Pygmalion 1939

Name: Pygmalion
Released: 1939-03-03
Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by:	Leslie Howard & Anthony Asquith
Written by:	Ian Dalrymple & George Bernard Shaw
Runtime:	96 minutes
Critics score:	94 / 100
Tagline:	He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly !