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Pygmalion

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

7.0(168)19381h 36m2

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$350K
Box office
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Language
English
  • bet
  • professor
  • bath
  • transformation
  • tea
  • etiquette
  • elocution
  • based on play or musical
  • teacher
  • teacher student relationship
  • high society
  • guttersnipe

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew York City, New York8 Dec 1938
    • Theatrical3 Mar 1939
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalLondon (Rated A)6 Oct 1938
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereVenice Film Festival29 Aug 1938
  • XCXC

    • TheatricalRe-release2 Aug 1946

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Pygmalion was released on 6 October 1938.

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  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/20/2022

    7/10

    Even though it was made some 25 years, or so, before "My Fair Lady" it still takes a few minutes before you get used to the fact that it has no singing... Once that has been established, we can enjoy a witty and pithy observation of class and superficiality that raises both smiles and heckles in equal measure. Leslie Howard is great as the somewhat snobbish phonetics expert ("Prof. Higgins") who bets his pal "Col. Pi…

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