Shaw's Pygmalion

Duration: 20

Year Published: 1938

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Presents an excerpt from a feature motion picture which was based on the play by George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion. Opens at Covent Garden Market where Professor Higgins meets Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl, and Colonel Pickering. Shows the remarkable change in Eliza's speech, manners, and grooming as a result of the efforts of Professor Higgins to "transform" her into a duchess. Closes at the ambassador's reception, where Eliza successfully passes as a duchess.

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