They’ve made a superlative film from the musical stage show My Fair Lady—a film that enchantingly conveys the rich endowments of the famous stage production in a fresh and flowing cinematic form. Bosley Crowther, 1964.

Eliza’s escape from the “lower classes” [is] a revolutionary act, dramatizing how “superiority” was inherited, not earned. It is a lesson that resonates for all societies, and the genius of My Fair Lady is that it is both a great entertainment and a great polemic. It is still not sufficiently appreciated what influence it had on the creation of feminism and class-consciousness in the years bridging 1914 when Pygmalion premiered, 1956 when the musical premiered, and 1964 when the film premiered. It was actually about something. Roger Ebert, 2006.