My Fair Lady

The movie opens with Professor Henry Higgins meeting Colonel Pickering as they are each leaving the theater. It turns out that the two have admired each other's work in linguistics for years. Higgins hears a flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, bawl and makes a bet with Pickering that he can turn even this cockney into a lady with an accent so pure no one will guess her background. The men make her an offer, but she declines. later Eliza arrives at Higgins's home, where Pickering is now staying, with money for diction lessons. Her goal in life is to acquire enough upper-class speech to get her a job in a shop rather than selling on the street...