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Pygmalion is a 1938 movie produced by Gabriel Pascal and starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller, based on the 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw. The film was codirected by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard. The film was an enormous financial and critical success and won an Academy Award Nomination for Best Picture.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Overview
A smug professor of linguistics, Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard), makes a bet with Colonel George Pickering (Scott Sunderland) that he can turn a simple Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller), into a refined lady within six months. Comedy with Shawvian social satire. The story lifts its title from the Greek myth about the sculptor who falls in love with his own statue of a lady, bringing sympathy from the gods who cause her to come to life. The script to this movie was later adapted into the theatrical musical "My Fair Lady" in 1956, which was again adapted into the 1964 Warner Brothers movie by the same name. Thus the interesting sojourn of the Pygmalion story goes from a Greek myth to an Irish play to a British movie to a Broadway play to a Hollywood movie.
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