My Fair Lady (1964, Warner Brothers, dir. George Cukor, Lerner and Loewe, play by George Bernard Shaw, G, 170 min) was one of the big early musicals, where a stuck-up phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) takes a bet that he can make a flower girl into a debutante. Great songs were 'The Rain in Spain stays mainly in the Plain,' (it doesn't), and 'I could have danced all night' (anticipating today's night life) and most of all, 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' -- which would get the attention of @LibsofTikTok today.
I saw this movie at the Warner Theater in downtown Washington DC the evening (in April 1965) before traveling to Boonton, New Jersey to see a high school friend get married—a bit of personal trivia
Does anyone remember the days when the main theaters downtown DC were the Capitol, Palace, and Columbia? Cinerama movies were shown at the Warner. We'll re-view those later.