
Pygmalion
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.
Director Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
Cast

Everley Gregg
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Frank Atkinson
Taxi-Driver

Wendy Hiller
Eliza Doolittle

Violet Vanbrugh
Ambassadress

Iris Hoey
Ysabel

Cathleen Nesbitt
A Lady

Scott Sunderland
Colonel George Pickering

Leueen MacGrath
Clara Eynsford-Hill

Kate Cutler
Grand Old Lady

Wilfrid Lawson
Alfred Doolittle

Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins

Irene Browne
Duchess

Stephen Murray
Second Policeman

Moyna MacGill
Woman Bystander (uncredited)

Ivor Barnard
Sarcastic Bystander

George Mozart
Third Bystander

Anthony Quayle
Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)

Patrick Macnee
Extra (uncredited)

Leslie Howard
Henry Higgins

David Tree
Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Esme Percy
Count Aristid Karpathy

Wally Patch
First Bystander

Jean Cadell
Mrs. Pearce

O.B. Clarence
Mr. Birchwood

Leo Genn
Prince (uncredited)