Julie Andrews

REX HARRISON was 'an appalling human being' on the My Fair Lady film set and tried to have 'that b**ch' Julie Andrews fired from the stage production.

It quickly leaked to the press that she was being dubbed and wasn’t ‘really’ singing the part she’d wrested from Julie and for which she was being so highly paid." Andrews was reported to have used a strong profanity to describe her time with Harrison on Broadway, while he, during their explosive run, once stormed out of the theatre shouting. Their relationship became so toxic that Harrison wouldn't sing the famous line "I've grown accustomed to her face" in any way to her. The actor had had a harder time with Andrews who was more overtly strong-willed. He said: "I'd done the show for so long in the theatre with Julie that any new leading lady was going to be a problem. He was charming and funny and a great raconteur but, Jesus Christ, what he did to people. He was an exquisitely impeccable actor but a basic hysteric—and unconscionable to his fellow actors." Claudette Colbert only spoke French in between takes to avoid (and irritate) him while Cleoptra co-star Roddy McDowell made the infamous comment: "He was emotionally unstable, like a wanton child. REX HARRISON was "an appalling human being" on the My Fair Lady film set and tried to have "that b**ch" Julie Andrews fired from the stage production. He really thought he was someone special." Harrison had been praised for joining the RAF in a non-combat role during World War II. Eileen Younghusband, who was a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force officer and served alongside the actor said: "He treated us like dirt. Even more evocative than the fire-hose comment was the infamous headline that ran after an encounter with an elderly lady autograph-hunter at a stage door.