be her fabulous self. But he's written as such a boring, vapid, useless posh dullard, that ever since the play's inception, audiences have preferred to match Eliza with Higgins. At least Higgins has wit and charisma, while Freddie has nothing.

come to me, Freddie Einsford-Hill. i speak the new small talk well.

[quote]But he's written as such a boring, vapid, useless posh dullard

Not to mention, superficial. When Freddy first runs into Eliza (quite literally) in the first scene, he's apologetic but he doesn't really notice her, since she's in rags. But when he first spots her at Mrs. Higgins' at-home tea party (or the Ascot Races in the musical), he immediately falls head over heels in love with her. And he doesn't realize she's a common flower girl, never mind the very one he knocked over.

Here, here, young man! What is you sniggering at! I bet I got it right.