You can see how it looked when it was on the market in 2016 for £14.95 million. A linguistics professor named Horace Wilson lived in a 6-story, 8,500-square-foot Georgian townhouse. The Telegraph wrote an article about the house on Wimpole Street that inspired the one in Pygmalion , the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play My Fair Lady was based on. There’s no 27A Wimpole, but there is a real 27 Wimpole Street in Marylebone. Much of the action takes place inside Henry Higgins’ townhouse, 27A Wimpole Street: There was reportedly a nearly unlimited budget allotted for the sets on this film. The DVD has special features showing how they made the movie, starting with detailed models of the sets: My Fair Lady filmed entirely on sound stages in Hollywood, including outdoor scenes. *Note: There are Amazon affiliate links in this post that may earn me commission. Let’s take a look back at beautifully designed houses in the musical, starting with Henry’s traditional townhouse on Wimpole Street. The movie, about a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle who hires pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins to help her improve her speech, premiered in 1964. By the intermission I knew I was going to have to start writing a post about them as soon as I got home!
What really made an impression on me while watching it on the big screen was how fabulous the sets were. Amazing how tunes like Wouldn’t It Be Loverly, I Could Have Danced All Night, and Get Me to the Church on Time stick with you. It had been years since I’d seen it, and I was surprised to realize I still remembered most of the words to the songs.
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I recently had the chance to see the classic Audrey Hepburn-Rex Harrison musical My Fair Lady in our local movie theater, and I fell in love with it all over again.
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