Pygmalion (1939)

Comedy Drama

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.

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Runtime: 96 mins Budget: $350,000 Rating: 7.2 Tag Line: He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly !

Cast

Leslie Howard

Prof. Henry Higgins

Everley Gregg

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Wendy Hiller

Eliza Doolittle

David Tree

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Esme Percy

Count Aristid Karpathy

Marie Lohr

Mrs. Higgins

Wilfrid Lawson

Alfred Doolittle

Leueen MacGrath

Clara Eynsford-Hill