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Pygmalion

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!
He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorou...
Comedy, Drama, Romance - 1938
Pygmalion
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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.
Director:
,
Leslie Howard
,
Anthony Asquith
Cast:
,
Leslie Howard
,
Everley Gregg
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Wendy Hiller
,
David Tree
,
Marie Lohr
,
Wilfrid Lawson
,
Leueen MacGrath
,
Scott Sunderland
,
Jean Cadell

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Details

Runtime:
96 min
Release date:
6 Oct 1938
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$350,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 5 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Smartly produced, this makes an excellent job of transcribing George Bernard Shaw, retaining all the key lines and giving freshness to the theme.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Nov 2007
fresh:
A marvelous 1938 adaptation of the Shaw classic.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2007
fresh:
Pygmalion is good Shaw and a grand show.
– Frank S. Nugent,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Above all, the film is remarkable in that it strengthens rather than dilutes Shaw's insistence on language as the vital instrument of power and oppression.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
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