Pygmalion - Essential Art House

Starring: Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 715515043519
• Release Date: February 2009
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Criterion Collection
• Director: Anthony Asquith;Leslie Howard
• Starring: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

An excellent screen adaptation.

This is a screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play based on Greek mythology. Shaw also scripted this movie adaptation. Wendy Hiller plays the part of Eliza Doolittle, a c-o-c-k-n-e-y flower seller. Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard), a scholar in phonetics, bets a colleague, Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland), that he can pass Eliza off as a duchess in six months by adjusting her speech pattern to proper-English. This is a classic story and played by major actors of their time and ours. Windy Hillier is also famous for her role in “Major Barbara” (1941), many Pressburger and Powell movies, and even into today’s era with “The Kingfisher” (1983) as Evelyn. Windy Hiller died on 14 May 2003. You will also enjoy the remake of this film as a musical, "My Fair Lady" (1964). This film is a must for your collection.