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Pygmalion

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

1938 · 1 h 29 min
Directed by Anthony Asquith
ComedyDramaRomance

Cast

Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller Wilfrid Lawson Marie Lohr Scott Sunderland Jean Cadell

Plot

A phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, makes a bet that he can pass a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, off as a lady by teaching her to speak properly, in an adaptation of Shaw.

Sinekatalog’s take

A witty and classic Shaw adaptation, with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (10,649 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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