Pygmalion
“He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!”
Director
Leslie Howard
Screenplay
George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Release
Oct 6, 1938
Budget
$350K
Country
United Kingdom
Revenue
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Cast
Leslie Howard
Henry Higgins
Wendy Hiller
Eliza Doolittle
Wilfrid Lawson
Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland
Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Pearce
David Tree
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Everley Gregg
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Leueen MacGrath
Clara Eynsford-Hill
Esme Percy
Count Aristid Karpathy
Violet Vanbrugh
Ambassadress
Irene Browne
Duchess
Kate Cutler
Grand Old Lady
O.B. Clarence
Mr. Birchwood
Ivor Barnard
Sarcastic Bystander
Iris Hoey
Ysabel
Cathleen Nesbitt
A Lady
Wally Patch
First Bystander
George Mozart
Third Bystander
Stephen Murray
Second Policeman
Reviews
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7/10
★★★★★
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Trailer
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Pygmalion
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