Producer Jack L. Warner originally didn't want Sir Rex Harrison to reprise his stage role as Professor Higgins for the movie version, since he had seen Cleopatra (1963) and thought the actor looked too old to be believable as Audrey Hepburn's love interest. Peter O'Toole was considered for the role of Professor Higgins, but his salary demands were too high. Harrison responded in a letter to Warner Brothers that he had only looked old as Gaio Giulio Cesare because he had been playing an epileptic at the end of his life, and after sending some publicity photographs of himself, minus his toupee, he was eventually cast.

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