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Article: Talk musical. (Rex Harrison anecdotes)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 9, 1990
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FOR whatever else Sir Rex Harrison will be remembered, one achievement was unique. He created a new way of singing. And that was odd, because Sir Rex had no singing voice at all.
Until "My Fair Lady" no actor who was not also a professional singer could get near a Broadway musical. But in this remarkably faithful musical version of Shaw's "Pygmalion" a compromise seemed inevitable. Henry Higgins, a professor in phonetics, had above all to speak the King's English. Harrison, who had already starred in "The Citadel" and "Anna and the King of Siam", had a reputation as a bit of a cad, like Higgins, and he looked good in a tweed hat. (He was to do more for that ...
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