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Pygmalion (1938)
Directed by Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
“He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!”
Comedy, Drama, Romance · 1h 36m
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.
Cast
Leslie Howard
Henry Higgins
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
Crew
- Director
- Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
- Screenplay
- George Bernard Shaw
- Writer
- Ian Dalrymple
- Director of Photography
- Harry Stradling Sr.
- Editor
- David Lean
- Producer
- Gabriel Pascal
Details
- Release date
- 1938-10-06
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Gabriel Pascal Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Budget
- $350,000