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Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 3, 1939

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

User Score

70%

Original Title

Pygmalion

Production Companies

Gabriel Pascal Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Director

Leslie Howard

Budget

$350,000

Description

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.