Pygmalion (1938 film)

Pygmalion
Poster
Directed byAnthony Asquith
Leslie Howard
Screenplay byGeorge Bernard Shaw
W. P. Lipscomb
Cecil Lewis
Ian Dalrymple
Based onPygmalion
1913 play
by George Bernard Shaw
Produced byGabriel Pascal
StarringLeslie Howard
Wendy Hiller
Wilfrid Lawson
Leueen MacGrath
CinematographyHarry Stradling
Edited byDavid Lean
Music byArthur Honegger
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 6 October 1938 (1938-10-06)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-299-23004-3.