Pygmalion
1938, 95 minutes, Rated G
A bullying and smug bachelor, linguistics Profesor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) makes a bet with Colonel George Pickering (Scott Sutherland) that he can turn an impetuous Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a lady within six months. To do so, he must transform her thick-accented voice by coaching her to speak-proper English with elocution lessons, teach her manners, and drill her mercilessly so that she will become educated.
Pygmalion (1938) is the non-musical film version of George Bernard Shaw's 1912 stage play, a socio-economic drama based on the Cinderella story, but actually taken from the Greek myth of Pygmalion - about a sculptor who fell in love with a marble statue of his own making. The Broadway musical remake that was inspired by this film, Lerner and Loewe's 1956 production, also led to the famous film musical My Fair Lady (1962), that would walk away with eight Oscars (out of twelve), including Best Picture, Pygmalion garnered four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor (Leslie Howard), Best Actress (wendy Hiller) and Best Screenplay.
- Director:
- Anthony Asquith [9],
- Starring:
- Leslie Howard [5], Wendy Hiller [9], Jean Cadell [1], Scott Sutherland [1], Marie Lohr [1], Wilfrid Lawson [1],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Mono
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