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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Comedies Movies, Foreign Films Videos, Essential Cinema, British, Vintage, Criterion Collection, Switching Roles, Gentry | | Starring | Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfred Lawson, Marie Lohr, Jean Cadell, Scott Sunderland, David Tree | | Director | Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith | | Composer | Arthur Honegger | | Director of Photography | Harry Stradling | | Editor | David Lean | | Producer | Gabriel Pascal | | Screenwriter | George Bernard Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis | | Source Writer | George Bernard Shaw |
Black & White; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English In a variation on the original Pygmalion myth, an English phonetics professor makes a wager that he can transform a Cockney flower girl into an elegant lady. Using his linguistic expertise, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle the speech and manners that allow her to move effortlessly among the rich and titled. Higgins wins his bet, but the young woman, tired of his overbearing tutelage and sexist ways -- and unsure of where she now belongs in society -- develops a mind of her own and a surprising independence. George Bernard Shaw's play, PYGMALION, which takes its title from the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue of his own making, was a hit on the London stage in 1912. The transition to film was co-directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard, who also stars as Henry Higgins, the vainglorious snob who claims he can turn a guttersnipe into a Lady. Wendy Hiller is smart and witty, giving as good as she gets, as Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl Higgins takes from the street and tries to pass off as a Duchess. Hiller and Howard play off each other with a delightful spark. The play opens up well for the screen, as evidenced in the dreamy sequence when Eliza attends a society party, a scene smoothly edited by the young David Lean.
Shaw wrote the film script himself, ensuring that his original setting in the more innocent time before WWI, didn't feel dated in the dark days of 1938. Other writers were brought in to lighten Shaw's view of the class conflict between Higgins and Eliza, and to lessen the amount of brow beating Higgins employs. Still, compared with the musical version, MY FAIR LADY, there is no magical Cinderella process here, but a painfully, realistically resisted struggle mixed with a slowly developing romance.
Filmed at Pinewood Studios in England.
PYGMALION was adapted again for the screen in 1964 as the musical MY FAIR LADY.
The change of his ending so enraged George Bernard Shaw that he refused to sell the rights for a musical. MY FAIR LADY could only be made after his death.
Shaw won an Oscar for his script. He's the only person to win an Oscar and a Nobel Prize.
The film was voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the New York Times.
Pygmalion Reviews: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ts place in British cinema history is assured through the biting wit of Shaw's language and the tremendous performances."-- Ian Nathan, Empire "Wendy Hiller makes a wonderfully vivacious Eliza Doolittle and Leslie Howard brings a supercilious edge to Professor Higgins in this lively adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play."-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound Pygmalion | List Price | $19.95 (You save $7.75) | | Studio | Image Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1938 | | All Time Sales Rank |  87405  | | CD Universe Part number | 7802379 | | Catalog number | 13 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 10, 2009 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 95 Minutes | | Additional Info | Black & White | | Movie Details | B&W; Black & White; Criterion / Art House Collection |
Pygmalion Movie Review  MY PALE LADY......!!!!!!
To put it in a nutshell, this is a disappointment, after seeing "My Fair Lady"!! There is absolutely no comparrison. The latter wins in every respect!! It has 3 hours of sheer magic,
compared to 90 mins. of dullness. Leslie Howard is no Rex Harrison (It is not fair since Harrison played the part on stage for years, and he perfected it), and Wendy Hiller will never come near to the elegance of Audrey Hepburn. The father, played by Stanley Holloway can never be matched by anyone else (again the stage play), and the only one whom I can think of as better in the original film was the mother played by Marie Lohr.
One more remark for Criterion, who brag that they issue perfect Videos. They should be ashamed to charge such a high price for this edition.
I have seen "My Fair Lady" tens of times since it was released, and I have always enjoyed it enormously every single time!!(No wonder it swept 8 oscars). This "Pygmalion" I wouldn't see a second time!!!!!
Submitted by y.ben-david (Givatayim, Israel.) 
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