In 1965, several categories of the Academy Awards® were still divided into black and white and color. Cinematography is one of the nine Academy Award® categories in 1965 in which My Fair Lady™ was pitted against Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady™ was victorious.
My Fair Lady™ was filmed in SuperPanavision 70, a wide screen process that gives this film it's larger than life quality, and Technicolor, a three color process which lends to the film's opulence and richness. Harry Stradling was the Director of Photography and in his long, prolific career he was nominated for eleven Academy Awards®. At the time he made My Fair Lady™, he had 300 feature films under his belt, one of them being Leslie Howard's Pygmalion. His other Academy Award® was for The Picutre of Dorian Gray, in 1945.

Audrey Hepburn was truly a fair lady. She was born in Brussels in 1929 and all through her difficult childhood, nurtured her dreams of becoming a dancer. She survived, with her family, the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during WWII. She continued her dance lessons during this time, in spite of the danger of traveling from home to school. She carried messages in her shoes and participated in recitals to raise money for the Dutch Resistance movement. She suffered greatly from malnutrition during what was later referred to as the Hunger Winter.
It is, in no small measure, because of this experience as a child, that she dedicated so much of her time in later years to helping others, particularly children, suffering oppression and malnutrition.
In 1988 she became a special ambassador to UNICEF and spent the last years of her life working for needy children. During her career in Hollywood, she brought talent, grace, and presence to each of her roles.

Playing Eliza Doolittle's father was almost second nature to Stanley Holloway by the time this production came to the screen. He had, after all, already played this role on the stage in New York and London for three and a half years. He was nominated for an Academy Award® in the Best Supporting Actor category for this, the most memorable role of his career.
He started his career performing in the British music halls in 1919 and was in his first film, The Rotters, in 1921. He went on to appear in nearly fifty films and was also the star of a television series, Our man Higgins, in the early sixties.