Pygmalion

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!

Sinopse

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.

7.0
1938
Released
1h 36m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$350,000.00

Keywords

#bet
#professor
#bath
#transformation
#tea
#etiquette
#elocution
#based on play or musical
#teacher
#teacher student relationship
#high society
#guttersnipe
#pygmalion
#flower vendor
#social class
#class system
#social reception
#mother son relationship
#speech lessons
#taken for granted
#phonetics
#quick learner

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Reviews

@Geronimo1967over 3 years ago

Even though it was made some 25 years, or so, before "My Fair Lady" it still takes a few minutes before you get used to the fact that it has no singing... Once that has been established, we can enjoy a witty and pithy observation of class and superficiality that raises both smiles and heckles in equal measure. Leslie Howard is great as the somewhat snobbish phonetics expert ("Prof. Higgins") who b