PYGMALION

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• Release Year: 1938
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a 'proper lady' in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. This Academy Award-winning inspiration for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady was directed by Anthony Asquith and star Howard, edited by David Lean, and scripted by Shaw himself. Criterion presents Pygmalion in a beautifully restored digital transfer.
• Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, Jean Cadell, David Tree, Everley Gregg, Leueen MacGrath, Esme Percy, Violet Vanbrugh, Iris Hoey, Viola Tree, Irene Browne, Kate Cutler, Cathleen Nesbitt, O.B. Clarence, Wally Patch, H.F. Maltby, George Mozart, Ivor Barnard, Cecil Trouncer, Stephen Murray, Eileen Beldon, Frank Atkinson, Leo Genn, Moyna MacGill, Patrick MacNee, Anthony Quayle, Anthony Asquith, George Bernard Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple, Anatole de Grunwald, Kay Walsh
• Director: Anthony Asquith
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: Loew's Incorporated, Pascal Film Productions
• Media Format: Movie