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Pygmalion

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

★ 7.0 1938 96 min ComedyDramaRomance

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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Release
1938-10-06
TMDB score
7.0/10
Original language
EN
Status
Released
Production
United Kingdom
Studio
Gabriel Pascal Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Topicsbetprofessorbathtransformationteaetiquetteelocutionbased on play or musical

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