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Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle .
Pygmalion (1938), a British film adaptation by Shaw and others, starring Leslie Howard as Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza. Kitty (1945), a film based on the novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall (published in 1943). A broad interpretation of the Pygmalion story line, the film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young guttersnipe Cockney ...
In 1938 the British film was released in the Netherlands as The English Pygmalion. [6] After the film's release, Director Ludwig Berger departed for America to find his luck. He wanted the first director to make an American version of the film, but Shaw refused an offer to sell the film rights to Hollywood for $200,000. [7] Today the film is ...
For the 1938 film Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw personally requested that the young English actress Wendy Hiller play Doolittle, a part she had previously played on stage opposite Leslie Howard as Higgins. Her performance was the definitive film portrayal until Audrey Hepburn played the role in the highly successful 1964 film musical My Fair Lady.
Scott Sunderland, Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller in Pygmalion (1938) At Shaw's insistence, she starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins. This performance earned Hiller her first Oscar nomination, a first for a British actress in a British film, and became one of her best-remembered roles ...
Pygmalion, a Dutch film based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion (1938 film) , a British film starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller Pygmalion (1948 TV play) , a British television play starring Margaret Lockwood
His final film appearance was an uncredited part in Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) starring Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli. Haley died in 1979 at age 81 after suffering a heart attack.
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