Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady

In 1962 Warner Brothers asked Cecil Beaton to take charge of the clothes and sets for the film of My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.

For a year, Beaton rose at dawn in his hotel outside Los Angeles and wrote in his diary, ... before embarking on the perilous experience of navigating the highway leading to the Warner Brothers lot.

In these marvelously entertaining pages, Beaton's witty pen has recorded the strains, satisfactions, delights, and despairs of making a major movie, while his pencil has sketched the stars behind the scenes and his camera has recorded pictures of the film in progress.