Movielogr
Pygmalion (1939)
Directed by Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
Overview
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.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Leslie Howard | Wendy Hiller | Wilfrid Lawson | Marie Lohr | Scott Sunderland | Jean Cadell | David Tree | Everley Gregg | Leueen MacGrath | Esme Percy | Violet Vanbrugh | Irene Browne | Kate Cutler | O. B. Clarence | Ivor Barnard | Cecil Trouncer | Iris Hoey | Viola Tree | Cathleen Nesbitt | Wally Patch | H.F. Maltby | George Mozart | Stephen Murray | Eileen Beldon | Frank Atkinson | Anthony Quayle | Leo Genn | Moyna MacGill | Patrick Macnee