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Pygmalion
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Pygmalion

Oct 6, 1938
1h 36m
★ 7.0

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!

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.

Genres

Comedy
Drama
Romance

Production Companies

Gabriel Pascal Productions
J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Cast

Leslie Howard

Henry Higgins

Leslie Howard

Wendy Hiller

Eliza Doolittle

Wendy Hiller

Wilfrid Lawson

Alfred Doolittle

Wilfrid Lawson

Marie Lohr

Mrs. Higgins

Marie Lohr

Scott Sunderland

Colonel George Pickering

Scott Sunderland

Jean Cadell

Mrs. Pearce

Jean Cadell

David Tree

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

David Tree

Everley Gregg

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Everley Gregg

Leueen MacGrath

Clara Eynsford-Hill

Leueen MacGrath

Esme Percy

Count Aristid Karpathy

Esme Percy

Violet Vanbrugh

Ambassadress

Violet Vanbrugh

Irene Browne

Duchess

Irene Browne

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