October 21, 1964 –
Possibly the most fully realized movie musical, My Fair Lady debuted at the Criterion Theater in New York, on this date.
When Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle) was first informed that her voice wasn’t strong enough and that she would have to be dubbed, she walked out. She returned the next day and, in a typically graceful Hepburn gesture, apologized to everybody for her “wicked behavior“.
The Haus of Dcaligari 