For other uses, see Eliza Doolittle (disambiguation).
Fictional character
Eliza Doolittle
Pygmalion character
Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle meets Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical adaptation of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady
First appearance
Pygmalion
Created by
George Bernard Shaw
Portrayed by
Mrs Patrick Campbell
Julie Andrews
Audrey Hepburn
In-universe information
Alias
Liza
Nickname
"The Flower Girl" (Act I)
Gender
Female
Occupation
Flower girl
Family
Alfred P. Doolittle (father)
Spouse
Freddy Eynsford-Hill or Henry Higgins
Nationality
English
Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the 1964 movie musical My Fair Lady.
Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady.
Eliza (from Lisson Grove, London) is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden. Higgins goes along with it for the purposes of a wager: That he can turn her into the toast of elite London society. Her Cockney dialect includes words that are common among working class Londoners, such as ain't; "I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman" said Doolittle.[1]
Doolittle receives voice coaching and learns the rules of etiquette. The outcome of these attentions varies between the original play and the various adaptations (see the Pygmalion article).
^Shaw, George Bernard. "Pygmalion/Act I". Retrieved 19 June 2016 – via Wikisource.
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