Pygmalion (1939)
1h 36m
Running Time
March 3, 1939Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Leslie Howard
Henry Higgins / Director
Wendy Hiller
Eliza Doolittle
Wilfrid Lawson
Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland
Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Pearce
David Tree
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Everley Gregg
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Leueen MacGrath
Clara Eynsford-Hill
Esme Percy
Count Aristid Karpathy
Violet Vanbrugh
Ambassadress
Irene Browne
Duchess
Kate Cutler
Grand Old Lady
O.B. Clarence
Mr. Birchwood
Ivor Barnard
Sarcastic Bystander
Cecil Trouncer
First Policeman
Iris Hoey
Ysabel
Viola Tree
Perfide
Cathleen Nesbitt
A Lady
Wally Patch
First Bystander
H.F. Maltby
Second Bystander
George Mozart
Third Bystander
Stephen Murray
Second Policeman
Eileen Beldon
Mrs. Higgin's Parlourmaid
Frank Atkinson
Taxi-Driver
Anthony Quayle
Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)
Leo Genn
Prince (uncredited)
Moyna MacGill
Woman Bystander (uncredited)
Patrick Macnee
Extra (uncredited)
Anthony Asquith
Director
Cecil Lewis
Scenario Writer
George Bernard Shaw
Theatre Play / Screenplay / Dialogue
Hazel Wilkinson
Continuity
Sash Fisher
Sound Recordist
W.P. Lipscomb
Scenario Writer
Carl Mayer
Script Consultant
Madeleine Godar
Wardrobe Master
Baden Siddall
Property Buyer
Jack Hildyard
Camera Operator
Ladislaw Czettel
Costume Designer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 3, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Budget$350,000
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
bet
bath
professor
tea
transformation
etiquette
elocution
based on play or musical
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
pygmalion
Wiki.
Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.
The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Howard), and Best Actress (Hiller). The screenplay later was adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical My Fair Lady, which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name.
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