Pygmalion(1938)

movie - first aired/released 1938-10-06 - 96 min - audience 7.0

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Directed by Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard

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.