Pygmalion

Henry Higgins, phonetics professor, takes London flower girl Eliza Doolittle and turns her into an elegant lady of distinction. George Bernard Shaw's enormously successful play PYGMALION was the basis for "My Fair Lady." Shaw, himself, wrote the screenplay, which won an Academy Award. The Film also won 1938 Academy Award: Best Screenplay adaptation, Ian Dairymple, Cecil Lewis, and W.P. Lipscomb; Venice Film Festival 1938; Best Actor, Leslie Howard. Cast also includes Wendy Hiller, Winifred Lawson, Scot , The immortal and classic tale of authoritarian Henry Higgins, Professor of Elocution, who wagered his companion, Pickering, that within a few months instruction he could transform a Cockney flower girl into a lady. Eliza Doolittle, plucked from the market streets outside Covent Garden, was to be the object of his experiment, and hers a face he would grow much accustomed to. (Does not circulate)

Credits

Directed by: Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
Written by: Kay Walsh, George Bernard Shaw, Anatole de Grunwald, Cecil Arthur Lewis, Ian Dalrymple, W. P. Lipscomb
Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Moyna Macgill, Irene Browne, Wilfrid Lawson, Jean Cadell, David Tree, Esme Percy, Cathleen Nesbitt, Helen Westley, Scott Sunderland, Leueen MacGrath, Marie Lohr
Produced by: Gabriel Pascal
Cinematography: Harry Stradling
Music: Arthur Honegger
Edited by: David Lean

Complete catalog record

, The immortal and classic tale of authoritarian Henry Higgins, Professor of Elocution, who wagered his companion, Pickering, that within a few months instruction he could transform a Cockney flower girl into a lady. Eliza Doolittle, plucked from the market streets outside Covent Garden, was to be the object of his experiment, and hers a face he would grow much accustomed to. (Does not circulate)
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