What is an "Eliza Doolittle"?

Answer 1

a fair lady, of course.

Answer 2

Eliza Doolittle is a female character in the famous film, 'My Fair Lady' and the dramatised version by G.B.Shaw, 'Pygmalion'. Here is the introduction of the said character:-





It is here in the opening scene of My Fair Lady™ where we meet all of the main characters, Professor Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, and Colonel Pickering. It is also here that they are each introduced to one another.

After an evening at the opera, the members of high society begin spilling out onto the streets of London, mingling with the commoners. Professor Higgins hears Eliza, the flower girl, speaking and begins to take notes. Eliza finds this behavior suspicious and immediately assumes that she is in some sort of trouble. She protests that she was doing nothing wrong and the Professor keeps taking notes. He finally explains himself and his interest in linguistics by singing "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak."


This song attracts Colonel Pickering who, as it turns out, has come from India to meet Professor Higgins, a leader in the field of linguistics. The Professor and the Colonel begin talking about their shared interest in speech and unknowingly plant the seed that will grow into Eliza's desire ("Wouldn't It Be Lovely?") to be a lady.

Answer 3

"Eliza Doolittle" is the character in George Bernard Shaw's
play, "Pygmalion", and the Broadway musical and motion picture "My Fair Lady".

Eliza is the Mayfair London flower seller that Professor Henry Higgins, a language scholar, bets he can train to learn the Engish upper-class pronunciation, and he can pass off as an upper-class Lady. The original play was intended as a social commentary to work a variation on an ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion-- a sculptor who falls in love with the statue he had created. The movie musical made it more of a "cinderella" story. Eliza turns the tables on Professor Higgins in the end, showing that she is a fully realized independent woman.

Answer 4

Eliza Doolittle was the main character in "My Fair Lady". It is the classic from "rags to riches" story based on Pygmalion. A learned professor takes interest in transforming a Cockney women into a "mannered woman of stature".

Answer 5

My Goodness !! People are talking about the film "My Fair Lady"? George Bernard Shaw has been completely forgotten ? Eliza Doolittle is his creation. Read "Pygmalion".

Answer 6

its a character from "MY FAIR LADY" ............


For the 1964 film, see My Fair Lady (film).

My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It was originally adapted by producer Gabriel Pascal into a musical from the screenplay of the 1938 movie


Audrey Hepburn played the role of Eliza Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY.

Answer 7

Well I am one that reads George Bernard Shaw and I didnt forget about Pygmalion, and My Fair Lady.
It is a Cinderella story basically like they sad rags to riches. She was of very high moral standings she was not a tramp. She was poor and uneducated, and was educated by a professor of Etiquete among other things and she was transformed into a Lady. A delightful book and a very entertaining move as well, with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. If you like music it is wonderful instrumentation and vocals too.

Answer 8

shes a character in my fair lady of course. in the movie shes a really common girl who is then transformed into this beautiful lady. its really good.

Answer 9

a Lady who has been transformed from a rough unseemly person to a gentile lady of the finest sort

Answer 10

It's either a mixed drink that I don't want to try, or a young uneducated tramp that has the capacity to become a well-spoken woman. AKA "My Fair Lady."

'Course, maybe it's just about booty...