Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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

1939

1:36:59

Rate

7.0/10 (143)

Genre

Comedy
Drama
Romance

Plot

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.

Director

Leslie Howard