Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: My Fair Lady and Dumbo.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s
the described movies My Fair Lady from 1964, and Dumbo from 1941.
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.
With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London.
The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, with Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper and Wilfrid Hyde-White in supporting roles.
A critical and commercial success, it became the second highest-grossing film of 1964 and won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
In 1998, the American Film Institute named it the 91st greatest American film of all time.
In 2006 it was ranked eighth in the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list.
In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Directed by: George Cukor.
Screenplay by: Alan Jay Lerner.
Based on: My Fair Lady: by Alan Jay Lerner: and Pygmalion: by : George Bernard Shaw.
Produced by: Jack L. Warner.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, and Theodore Bikel.
Cinematography: Harry Stradling.
Edited by: William H. Ziegler.
Music by: Frederick Loewe.
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release date: 21 October 1964.
File Length: 173 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $17 million.
Box office: $72.7 million.
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book").
The main character is Jumbo Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo", as in "dumb".
He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as
wings.
Throughout most of the film, his only true friend, aside from his mother, is the mouse, Timothy – a relationship parodying the stereotypical animosity between mice and elephants.
Made to recoup the financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia, Dumbo was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studios.
At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features.
Sound was recorded conventionally using the RCA System.
One voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, but it, too, was recorded using the RCA System.
Dumbo was released on 23 October 1941, where it was met with generally favourable reviews.
However, it has also been criticized for racist stereotyping of black people.
In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".
A live-action adaptation of the film directed by Tim Burton was released on 29 March 2019.
Supervising Director: Ben Sharpsteen.
Sequence Directors: Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Bill Roberts , Jack Kinney, and Samuel Armstrong.
Story by: Joe Grant, and Dick Huemer.
Based on: Dumbo, the Flying Elephant: by: Helen Aberson, and Harold Pearl.
Produced by: Walt Disney.
Starring: Edward Brophy, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards, Herman Bing, Sterling Holloway, Margaret Wright , and Hall Johnson Choir.
Narrated by: John McLeish.
Music by: Frank Churchill, and Oliver Wallace.
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions.
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures.
Release dates: 23 October 1941 (New York City), and 31 October 1941 (U.S.)
File Length: 64 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $950,000.
Box office: >$1.3 million (est. United States/Canada rentals, 1941).
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