Pygmalion

IMDb link: 0030637
IMDb rating: 7.7 (10,488 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr and others

Release date: 3 Mar 1939
Release year: 1938
Runtime: 89 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: based on play, period drama, reference to shakespeare, reference to john milton, police, police officer, formal ball, basket of flowers, woman in a bathtub, reference to a beheading

Plot:

The snobbish and intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins, makes a bet with his friend that he can pluck a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady; however, he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.

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