Pygmalion
(1938)
Director:
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Writer:
George Bernard Shaw, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Mayer, George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple
Cast:
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
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.