

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Writing
Shaw's razor dialogue barely softened
Acting
Hiller's Eliza—feral, then fierce, never fragile
Costume
The ascot-to-ascension wardrobe journey

Director
Anthony Asquith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Pygmalion myth ends with the statue coming alive and marrying her creator—Shaw's version is deliberately, viciously different.
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