Pygmalion (1938)

7.0/10 96 min Comedy Drama Romance

Overview

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

Henry Higgins

Wendy Hiller

Eliza Doolittle

Wilfrid Lawson

Alfred Doolittle

Marie Lohr

Mrs. Higgins

Scott Sunderland

Colonel George Pickering

Jean Cadell

Mrs. Pearce

David Tree

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Everley Gregg

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Leueen MacGrath

Clara Eynsford-Hill

Esme Percy

Count Aristid Karpathy

Violet Vanbrugh

Ambassadress

Irene Browne

Duchess

Kate Cutler

Grand Old Lady

O.B. Clarence

Mr. Birchwood

Ivor Barnard

Sarcastic Bystander

Iris Hoey

Ysabel

Cathleen Nesbitt

A Lady

Wally Patch

First Bystander

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