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The Fabian Society are an intellectual Socialist society which was founded in 1883 by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter, and George Bernard Shaw amongst others.
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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish writer. He was born in 1856 in Dublin and died in 1950.
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John Eugene Vedrenne was a British stage manager. He was born in 1867. Leaving a commercial career, he became business manager to various London theatres. In 1904 he took the Court Theatre and, in partnership with Granville Barker made many striking productions, including plays of Euripides, and contemporary writers, such as George Bernard Shaw. The partnership ended in 1907, and John Vedrenne became associated with Lewis Waller at The Lyric, and in 1911 with Dennis Eadie at The Royalty, and later at The Kingsway.
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Sir Rex Harrison was an English actor. He was born in 1908 at Huyton, Lancashire and died in 1990 of pancreatic cancer. He is best remembered for his starring role as Professor Henry Higgins in the 1964 film version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady.
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Janet Achurch (real name Janet Achurch Sharp) was an English actress. She was born in 1864 at Lancashire and died in 1916. She made her debut at the Olympic Theatre, London in 1883 and subsequently toured with the actor-manager Frank Benson, playing various Shakespearean roles. She is best known for her pioneering association with the works of Ibsen. She took the role of Nora in The Doll's House, and both produced and starred in Little Eyolf in 1896. After playing the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Candida in 1900, which he wrote for her, she was described by the playwright as a tragic actress of genius. She also toured extensively with her actor-husband Charles Carrington, until she retired in 1913.
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My Fair Lady is a musical starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde White and Gladys Cooper in an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion about a professor of phonetics who bets a friend that he can coach a cockney flower girl and pass her off as a lady at any social gathering. My Fair Lady was directed by George Cukor in 1964.
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George Bernard Shaw is London Cockney rhyming slang for door.
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