A friend and I were talking about the movie version of MY FAIR LADY earlier today. He was a school teacher and used to show the film to the kids in his class to teach them about the English class system.

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play PYGMALIAN, MY FAIR LADY was released in 1964 and starred Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn as Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. It had a marvelous supporting cast as well, though one of the cast who gets very few mentions is the actor who played young Freddy.

Freddy meets Eliza at the races and is completely taken by her. Later on in the film he tries to see her, only to be rebuffed. Undaunted he delivers her flowers and wanders up and down the street where she lives, hoping to run into her. While he does this he sings probably my favorite song from the movie “On the Street Where You Live”

My wife loves My Fair Lady. We’ve had it on VHS and DVD and we’ve watched it many, many times. This scene is one of our favourites, even though my wife calls it a “stalker’s love song”.

The best part, however is that the actor playing young Freddy is none other than the late Jeremy Brett who later on, in the 1980’s became much better known for playing one of the absolute best Sherlock Holmes in a series from Granada Television.

And… that’s all I got for today.

I haven’t written anything on here since my birthday which is dreadfully remiss of me. I need to get back to posting here regularly.

So, I’ll leave you with a question: Do you like Brett better as Freddy or as Sherlock Holmes? Leave me a comment.