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Pygmalion 1938 — Romantic Comedy Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller
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Plot (may contain spoilers): The Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal wished to create a set of films based on Shaw's works, beginning with Pygmalion, and went to see Shaw in person to gain permission to do so. Shaw was reluctant to allow a film adaptation of Pygmalion owing to the low quality of previous film adaptations of his works, but Pascal managed to convince him (on the condition Shaw retained constant personal supervision of the adaptation) and later went on to adapt Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra and Androcles and the Lion. • The resulting Pygmalion scenario by Cecil Lewis and W.P. Lipscomb removed exposition unnecessary outside a theatrical context and added new scenes and dialogue by Shaw. Ian Dalrymple, Anatole de Grunwald and Kay Walsh also made uncredited contributions to the screenplay. A long ballroom sequence was added, introducing an entirely new character, Count Aristid Karpathy (seen both here and in the musical My Fair Lady, named as Professor Zoltan Karpathy – mentioned in the final scene of the original play, but with no name or onstage appearance), written wholly by Shaw. He and his fellow writers also managed to retain the controversial line Not bloody likely! from the play's text, making Hiller possibly the first person to utter that swear word in a British film and giving rise to adverts for the film reading Miss Pygmalion? Not ****** likely! • Plot • While wandering around Covent Garden, transcribing the conversation of passers-by, linguist Professor Higgins is mistaken for a policeman, causing hysterical protests from the flower girl Eliza Doolittle. The incident is cleared up with the help of Colonel Pickering, also a scholar of languages and dialects, who has come from India in order to meet Higgins. Bragging before Pickering, Higgins argues that by teaching Eliza to speak correctly, she could have a better future; indeed, he would be able to pass her off as a duchess. • Next morning, Eliza arrives at Higgins' house to ask for elocution lessons. Colonel Pickering then makes a bet with Higgins, offering to pay all the expenses if the professor manages to fulfil his boast in the space of a few months. Eliza is then taken to have a bath by Mrs Pearce, the housekeeper, and all her clothes but her floral hat are burned. While this is taking place, Eliza's father, the dustman Alfred Doolittle, arrives to demand compensation for the loss of his daughter. Amused by his roguish attitude, Higgins offers him £10, but Doolittle will only accept £5, explaining that as one of the undeserving poor he only wants enough for a drunken weekend. • After the tiring internship to which she is subjected by an inflexible Higgins, Eliza is sent as an experiment to an at-home gathering held by Mrs Higgins, the professor’s mother. There, though speaking in a well-bred accent, Eliza scandalizes those present with her vulgar, slang-filled conversation and profanity. But one of the guests - young Freddy Eynsford Hill - is fascinated by the girl. After the guests leave, Mrs Higgins voices her disgust that Eliza's two protectors are treating her more like a plaything than a human being. • After weeks of further coaching, during which Freddy tries in vain to see her again, Eliza is finally accompanied by Higgins and Pickering to an embassy reception. There Higgins meets his former pupil, the Hungarian Count Aristid Karpathy, who has become famous for his ability to coach American heiresses in elocution and identify the origins of high society people from their way of speaking. Higgins and Pickering fear that Eliza will be exposed by him, but she manages to deceive him so successfully that he takes her for a princess. • [file size limit, continue reading here] • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(1938_film)# • ------------- • Cast • Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins • Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle • Wilfrid Lawson as Alfred Doolittle • Marie Lohr as Mrs. Higgins • Scott Sunderland as Colonel George Pickering • Jean Cadell as Mrs. Pearce • David Tree as Freddy Eynsford-Hill • Everley Gregg as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill • Leueen MacGrath as Clara Eynsford-Hill • Esme Percy as Count Aristid Karpathy • Violet Vanbrugh as the Ambassadress • Iris Hoey as Ysabel, Social Reporter • Viola Tree as Perfide, Social Reporter • Irene Browne as the Duchess • Kate Cutler as The Grand Old Lady • Cathleen Nesbitt as Old Lady • O. B. Clarence as Mr. Birchwood, the Vicar • Wally Patch as First Bystander • H. F. Maltby as Second Bystander • Ivor Barnard as Sarcastic Bystander • Cecil Trouncer as First Policeman • Stephen Murray as Second Policeman • Eileen Beldon as Mrs Higgins’s Parlourmaid • Frank Atkinson as Taxi Driver • • This document includes material from the Wikipedia article Pygmalion (1938 film) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(1938_film)# • [keywords: #movie, #movies, #movieClassic #classicMovie, #motionPicture, #film, #cinema, #hollywood, #fulllengthmoviehouse]
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