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
Scott Sunderland
as Colonel George Pickering
Kate Cutler
as Grand Old Lady
George Mozart
as Third Bystander
Jean Cadell
as Mrs. Pearce
Everley Gregg
as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Esme Percy
as Count Aristid Karpathy
Wendy Hiller
as Eliza Doolittle
David Tree
as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Leueen MacGrath
as Clara Eynsford-Hill
Marie Lohr
as Mrs. Higgins
Frank Atkinson
as Taxi-Driver
Leo Genn
as Prince (uncredited)
Violet Vanbrugh
as Ambassadress
Patrick Macnee
as Extra (uncredited)
Irene Browne
as Duchess
Ivor Barnard
as Sarcastic Bystander
Anthony Quayle
as Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)
Moyna MacGill
as Woman Bystander (uncredited)
Leslie Howard
as Henry Higgins
O.B. Clarence
as Mr. Birchwood
Iris Hoey
as Ysabel
Wilfrid Lawson
as Alfred Doolittle
Cathleen Nesbitt
as A Lady
