Pygmalion

About Pygmalion

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.

Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard directed Pygmalion, a 1938 comedy romance film. At 96 minutes long, it arrived in October 1938.

The film is filed under transformation, professor, teacher student relationship, and bet. The film began as a stage production.

Leslie Howard appears as Henry Higgins, Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle, Wilfrid Lawson as Alfred Doolittle, and Marie Lohr as Mrs. Higgins. The screenplay is by George Bernard Shaw and Ian Dalrymple. In the United States it streams on Artiflix, Criterion Channel, and FlixFling.

My Fair Lady, The Student, and Dead Poets Society make useful companions to Pygmalion, all filed under guttersnipe, high society, and pygmalion. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 168 votes.