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06/10/1938 Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 36m
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He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!

Overview

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.

  1. Leslie Howard

    Director

  2. Anthony Asquith

    Director

  3. Ian Dalrymple

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Leslie Howard

    Henry Higgins

  2. Wendy Hiller

    Eliza Doolittle

  3. Wilfrid Lawson

    Alfred Doolittle

  4. Marie Lohr

    Mrs. Higgins

  5. Scott Sunderland

    Colonel George Pickering

  6. Jean Cadell

    Mrs. Pearce

  7. David Tree

    Freddy Eynsford-Hill

  8. Everley Gregg

    Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

  9. Leueen MacGrath

    Clara Eynsford-Hill

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-20
Even though it was made some 25 years, or so, before "My Fair Lady" it still takes a few minutes before you get used to the fact that it has no singing... Once that has been established, we can enjoy a witty and pithy observation of class and superficiality that raises both smiles and heckles in equal measure. Leslie Howard is great as the somewhat snobbish phonetics expert ("Prof. Higgins") who bets his pal "Col. Pickering" (Scott Sunderland) that he can take the gutturally linguistic flower girl "Eliza" (Wendy Hiller) and pass her off as a duchess to the highest of society. Hiller is super, ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$350,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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