 Jack L. Warner (qv) originally didnt want Rex Harrison (I) (qv)  to reprise his stage role as Higgins for the film version, since he  had seen _Cleopatra (1963)_ (qv) and thought the actor looked too  old to be believable as Audrey Hepburn (qv)s love interest.  Peter OToole (I) (qv) was considered for the role of Professor  Higgins, but his salary demands were too high. Harrison responded in  a letter to Warner that he had only looked old as Julius Caesar  because he had been playing an epileptic at the end of his life, and  after sending some publicity photographs of himself 