Pygmalion
Pygmalion
Release: 1938-10-06
·Runtime: 96m
·★ 7.0
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Gabriel Pascal Productions
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Stephen Murray
as Second Policeman
Esme Percy
as Count Aristid Karpathy
Anthony Quayle
as Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)
Kate Cutler
as Grand Old Lady
Ivor Barnard
as Sarcastic Bystander
Leo Genn
as Prince (uncredited)
O.B. Clarence
as Mr. Birchwood
Leslie Howard
as Henry Higgins
Wilfrid Lawson
as Alfred Doolittle
Violet Vanbrugh
as Ambassadress
Marie Lohr
as Mrs. Higgins
David Tree
as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Cathleen Nesbitt
as A Lady
Jean Cadell
as Mrs. Pearce
George Mozart
as Third Bystander
Frank Atkinson
as Taxi-Driver
Scott Sunderland
as Colonel George Pickering
Iris Hoey
as Ysabel
Moyna MacGill
as Woman Bystander (uncredited)
Patrick Macnee
as Extra (uncredited)
Irene Browne
as Duchess
Wendy Hiller
as Eliza Doolittle
Everley Gregg
as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Leueen MacGrath
as Clara Eynsford-Hill
