Pygmalion
- Released on
- Runtime
- 96 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- 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
- Patrick Macnee
Director
- Anthony Asquith
- Leslie Howard
Producers
- Gabriel Pascal
Screenwriter
- George Bernard Shaw
