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Pygmalion 1939

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 !
Cast:
Leslie Howard Leslie Howard
Henry Higgins 
Patrick Macnee Patrick Macnee
Extra (uncredited) 
Leo Genn Leo Genn
Prince (uncredited) 
Wilfrid Lawson Wilfrid Lawson
Alfred Doolittle 
Marie Lohr Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins 
Stephen Murray Stephen Murray
Second Policeman 
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