Pygmalion
1938 · TMDB 7.0
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.
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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. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement wit...
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- Runtime
- 96 min
- Released
- 1938-10-06
- Studio
- Gabriel Pascal Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.0
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Key contributors
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Leslie Howard
Director
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Anthony Asquith
Director
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George Bernard Shaw
Writer
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Ian Dalrymple
Writer
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Wendy Hiller
Eliza Doolittle
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Wilfrid Lawson
Alfred Doolittle
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Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins
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Scott Sunderland
Colonel George Pickering
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Jean Cadell
Mrs. Pearce
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David Tree
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
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Everley Gregg
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill