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Pygmalion (1939)

96 mins

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COMEDY

DRAMA

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.

name	character
Irene Browne	Duchess
Jean Cadell	Mrs. Pearce
Kate Cutler	Grand Old Lady
Everley Gregg	Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Wendy Hiller	Eliza Doolittle
Iris Hoey	Ysabel Social Reporter
Leslie Howard	Prof. Henry Higgins
Wilfrid Lawson	Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr	Mrs. Higgins
Leueen MacGrath	Clara Eynsford-Hill
Esme Percy	Count Aristid Karpathy
Anthony Quayle	Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)
Scott Sunderland	Colonel George Pickering
David Tree	Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Viola Tree	Perfide Social Reporter
Violet Vanbrugh	Ambassadress

name
Anthony Asquith	director
Ian Dalrymple	screenplay
Arthur Honegger	composer
Leslie Howard	director
Cecil Arthur Lewis	screenplay
W. P. Lipscomb	screenplay
Gabriel Pascal	producer
George Bernard Shaw	writer (original), screenplay

award	category	name	year
Academy Award	Best Screenplay	George Bernard Shaw	1938
Academy Award	Best Screenplay	W. P. Lipscomb	1938
Academy Award	Best Screenplay	Ian Dalrymple	1938
Academy Award	Best Screenplay	Cecil Arthur Lewis	1938

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