Pygmalion (1939)
He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly !
Starring Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
Directed by Leslie Howard,Anthony Asquith
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.
Runtime: 96 min.
Rating: 7.0
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Genres: Comedy,Drama
Keywords: bet,bath,professor,tea,transformation,etiquette,elocution,learning and teaching,teacher,teacher student relationship,high society,guttersnipe,flower vendor,social class,class system,social reception,mother son relationship,speech lessons,taken for granted,phonetics,quick learner,based on play
Cast
Prof. Henry Higgins
Eliza Doolittle
Alfred Doolittle
Mrs. Higgins
Colonel George Pickering
Mrs. Pearce
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Clara Eynsford-Hill
Count Aristid Karpathy
Ambassadress
Duchess
Grand Old Lady
Ysabel Social Reporter
Perfide Social Reporter
Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)