My Fair Lady: 1964 Best Picture

“My Fair Lady” won Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards over another musical “Mary Poppins”. They had 12 and 13 nominations respectively, with “My Fair Lady” winning 8 Oscars and “Mary Poppins” winning 5.

The other films nominated for Best Picture were a comedy: “Dr. Strangelove” or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” starring Peter Sellers; the dramatic “Becket” starring Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole; and “Zorba the Greek”, starring Anthony Quinn.

Best Actor nominations came from all the films in the Best Picture nominees except “Mary Poppins”. Rex Harrison won for his role as Professor Henry Higgins.

The only Best Actress nomination from a film nominated for Best Picture was Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins and she won. The other nominees were Anne Bancroft in “The Pumpkin Eater”, Sophia Loren in “Marriage Italian-Style”, Debbie Reynolds in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and Kim Stanley in “Seance on a Wet Afternoon”.

Other popular films that year included: “Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte”, “Topkapi, “Night of the Iguana”, the Beatles in “A Hard Day’s Night”; Clint Eastwood in “A Fistful of Dollars”; two James Bond films: “Goldfinger” and “From Russia with Love”; “Father Goose” and “The Pawnbroker”.

Jeopardy! clues on the movie “My Fair Lady”
MOVIE LAST LINES $100: In this 1964 film Rex Harrison barks, “Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?”
OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: Professor Henry Higgins
THEY ALMOST STARRED IN… $200: Cary Grant refused to play Henry Higgins in this film, saying he wouldn’t even see it unless Rex Harrison starred
MOVIE MUSICALS $400: She did her own singing in “Funny Face”, but she was dubbed in “My Fair Lady”
AUDREY HEPBURN FILM ROLES $200: Flower girl Eliza Doolittle

Related clues on Pygmalion and its author:
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES $200: He claimed he was in love with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle for her
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In the epilogue of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”, she marries Freddie, not Professor Higgins
LANGUAGES $300: In Shaw’s “Pygmalion”, it’s the dialect Eliza Doolittle is trying to lose

More 1964 film clues: (and despite the first clue’s “yes, George Hamilton”, he was quite good in the Hank Williams’ biopic)

’60s CINEMA $600: George Hamilton (yes, George Hamilton) played Hank Williams in this 1964 film whose title “will tell on you”
THE OSCARS: Winning Best Actress Oscars in 1964 & 65, these 2 British-born actresses share the same 1st name
MOVIE MONEY $800: This 1964 Sergio Leone film starring Clint Eastwood introduced the spaghetti western
COLOR MOVIES $1200: Henry Mancini got an Oscar nomination for the score to this 1964 Peter Sellers film
NIGHTS $800: This 1964 Beatles film was made for $500,000 & shot in a little over 6 weeks (they were working like dogs!)
ELVIS A TO Z $600: “V” is for this 1964 film that used the tagline “Elvis is at the wheel but Ann-Margret drives him wild!”
PLAYING DOCTOR $1600: A 1964 film featured Major “King” Kong, Gen. Buck Turgidson & this title character
MOVIE TWINS $2000: An Oscar nominee 10 times, she played twin sisters in 1946’s “A Stolen Life” & 1964’s “Dead Ringer”
VILLES DE FRANCE $1600: In a 1964 Jacques Demy film we saw “Le Parapluies de” this English Channel city
60s ROLES $1000: Title profession of Rod Steiger’s 1965 character Sol Nazerman
THINK PINK $200: The title of this 1964 film refers to a large gem, not Inspector Clouseau
PUBLISHERS $200: This publisher was portrayed by Natalie Wood in the 1964 film “Sex and the Single Girl”
THE MARSHALL PLAN $600: In the 1964 film “Ensign Pulver”, this future game show host played Carney
KUBRICK CLASSICS $300: Characters in this 1964 film include Col. Bat Guano & Gen. Jack D. Ripper
“SEVEN”s $800: Burt Lancaster plays a general who plans to overthrow the president in this 1964 film
CONNERY…SEAN CONNERY $1000: This 1964 film was the only time Sean worked with Alfred Hitchcock
MILITARY MOVIES $500: Jack Warden played Sgt. Welsh in the 1964 film of this James Jones novel, Sean Penn in the 1998 remake
DISNEY MOVIES $300: The costumes Julie Andrews wore in this 1964 film were designed by her first husband, Tony Walton
THE THEATER $200: On Nov. 17, 1968 Herschel Bernardi opened on Broadway in this role made famous by Anthony Quinn in a 1964 film
REEL MEN OF THE CLOTH $300: In this 1964 film Richard Burton was an alcoholic, philandering ex-clergyman in Mexico
HE WAS IN THAT? $800: Bruce Dern played Bette Davis’ decapitated young lover in this 1964 film, but keep it quiet
THE OSCARS $200: This 1964 James Bond film with Gert Frobe in the title role won a sound effects Oscar
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: He played a crime king in his last film, 1964’s “The Killers”
OSCAR NOMINEES: In a 1964 film, he played 3 characters but received only one nomination for Best Actor