My Fair Lady

[hilaryscott]

Where does the line 'the water in Majorca doesn't taste like it oughta' come from? Is it My Fair Lady movie?

[jennymac]

This was from a Heinekin advert some years back

[hilaryscott]

Many thanks

[Joe's Mum]

it was from My Fair lady originally though....(Stage version before the film)

[WaldoMcFroog]

My Fair Lady was a play before it was a film, of course. The Water in Majorca is a parody of the scene in which Henry Higgins teaches Elyza Doolittle how to speak properly with the phrase, 'The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain'.

[druiaghtagh]

i seem to remember Lorraine Chase saying it in an advert?

[EssJay1]

I think it should be "the wart ta in madge orca don't taste like wot it ort ta."  Not from Mu Fair Lady, but an advert.

[EssJay1]

Sorry My not Mu!!!

[maxi29]

My Fair Lady was not a play, although it was a stage musical. It's loosely based on a play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw.There is no line in the play or musical about water and Majorca; as Waldo points out, it was a parody. The actor in the ad was Brian Pringle but I'm pretty sure the actress wasn't Lorraine Chase.

[EssJay1]

Brian Pringle. Now he rings a bell and if so the girl was definitely not Lorraine Chase.