Pygmalion (1939)
06/10/1938 (GB)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
1h 36m
- 70% (144 votes)
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He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!
Overview
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.
- Anthony AsquithDirector
- Leslie HowardDirector
- Ian DalrympleWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$350,000
Keywords
- bet
- professor
- bath
- transformation
- tea
- etiquette
- elocution
- based on play or musical
- teacher
- teacher student relationship
- high society
- guttersnipe
- pygmalion
- flower vendor
- social class
- class system
- social reception
- mother son relationship
- speech lessons
- taken for granted
- phonetics
- quick learner
Top Billed 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
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