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Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.
A linguistics professor bets he can turn a flower girl into a lady by teaching her to speak properly. Cast & Crew. Read More. Anthony Asquith. Director. Leslie Howard. [Professor Henry] Higgins. Wendy Hiller. Eliza [Doolittle] Wilfrid Lawson. [Alfred] Doolittle. Marie Lohr. Mrs. Higgins. Scott Sunderland. Colonel Pickering. Photos & Videos.
- Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard, Teddy Baird
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Pygmalion. Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a "proper lady" in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.
- Professor Henry Higgins
Pygmalion (1938, UK) is the British, non-musical film version of George Bernard Shaw's 1912 screenplay and 1913 stage play, which had its British opening in 1914. It was a socio-economic drama based on the Cinderella story, but actually taken from Ovid's Greek myth of Pygmalion - about a sculptor who fell in love with Galatea, a marble-ivory ...
Oct 11, 2017 · Pygmalion tells the story of the transformation of a poor and unrefined street urchin, a lowly flower seller, Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller), from guttersnipe to refined, graceful lady, and the lasting consequences of that transformation.
The snobbish and intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins, makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However, he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own. — Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>.
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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.
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