Movielogr
Pygmalion (1935)
Directed by Erich Engel
Overview
The poor, lower-class girl Eliza Dolittle sells flowers at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral to passers-by. Her plain jargon, her headstrong way of expressing herself, fascinates the briefly passing-by language researcher and phonetics teacher professor Higgins. He meets a good acquaintance, colonel Pickering, who is also interested in science, and makes a wager with him: Higgins bets that he can accomplish that, within just six months, he can turn the squalid girl with grubby looks into a gentle lady of the London society with splendid manners and a likewise pronunciation. Eliza may not know what’s coming for her, but after some persuasiveness, she agrees to move into the fine house of the professor.
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Jenny Jugo | Gustaf Gründgens | Anton Edthofer | Hedwig Bleibtreu | Eugen Klöpfer | Käthe Haack | Olga Limburg | Karin Evans | Vivigenz Eickstedt | Erika Glässner | Hans Richter