Audrey Hepburn or Katherine Hepburn?

The available clips of Audrey H singing Eliza suggest that she'd have been fine, but this was still very much not how it worked in Hollywood musicals

i found this quote (via quora) from http://www.julieandrewsonline.com/news/1960_news/maccalls_1966.html:

Did you do any special studying before you tackled Eliza?

JA: I ran the original movie with Wendy Hiller* over and over again and bawled every time. I studied cockney with an American professor of phonetics – here I was English, learning cockney from an American! – but I'm not very good at accents. Most of the work, I frankly confess, happened during performances – I didn't know what I was doing until about three months after we opened. Even with all of Moss Hart's help, I had to learn onstage, so to speak, and it's the best way to learn – if you can get away with it!

*(viz PYGMALION, 1938, in which hiller, born cheshire, was apparently first person to say "bloody" in a british film: "not bloody likely!")

mr doolittle in that version is an absolute marvel, disgusting

The available clips of Audrey H singing Eliza suggest that she'd have been fine, but this was still very much not how it worked in Hollywood musicals

― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 12:58 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

It's worth pointing out too that Jeremy Brett was apparently rather a good singer but they decided not to use his voice and so ruined the best song in the film by shooting him wandering around in the middle distance so you couldn't see his lips move.

Audrey is at her best and worst in Charade, on Amazon now and one of my comfort movies.

Oof -- scanning the thread spoiled it a bit to find out they were actually related, but only distantly. I rather liked the possibility they were identical twins but were in a real life Parent Trap situation.

Anyways, Kate Mulgrew (and Dana Carvey) are always shoe-ins for a Kathere-inactor but who could credibly be Audrey?

Because it's not Jennifer Love Hewitt!
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Tavi Gevinson?

Ariana Grande imo

chan marshall could have summoned the vibe at one time

they tried with Audrey Tatou but it never really took

It's curious how Audrey Hepburn suggests a shorter actress when she actually stood 5'7". Ariana Grande is 5'1" and Tavi Gevinson 5 feet even.

Yes I noticed she was pretty tall in My Fair Lady.

tavi gevinson is a horrible actress, based on the one half season of revived gossip girl I attempted to watch. that disqualifies her completely

but _does it_?

yes

deems was having a chuckle.

the fans of a big movie star have such a powerful attachment to their idol that it requires exceptional acting ability to convincingly impersonate them. it doesn't matter how much or little acting ability the movie star may have had.