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Pygmalion (1938)

Average Score: 7 (rated by 151 viewers)

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.

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Additional info

CastReview
  • 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

  • Cecil Trouncer

    First Policeman

  • Iris Hoey

    Ysabel

  • Viola Tree

    Perfide

  • Cathleen Nesbitt

    A Lady

  • Wally Patch

    First Bystander

  • H.F. Maltby

    Second Bystander

  • George Mozart

    Third Bystander

  • Stephen Murray

    Second Policeman

  • Eileen Beldon

    Mrs. Higgin's Parlourmaid

  • Frank Atkinson

    Taxi-Driver

  • Anthony Quayle

    Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)

  • Leo Genn

    Prince (uncredited)

  • Moyna MacGill

    Woman Bystander (uncredited)

  • Patrick Macnee

    Extra (uncredited)