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Pygmalion

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!

Not Rated Comedy Drama Romance

Starring: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland

Writer: George Bernard Shaw, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Mayer

Release Date:
October 6, 1938
Ratings:
7.0 / 10
Director:
Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard
Companies:
Gabriel Pascal Productions

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.