"Higgins, the girl has feelings!" both Pickering and Mrs. Pierce keep reminding him, so clearly these two don't think of her as a lab rat. Even Higgins' mother, a queen of society snobbishness, sympathizes with Eliza, and rightly criticizes "them" for not being grateful after she won their bet...
With all due respect to MY FAIR LADY's status as a legendary entertainment, in any incarnation, I always felt there was one false note in the story. I can never quite buy the character responses after the trio return home in triumph ("You did it!"). While I understand Higgins' insane...
It's taken quite some time for MY FAIR LADY and Audrey Hepburn's performance in it to be fairly judged, given the Julie Andrews substitution factor, the unexpected success of MARY POPPINS (which earned Ms. Andrews the Best Actress Oscar that same year), and the fact that Ms. Hepburn wasn't even...
I believe the MGM WIZARD OF OZ laserdisc you're talking about was actually derived from a Technicolor IB (dye transfer) source, and was identified as such. It was much nicer than what had been previously released.