And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

In 1956, Lerner and Loewe unveiled My Fair Lady.

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

He was surprisingly able to complete " I Could Have Danced All Night " from My Fair Lady in one 24 hour period.

He would sometimes write songs with someone in mind, for instance, " I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face " from My Fair Lady was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

* Best Book of a Musical, 1957 My Fair Lady

* Best Original Score, 1957 My Fair Lady and 1974 Gigi

* Best Musical, 1957 My Fair Lady

* My Fair Lady, 1964 ( screenwriter / lyricist )

The Making of My Fair Lady.

It produced full scale productions of popular musicals and operettas including Oklahoma !, Carousel, The Mikado, Guys and Dolls, The Pirates of Penzance, Me and My Girl, My Fair Lady, The Yeoman of the Guard, Gigi, Fiddler on the Roof, The Gondoliers, Anything Goes, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe, The Producers and HMS Pinafore.

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Two years later, Cukor achieved one of his greatest successes with My Fair Lady.

Following My Fair Lady, Cukor became less active.

After he had turned down an offer to play Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, he found it easier to rebuff others, including a part in The Godfather Part II.

In the 1960s the success of the films West Side Story, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, and The Sound of Music suggested that the traditional musical was in good health.

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* 1956 – My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

Until 2009, the video rights to My Fair Lady were with original theatrical distributor Warner Bros., under license from CBS ( the video license to that film has now reverted to CBS DVD under Paramount ).

Other notable early disco hits include The Jackson 5 ’ s " Dancing Machine " ( 1974 ), Barry White ’ s " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " ( 1974 ), LaBelle ’ s " Lady Marmalade " ( 1975 ) and Silver Convention ’ s " Fly Robin Fly " ( 1975 ).

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

" Biographer Ian McIntyre discusses the possibility of Reynolds having enjoyed sexual rendezvous with certain clients, such as Nelly O ' Brien ( or " My Lady O ' Brien ", as he playfully dubbed her ) and Kitty Fisher, who visited his house for more sittings than were strictly necessary.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

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In 1956, Olive Hodgkinson, a cave guide whose husband's family owned the caves for over 500 years, was a contestant on What's My Line?

His other TV appearances included Down You Go, What's My Line ?, Camera One, Ken's Column, Trader Horne ( a weekly advertising magazine for the Tyne Tees region ), Let's Imagine, Call My Bluff ( as team captain ), and various specials with Richard Murdoch such as Free and Easy ( 1953 ) and Show for the Telly ( 1956 ).

In 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared.

By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

* Maxine Sullivan, A Tribute to Andy Razaf, 1956, produced by Leonard Feather, re-issued in 2006 as My Memories of You with two additional non-Razaf tracks.

In 1992, Mantle wrote My Favorite Summer 1956 about his 1956 season.

Kelly was a Mystery Guest on the March 11, 1956, broadcast of What's My Line?

He was referred to in Günter Grass's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht, shortly before both of them died in the summer of 1956.

* Shirley Bassey recorded the song in 1956 and it appeared on the B-side of her first single " Burn My Candle ( At Both Ends )" released on the Philips record label.

( In 1956, after Howard's death, Lerner and Loewe set Pygmalion to music in My Fair Lady.

All-white doo-wop groups were also appearing ; The Mello-Kings ' 1956 " Tonight, Tonight " and The Diamonds ' chart-topping " Little Darlin '" in 1957, The Skyliners ' 1959 " Since I Don't Have You " and 1960 " This I Swear ", The Tokens ' 1961 " Tonight I Fell In Love " and " I Love My Baby " all saw success.

Among his earliest songs was " Lonely Boy " ( 1956 ), " The Man From Galilee " ( 1956 ) " inspired by Sunday School stories ", the unreleased " Bopping With My Girl "; " My Feet are on the Rock " ( 1958 ), " The Thanksgiving Song " ( 1959 ); " Country Church, Country People " ( 1959 ), was written for his grandmother Lena.

Pearce also notes that in her 1956 book, All the Books of My Life, Kaye-Smith said she had based " Mrs Adis " on an old story by St Francis de Sales.

* Sheila Kaye-Smith ( 1956 ), All the Books of My Life, Cassell, London, 1956