In 1964, Lerner and Loewe's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical made a seamless transition to Hollywood, with Rex Harrison reprising his role as the snobbish Professor Henry Higgins—and winning the Academy Award in the process. Cast against type, Audrey Hepburn excels as Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle, who seeks out Higgins for speech therapy and instead finds access to an affluent life and an unexpected romance.