The classic Hollywood films ‘My Fair Lady’ and
‘The Great Race’ will screen at the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences’ Linwood Dunn Theater in
Hollywood on Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 28, this
month. Screenings will begin at 8 p.m. The programs are presented
by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council in
conjunction with its “Dressed in Color: The Costumes”
exhibition, which includes costumes from both films.
In ‘My Fair Lady,’ the 1964 Best Picture winner
adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, Audrey Hepburn and
Rex Harrison star as Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, and
Professor Henry Higgins, the phonetics expert who accepts a
challenge to transform her into a sophisticated Victorian
lady.
‘My Fair Lady’ won eight Oscars® – Actor
(Harrison), Color Art Direction (Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton; Set
Decoration: George James Hopkins), Color Cinematography (Harry
Stradling), Color Costume Design (Beaton), Directing (George
Cukor), Music – Scoring of Music – Adaptation or
treatment (Andre Previn), Best Picture (Jack L. Warner,
producer), and Sound (Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department,
George R. Groves, sound director).
Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood star in ‘The
Great Race’ (1965), a comedy in which a wealthy daredevil-
The Great Leslie, the maniacal Professor Fate, and feminist
reporter Maggie DuBois compete in a turn-of-the-century auto race
from New York to Paris.
Directed by Blake Edwards, ‘The Great Race’ was
nominated for five Academy Awards® – Color
Cinematography (Russell Harlan), Film Editing (Ralph E. Winters),
Music – Song (“The Sweetheart Tree,” Music by
Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Sound (Warner Bros.
Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, sound director).
Tregoweth Brown earned an Oscar in the Sound Effects
category.
Both evenings will feature special viewing hours (from 6 to 8
p.m. and following the screening) of the ‘Dressed in Color:
The Costumes’ exhibition. The exhibition, which examines
the important aspects of costume design for color films from the
1940s through the 1960s, is on display through May 2.
Tickets to ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘The Great
Race’ are only $5 each for the general public and $3 for
Academy members and students with a valid ID. Tickets are
available for purchase by mail, at the Academy box office (Monday
through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), or online at www.oscars.org.
Doors open one hour prior to the event. All seating is
unreserved. The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at 1313 Vine
Street in Hollywood. For more information call (310) 247-3600 or
visit www.oscars.org.
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