Pygmalion

Pygmalion

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly !
19391h 36minComedy MoviesEnglish
7.0

Plot

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.

WriterGeorge Bernard Shaw
DirectorAnthony Asquith & Leslie Howard
ActorLeslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
CountryUnited Kingdom
ProductionGabriel Pascal Productions