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Pygmalion

1938 96 min Comedy, Drama, Romance

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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1 win

3 nominations

  • 1938 ACTOR (Professor Henry Higgins) Leslie Howard
  • 1938 ACTRESS (Eliza Doolittle) Wendy Hiller
  • 1938 OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

budget $350,000

director Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith

writers George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple

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