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Pygmalion

Country: UK, Language: English, 96 mins

  • Director: Anthony Asquith; Leslie Howard
  • Writer: George Bernard Shaw
  • Producer: Gabriel Pascal

CGiii Comment

Shaw won the Oscar for the writing...

Perhaps the beauty behind this film is solely down to Asquith - a man of privilege, an alcoholic and firmly in the closet...his father was Prime Minister.

So...he certainly knew how to hide behind a facade, how to create a different character.

A shining film of the age...all manners, subterfuge and prejudice.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The snobbish and intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However, he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.

Cast & Characters

Leslie Howard as Professor 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;
Esme Percy as Count Aristid Karpathy