United Kingdom
1938
96 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
85
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.
| Professor Henry Higgins | Leslie Howard |
| Eliza Doolittle | Wendy Hiller |
| Doolittle | Wilfrid Lawson |
| Mrs. Higgins | Marie Lohr |
| Colonel Pickering | Scott Sunderland |
| Director | Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard |
| Producer | Gabriel Pascal |
| Screenplay | George Bernard Shaw |
| Scenario | W.P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling |
| Editing | David Lean |
| Music | Arthur Honegger |
| Art direction | John Bryan |
| Set designer | Laurence Irving |
| Assistant director | Teddy Baird |
| Camera | Jack Hildyard |
| Musical conductor | Louis Levy |
Anthony Asquith is remembered primarily as the director of Pygmalion, The Browning Version, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all stage-to-screen adaptations comfortable flaunting their own theatricality. Yet as critic Jay Weissberg writes in the latest issue . . .
“I wish to boast,” Bernard Shaw wrote, “that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play, both on stage and screen, all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it . . .
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