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Pygmalion. A linguistics professor bets he can turn a flower girl into a lady by teaching her to speak properly. 120 IMDb 7.7 1 h 35 min 1939. X-Ray ALL. Comedy · Drama · Charming · Emotional.
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Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus in Greek mythology who was a king and a sculptor. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton,[1] he is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a ...
Oct 21, 2015 · Here a few other “Pygmalion” adaptations: “Pygmalion” (1938) The first movie adaptation of Shaw’s play starred Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins and Wendy Hiller, who also starred in ...
Pygmalion Full Play Summary. Two old gentlemen meet in the rain one night at Covent Garden. Professor Higgins is a scientist of phonetics, and Colonel Pickering is a linguist of Indian dialects. The first bets the other that he can, with his knowledge of phonetics, convince high London society that, in a matter of months, he will be able to ...
Pygmalion. 1939. 1 hr 36 mins. Drama, Comedy. NR. Watchlist. When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six ...
