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Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady. Read more
| Starring | Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Winifred Lawson, Scott Sunderland |
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| Director | Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard |
| Genres | Drama |
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Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady.
| Starring | Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Winifred Lawson, Scott Sunderland |
|---|---|
| Director | Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard |
| Studio | SECOND SIGHT FILMS |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1938 To Rent: DVD: 06 Aug 2007 |
While the British film industry tumbled into one of the more serious of its periodic crises, an unlikely bunch of... read more on Time Out
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Bloody marvellous!
(The original play, first performed in Britain in 1914, caused a stir by being the first to include the word 'bloody' - how times change.)
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pygmalion the
this movie was and is a classic i first saw my fair lady and found this excellent well worth watching and i agree with all the previous positive reviews.
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Good Theatre
We enjoyed this as a filmed version of Shaw's original play - with some good dialogue and arguments, some fine acting and an excellent social commentary on... read more »
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Leslie Howard
This was one of the best pre-war films and I remember seeing it not once but several times.
I was thrilled to be able to see it again it stirred ... read more »
Veteran actress Dame Diana Rigg is returning to the spotlight with a role in a West End production of Pygmalion - 37 years after she last starred in the play. The Avengers star, 72, played the lead role of Eliza Doolittle in a 1974 production of George Bernard Shaw's classic at London's Albery Theatre, which later became the Noel Coward Theatre. She is now returning to the West End to star in the play once again, this time taking on the role of Professor Henry Higgins' mother. Rigg will star... Read more