Alan Jay Lerner

Kelly is struggling fine artist Jerry Mulligan, an ex-GI in post-WWII Paris. Caron is lonely French shopgirl Lise Bouvier, engaged to marry a successful entertainer unless Jerry can convince her otherwise.

Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.