Pygmalion (1938)




Scott Sunderland, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion




Professor Higgins is a phonetics scholar who believes that speech is the only thing that separates the upper class from the lower class. And so, he makes a bet that he can teach Eliza, a flower girl, to talk so well that people would mistake her for a princess... in only six months!


Books with substantial mentioning of Pygmalion

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Anthony Slide
Fifty Classic British Films Films 1932-1982, A Pictorial Record
New York, 1985

Jerry Vermilye
The Great British Films
Secaucus, N.J., 1978

Books with an entry on Pygmalion

Ivan Butler
Cinema in Britain, An illustrated Survey
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1973