Pygmalion

Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1939-03-03 | United Kingdom

7.0 / 10

96 min.

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly !

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.