Entries tagged with "henry higgins"

Musical analysis?

posted by srah on April 26, 2002 3:34 PM

Tags: henry higgins, linguistics, movies, my fair lady

Katie's Musical Trivia Quote made me put the My Fair Lady soundtrack on. Ah, Rex Harrison. 'Enry 'Iggins is such a prescriptive grammarian. Or a prescriptive phoneticist or something. He's pretty much just a jerk. Does anyone know if he was like that in Pygmalion? I've never read it, but I've seen the movie. Mmm, Leslie Howard. Leslie Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. What an unfortunate pair of androgynous first names....