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Encyclopedia > Eliza Doolittle

Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character who appears in the play Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and, by extension, the musical version of that play My Fair Lady. Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw written in 1913. ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederic Loewe, adapted from George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion. ...


Eliza is a Cockney flower girl, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden. Higgins goes along with it for the purposes of a wager: that he can turn her into the toast of elite London society. Covent Garden is a shopping and entertainment complex in central London. ...


Doolittle receives voice coaching and learns the rules of etiquette. The outcome of these attentions varies between the original play and the various adaptations are discussed at the Pygmalion article. Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw written in 1913. ...


The part of Eliza was originally played by Mrs Patrick Campbell, at that time the most famous actress on the London stage but considered by many to be far too old for the role. The unprecedented use of the word "bloody" - as a scripted intensive - caused a sensation when Campbell delivered it. Mrs Patrick Campbell (February 9, 1865 - April 9, 1940) was a British stage actress, the most successful of her generation. ...


George Bernard Shaw personally requested the young english actress Wendy Hiller to repeat her stage performance and play the first film version of the character in the 1938 film Pygmalion. Her performance served as the definative film portrayal until Audrey Hepburn played the role in the highly successful 1964 film musical My Fair Lady. Wendy Hiller in I Know Where Im Going! (1945) Dame Wendy Hiller (August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003) was a distinguished English film and stage actress. ... Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was a Belgian-born actress, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...


Joseph Weizenbaum named his artificial intelligence computer program ELIZA after this character. Joseph Weizenbaum. ... Artificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... ELIZA is a famous 1966 computer program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which parodied a Rogerian therapist, largely by rephrasing many of the patients statements as questions and posing them to the patient. ...


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ELIZA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (688 words)
ELIZA is a famous 1966 computer program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which parodied a Rogerian therapist, largely by rephrasing many of the patient's statements as questions and posing them to the patient.
ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, a working-class character in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, who is taught to speak with an upper class accent.
Eliza JS A JavaScript implementation of ELIZA, with frames and without frames.
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