Pygmalion

Duration: 1:30:00

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance

Year Published: 1938

Creator: Learning Corp. of America (Publisher) | Pascal Film Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Henry Higgins, phonetics professor, takes London flower girl Eliza Doolittle and turns her into an elegant lady of distinction. George Bernard Shaw's enormously successful play PYGMALION was the basis for "My Fair Lady." Shaw, himself, wrote the screenplay, which won an Academy Award. The Film also won 1938 Academy Award: Best Screenplay adaptation, Ian Dairymple, Cecil Lewis, and W.P. Lipscomb; Venice Film Festival 1938; Best Actor, Leslie Howard. Cast also includes Wendy Hiller, Winifred Lawson, Scot , The immortal and classic tale of authoritarian Henry Higgins, Professor of Elocution, who wagered his companion, Pickering, that within a few months instruction he could transform a Cockney flower girl into a lady. Eliza Doolittle, plucked from the market streets outside Covent Garden, was to be the object of his experiment, and hers a face he would grow much accustomed to. (Does not circulate)

Complete Record: , The immortal and classic tale of authoritarian Henry Higgins, Professor of Elocution, who wagered his companion, Pickering, that within a few months instruction he could transform a Cockney flower girl into a lady. Eliza Doolittle, plucked from the market streets outside Covent Garden, was to be the object of his experiment, and hers a face he would grow much accustomed to. (Does not circulate) , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.