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Pygmalion

Year:

1939

Duration:

96 min | USA:89 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1939-03-03

Filming Locations: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Patrick Macnee

Leslie Howard

Professor Henry Higgins

Wendy Hiller

Eliza Doolittle

Wilfrid Lawson

Alfred Doolittle

Marie Lohr

Mrs. Higgins

Scott Sunderland

Colonel George Pickering

Jean Cadell

Mrs. Pearce

David Tree

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Everley Gregg

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Leueen MacGrath

Clara Eynsford Hill

Esme Percy

Count Aristid Karpathy

Violet Vanbrugh

Ambassadress

Iris Hoey

Ysabel, Social Reporter

Viola Tree

Perfide, Social Reporter

Irene Browne

Duchess (as Irene Brown)

Kate Cutler

Grand Old Lady

Cathleen Nesbitt

Old Lady (as Kathleen Nesbitt)

O.B. Clarence

Mr. Birchwood, the Vicar

Wally Patch

First Bystander

H.F. Maltby

Second Bystander

George Mozart

Third Bystander

Ivor Barnard

Sarcastic Bystander

Cecil Trouncer

First Policeman

Stephen Murray

Second Policeman

Eileen Beldon

Mrs' Higgins Parlormaid

Frank Atkinson

Taxi Driver

Leo Genn

Prince (uncredited)

Moyna MacGill

Woman Bystander (uncredited)

Anthony Quayle

Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

When Shaw died in 1950, his home in Ayot St Lawrence became a museum. One of the artefacts in it is his Oscar, which initially had become so tarnished that the curator assumed it had no value and had been using it as a door stop. That situation has since been rectified.

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Moyna MacGill is the only performer to appear in both this film (Woman Bystander) and its musical remake, My Fair Lady (1964) (Lady Boxington). Both films were also photographed by Harry Stradling Sr.

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The scene in which Eliza accidentally swallows a marble whilst having an elocution lesson does not appear in the original play. During rehearsals for this scene a pained expression came over Wendy Hiller's face; when she spat out the marbles she had in her mouth she said: "Leslie, I've swallowed one!" to which Leslie Howard replied "Never mind there are plenty more". This caused such amusement among the watching crew that it was added to the film.

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Goofs

When Higgins and Pickering tear off all about London looking for Eliza, several contemporary (late 1930's) cars are in the background. This film was set in 1912.

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Quotes

Prof. Henry Higgins: [directed to Eliza in anger] Get out and come home and don't be a fool!

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Eliza Doolittle: I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.

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Prof. Henry Higgins: You might marry you know? Youre not bad-looking; it's quite a pleasure to look at you sometimes-not now, of course, because youre crying and looking as ugly as the very devil; but when youre all right and quite yourself, youre what I should call attractive. That is, to the people in the marrying line, you understand. You go to bed and have a good nice rest; and then get up and look at yourself in the glass; and you wont feel so cheap.

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