Pygmalion (1938) | |
| Director(s) | Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard |
| Producer(s) | Gabriel Pascal |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Professors |
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Pygmalion (1938) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Leslie Howard and Anthony Asquith and produced by Gabriel Pascal.
Academy Awards 1938 --- Ceremony Number 11 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | Leslie Howard | Nominated |
| Best Actress | Wendy Hiller | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Screenplay and Dialogue by George Bernard Shaw; Adaptation by W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalry | Won |
| Best Picture | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nominated |
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Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller
By Greg Orypeck on Feb 19, 2014 From Classic Film FreakShare This!?I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.? ?? Eliza Doolittle The 1964 film musical version of George Bernard Shaw?s 1912 play, now retitled My Fair Lady and, some say, the most anticipated film since Gone With the Wind, earned many headlines and captured much attention during pro... Read full article
Pygmalion (1938)
By Beatrice on Nov 29, 2013 From Flickers in TimePygmalion Directed by Anthony Asquith Written by George Bernard Shaw 1938/UK Gabriel Pascal Productions Repeat viewing This may be the best adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play. ?I love this film! Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) bets that he can pass Cockney flower seller Eliza... Read full article
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By Alyson on Dec 21, 2010 From The Best Picture ProjectIn the first month of this blog, I watched My Fair Lady, the musical remake of Pygmalion, for the first time in my life and simply ripped that film a new one. ?I still stand behind what I said, but realize now that all I needed to enjoy the same story was less flamboyant actors and no musical interr... Read full article
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Quotes from
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Eliza Doolittle: I'm a good girl, I am!
Eliza Doolittle: I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.
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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.
George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have won both the Academy Award and the Nobel Prize. Some sources incorrectly list former US vice president Al Gore as another person who won both prizes. Al Gore did win the Nobel Peace Prize; however, the Oscar for Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth was given to the film's director, Davis Guggenheim.
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