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Writers:
George Bernard Shaw (play)
George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue)
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Release Date:
3 March 1939 (USA) more
Tagline:
He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly ! . . . See Wendy Hiller, new star discovery, in this amazing role ! more
Plot:
Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(19 articles)
Wright Dismisses My Fair Lady Reports
(From WENN. 2 November 2009, 4:06 AM, PST)
A Cottage On Dartmoor d: Anthony Asquith
(From Alternative Film Guide. 30 October 2009, 3:36 PM, PDT)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Leslie Howard | ... | Professor Henry Higgins | |
| Wendy Hiller | ... | Eliza Doolittle | |
| Wilfrid Lawson | ... | Alfred Doolittle | |
| Marie Lohr | ... | Mrs. Higgins | |
| Scott Sunderland | ... | Colonel George Pickering | |
| Jean Cadell | ... | Mrs. Pearce | |
| David Tree | ... | Freddy Eynsford-Hill | |
| Everley Gregg | ... | Mrs. Eynsford-Hill | |
| Leueen MacGrath | ... | Clara Eynsford Hill | |
| Esme Percy | ... | Count Aristid Karpathy | |
| Violet Vanbrugh | ... | Ambassadress | |
| Iris Hoey | ... | Ysabel, Social Reporter | |
| Viola Tree | ... | Perfide, Social Reporter | |
| Irene Browne | ... | Duchess (as Irene Brown) | |
| Kate Cutler | ... | Grand Old Lady |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (UK) (complete title)
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Runtime:
96 min | USA:89 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Wide Range System)
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Canada:G (Ontario) | South Korea:12 | West Germany:6 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #4845)
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George Bernard Shaw wrote the ballroom scene especially for this movie. more
Quotes:
Eliza Doolittle: Walk? Not bloody likely. I'm going to take a taxi. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Will & Grace: Fagmalion Part 2: Attack of the Clones (#5.14)" (2003) more
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Shaw's brilliant play is expertly filmed by Howard and Asquith. Howard is perfectly cast as the snobbish Professor Higgins and is matched by Hiller, in her second film, as Eliza Doolittle. The fine supporting cast includes Sunderland, Lawson, and Lohr, who's terrific as Mrs. Higgins. It is difficult to make a bad film of this work, given Shaw's witty dialog, but film performance is different from stage performance, with film calling for more subtlety. The love-hate relationship between the professor and Eliza works wonderfully because Howard and Hiller provide the right combination of humor and humanity. Howard's role here is in sharp contrast to the wimpy Ashley the following year in Gone with the Wind.