Pygmalion (1938)

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Directed by

Leslie Howard

Anthony Asquith

Starring (View all)

Leslie Howard
Higgins

Wendy Hiller
Eliza

Wilfrid Lawson
Doolittle

Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins

Scott Sunderland
Colonel Pickering

Jean Cadell
Mrs. Pearce

David Tree
Freddy

Everley Gregg
Mrs. Eynsford Hill

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George Bernard Shaw

Ian Dalrymple
uncredited

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The snobbish & 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.

Release date: 3 March 1939
UPC: 037429151822

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"Time for another round of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” except this version is the first English-language film adaptation of the play. In 1938’s "Pygmalion," Linguistics teacher Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) makes a bet with Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland) that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into an upper class lady. Soon, Eliza moves into Higgins’s house and begins her training, not long after Higgins makes the financial agreement with he"