It's Eliza Doolittle Day

I suppose so ... and spend the day pretending you're half your actual age. Eliza is supposed to be barely legal, maybe twenty at most, but Audrey Hepburn was in her mid-thirties when she filmed My Fair Lady. And in the original performance of George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, the actress portraying Eliza was in her late forties. At least the Broadway production got it right -- Julie Andrews was twenty when My Fair Lady premiered in 1956.

I'm a cockney! And half-Irish! Don't have the accent of either, though.

> I think this needs to catch on, like May the Fourth.

I hadn't heard of that one, had to Google it. I'm not into Star Wars at all, though.

These subcultures' days are hard to keep track of, and sometimes odd and confusing. I wonder how many among the stoner crowd know that their beloved April 20 was also Adolf Hitler's birthday?

https://youtu.be/kITTN0k4u9k?t=74

lots of coal makin lots of 'eat...

I looked up Pygmalion on IMDB. I knew it had been made into a movie, but had no idea it's been made at least thirteen times. I've listed them below.

Funny thing. I mentioned in another reply in this thread that Audrey Hepburn was too old for the role when she did My Fair Lady. But that seems to be the rule rather than the exception with portrayals of Eliza. After each title I've put the year it was released in parentheses, and the year of birth of the actress in brackets.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030637/ (1938) [1912]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190673/ (1983) [1948]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029451/ (1937) [1901]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141753/ (1935) [1904]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294859/ (1948) [1916]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222304/ (1963) [1925]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223886/ (1982) [1952]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259220/ (1976) [1945]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132453/ (1968) [1932]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14264164/ (1959) [1926]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4440252/ (1954) [1909]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2526650/ (1957) [1927]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4068582/ (1956) [1919]

I understand that some roles require great depth and experience, and so an older performer has to be cast. It's an old joke in the theater that by the time an actor is ready to do Hamlet, he's too old for the role. But that doesn't strike me as the case with Eliza Doolitte. Maybe this is some weird theatrical tradition I've never heard of, similar to Peter Pan being traditionally portrayed by a woman, that this "flower girl" must be portrayed by someone past the point of being like a late adolescent at all. Perhaps we'll see Meryl Streep take on the role next.

When I was a kid I thought it was plane

> The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

No -- The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmU3iANbgk