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"An Education" is a movie about the grand old English tradition of restraint. An older man must restrain himself from bedding a teenage girl half his age.

An Education Release date: October 30 Director: Lone Scherfig Starring: Dominic Cooper, Alfred Molina, Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan Life-changing choices for a girl on the brink of adulthood in this evocative period drama.

Actress Keira Knightley will portray Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the forthcoming film remake of the classic 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady .

BEFORE Nick Hornby turned Lynn Barber's early life into this year's must-see British film, An Education, the writer kept his distance from the infamous 'Demon Barber' of Fleet Street.

"An Education," the story of a London teenager's coming of age in the epoch just before the Beatles, stars Carey Mulligan.

Keira Knightley has been confirmed as the lead in 'My Fair Lady'. After months of speculation, the British actress - who is known for her glowing performances in period blockbusters 'Atonement' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - will definitely play Eliza Doolittle in the movie remake of the 1964 play 'Pygmalion' by George Cukor.

Well it looks like Keira Knightley really has given up on contemporary films. The 24-year-old actress is reportedly going to star in My Fair Lady , the latest adaptation from English director Joe Wright , whose other project, Indian Summer , fell apart just last week.

Keira Knightley has been informally linked to a remake of My Fair Lady for some time now.

By George, she's got it! Keira Knightley beats Scarlett Johansson to be My Fair Lady Keira Knightley may not yet have won any awards for her acting, but she has become the victor in a battle close to her heart.

You may not know the cool, sophisticated, up-?and-?coming Carey Mulligan just yet.

"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen, who played Mr. Darcy in the 2005 film version of "Pride and Prejudice," are to star in the West End in a new production of Noel Coward's 1930 comedy Private Lives .

"THAT'S A Dom Perignon '55, Mr. Bond. It would be a pity to break it." So said actor Joseph Wiseman in 1962, portraying "Dr. No" to Sean Connery 's original James Bond, in the first 007 film.

Film review: An Education How does a film with such a creepy storyline manage to be so charming? Let's not beat about the bush: Peter Sarsgaard plays David, a ne'er-do-well thirtysomething in 1961 London who courts 16-year-old Jenny, played by Carey Mulligan - whom, you may be relieved to discover, was 22 when the film was made.

Carey Mulligan once fell for an older man in real life. Then "I realized, `What am I doing?'." RENA< JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR The title of the Oscar-buzzed An Education refers to what Carey Mulligan's schoolgirl character inadvertently acquires as she's dodging classes to be with an older man.

She's dating Shia LaBeouf and appeared on David Letterman. She's buddies with the sudsy Warren Beatty, been called the "next Audrey Hepburn" and she's currently shooting Part 2 of the modern ode to money, Wall Street.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE actress ROSAMUND PIKE once went on a date with a fan after she was sent a letter inviting her for a meal.

Carey Mulligan is touted as an Academy Award frontrunner for her role as a naive schoolgirl who falls for an older man in the coming-of-age drama, An Education.

The much-lauded actress talks about living on the brink of fame. Mulligan plays Jenny, a '60s British teenager who grows up fast, in An Education .

Thanks to the raves coming out of Sundance and Toronto for her breakout performance in An Education , Carey Mulligan finds herself an early front-runner in this year's Best Actress race.

A determination not to follow her classmates to university and a speculative letter to Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes set Carey Mulligan on the path to becoming Hollywood's new "It Girl." The description is being applied to her more and more frequently as she does the rounds of film festivals with An Education and Oscar talk grows around her.