Pygmalion (1938)

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!

• Comedy
• Drama
• Romance

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.

Rating

7 / 10 (168 votes)

Release date

October 6, 1938

Runtime

1h 36m

Language

English

Director

Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith

Status

Released