 91. MY FAIR LADY
Warner Bros., 1964
PRINCIPAL CAST Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White
DIRECTOR George Cukor
PRODUCER Jack L. Warner
SCREENWRITERS Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Professor Henry Higgins bets he can turn a flower girl into a lady just by teaching her to speak properly. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Lerner and Loewe’s celebrated Broadway musical comes to the screen with Hepburn celebrating her transformation with, “The rain in Spain, stays mainly in the plain!”
92. A PLACE IN THE SUN
Paramount, 1951
PRINCIPAL CAST Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
DIRECTOR George Stevens
PRODUCER George Stevens
SCREENWRITERS Michael Wilson, Harry Brown Theodore Dreiser’s celebrated novel, An American Tragedy, comes to the silver screen in Stevens’ re-telling of the tragic story. When the brooding Clift meets beautiful socialite Taylor, he has to do something about his pregnant girlfriend Winters. Whether or not Winter’s drowning death is accidental, Clift must pay the ultimate price.
 99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
Columbia, 1967
PRINCIPAL CAST Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton
DIRECTOR Stanley Kramer
PRODUCER Stanley Kramer
SCREENWRITER William Rose Tracy and Hepburn, in their final film pairing, are forced to come to terms with their progressive views, when their daughter wants to marry an African-American doctor. Poitier and Houghton, Hepburn’s real life niece, broke some barriers in a movie that sparked controversy and asked many difficult questions.
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