Pygmalion
movie
He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!
Released October 06, 1938
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
as
Henry Higgins
Wendy Hiller
as
Eliza Doolittle
Wilfrid Lawson
as
Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr
as
Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland
as
Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell
as
Mrs. Pearce
David Tree
as
Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Everley Gregg
as
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Leueen MacGrath
as
Clara Eynsford-Hill
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Esme Percy
as
Count Aristid Karpathy
Violet Vanbrugh
as
Ambassadress
Irene Browne
as
Duchess
Crew
Anthony Asquith
as
Director
Leslie Howard
as
Director
George Bernard Shaw
as
Screenplay
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Cecil Lewis
as
Scenario Writer
Jack Hildyard
as
Camera Operator
W.P. Lipscomb
as
Scenario Writer
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Teddy Baird
as
Assistant Director
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Madeleine Godar
as
Wardrobe Master
George Bernard Shaw
as
Theatre Play
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Ladislaw Czettel
as
Costume Designer
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Carl Mayer
as
Script Consultant
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Hazel Wilkinson
as
Continuity