| Pygmalion | |
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| Directed by | Anthony Asquith Leslie Howard |
| Screenplay by | George Bernard Shaw W. P. Lipscomb Cecil Lewis Ian Dalrymple |
| Based on | Pygmalion 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw |
| Produced by | Gabriel Pascal |
| Starring | Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller Wilfrid Lawson Leueen MacGrath |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling |
| Edited by | David Lean |
| Music by | Arthur Honegger |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £87,000[1] |
| Box office | $1.4 million[2] |
Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.
The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Howard), and Best Actress (Hiller). The screenplay later was adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical My Fair Lady, which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name.
- ^ "Hollywood Merry Go Round". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1939. p. 5 Edition: Home Edn. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-299-23004-3.