Approved | 1 h 36 min | Drama | Comedy | Romance

IMDB 7.7 / 10 (9,769 votes)

Pygmalion (1938)

Pygmalion | United Kingdom

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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Description

Director

Leslie Howard
Anthony Asquith

Stars

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

Others...

Budget

350,000.00

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Keywords

transformation, teacher, bet, professor, tea, based on play or musical, social class, mother son relationship, teacher student relationship, high society, elocution, bath, guttersnipe, flower vendor, pygmalion, etiquette, class system, social reception, speech lessons, taken for granted, phonetics, quick learner

Production

Gabriel Pascal Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Actor

Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, Jean Cadell, David Tree, Everley Gregg, Leueen MacGrath, Esme Percy, Violet Vanbrugh, Irene Browne, Kate Cutler, O.B. Clarence, Ivor Barnard, Cecil Trouncer, Iris Hoey, Viola Tree, Cathleen Nesbitt, Wally Patch, H.F. Maltby, George Mozart, Stephen Murray, Eileen Beldon, Frank Atkinson, Anthony Quayle, Leo Genn, Moyna MacGill

Creators

Leslie Howard (Director), Anthony Asquith (Director), Harry Stradling Sr. (Director of Photography), Gabriel Pascal (Producer), Arthur Honegger (Music), David Lean (Editor), John Bryan (Art Direction), George Bernard Shaw (Theatre Play), W.P. Lipscomb (Scenario Writer), Cecil Lewis (Scenario Writer), Phil C. Samuel (Production Manager), Teddy Baird (Assistant Director), Baden Siddall (Property Buyer), Laurence Irving (Set Designer), Sash Fisher (Sound Recordist), Jack Hildyard (Camera Operator), Ladislaw Czettel (Costume Designer), Madeleine Godar (Wardrobe Master), Carl Mayer (Script Consultant), Hazel Wilkinson (Continuity), Ian Dalrymple (Writer)

Release dates

06.10.1938 (GB)
29.08.1938 (IT)
08.12.1938 (US)
03.03.1939 (US)

Pygmalion (1938)

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