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Pygmalion

(1938)

October 6, 1938 1h 36m
70%
TMDB Score

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 Asquith

Director

Top Billed Cast

LH

Leslie Howard

Henry Higgins

WH

Wendy Hiller

Eliza Doolittle

WL

Wilfrid Lawson

Alfred Doolittle

ML

Marie Lohr

Mrs. Higgins

SS

Scott Sunderland

Colonel George Pickering

JC

Jean Cadell

Mrs. Pearce

DT

David Tree

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

EG

Everley Gregg

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

LM

Leueen MacGrath

Clara Eynsford-Hill

EP

Esme Percy

Count Aristid Karpathy