Pygmalion

Pygmalion

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1938-10-06
Duration:96 min
Director:Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Actors:Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland
Production:Gabriel Pascal Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

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.

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