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Pygmalion

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Pygmalion
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NR,1hr 36min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1938
Directors:
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfred Lawson  ...more
Synopsis: Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland) that he can pass her off as a duchess within three months. Pickering accepts Higgins' bet, with Eliza readily agreeing to the proposal, since she will get to live in Higgins' fancy home. ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
One of George Bernard Shaw's most popular and durable plays concerns the stuffy British professor of phonetics who, on a bet, tries to transform a flower girls' speaking style from lower-class Cockney to proper English, with all it implies. Pygmalion was first filmed in Great Britain in 1938 and became an instant classic. Featuring well-pitched performances from Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller in the ... Full Review
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Wendy Hiller
Eliza Doolittle
Leslie Howard
Prof. Henry Higgins
Wilfred Lawson
Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins
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