My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins falls in love with her.
The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.
Rex Lloyd Lease was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in Poverty Row westerns.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series.
George O'Hara was an American motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era.
Patricia Joanne "Jenny" O'Hara is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for Dixie in My Sister Sam (1986–1988), Janet Heffernan in The King of Queens (2001–2007), and Nita in Big Love (2006–2009).
Doris Margaret Kenyon was an American actress of motion pictures and television.
Mary Maguire Alden was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood.
Dorathea "Dot" Farley was an American film actress who appeared in 280 motion pictures between 1910 and 1950. She was also known as Dorothy Farley.
Hessy Doris Lloyd was an English–American film and stage actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965). Lloyd appeared in two Academy Award winners and four other nominees.
Doris Hill, born Roberta M. Hill, was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.
The Little Irish Girl is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Dolores Costello. Based on the story The Grifters, written by Edith Joan Lyttleton, it is considered to be a lost film.
Men Are Like That is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Marion Dix, based on the George Kelly play The Show-Off, which had already been the source material for a 1926 silent film and which would subsequently be remade in 1934 and 1946. Men Are Like That stars Hal Skelly, Doris Hill, Clara Blandick, Charles Sellon, Helene Chadwick, Morgan Farley and George Fawcett. The film was released on March 22, 1930, by Paramount Pictures.
Arizona Terrors is a 1942 American Western film directed by George Sherman and written by Doris Schroeder and Taylor Caven. The film stars Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, Al St. John, Reed Hadley, John Maxwell and Frank Brownlee. The film was released on January 13, 1942, by Republic Pictures.
Yours to Command is a 1927 American comedy film directed by David Kirkland and written by Scott Darling and Ewart Adamson. The film stars George O'Hara, Shirley Palmer, William Burress, Dot Farley, Jack Luden and William J. Humphrey. The film was released on May 1, 1927, by Film Booking Offices of America.
The Mask of Lopez is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Albert S. Rogell, and starring Fred Thomson, Wilfred Lucas, and Hazel Keener.
Making the Varsity is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Cliff Wheeler and starring Rex Lease, Arthur Rankin, and Gladys Hulette.
The Great Ruby is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Barry O'Neil, based on the play of the same name by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. The film stars Beatrice Morgan, Octavia Handworth, and Eleanor Barry.
The Miracle Makers is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Leah Baird, George Walsh and Edith Yorke.
Queen of the Chorus is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Charles J. Hunt and starring Virginia Brown Faire, Rex Lease and Betty Francisco. It was made by the independent producer Morris R. Schlank.
