Pygmalion

• 6.985 Comedy
• 1939-03-03
• 96 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Leslie Howard Anthony Asquith

Writer:

George Bernard Shaw Ian Dalrymple