Pygmalion (1938 film)

Pygmalion
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Directed by	Anthony Asquith Leslie Howard
Screenplay by	George Bernard Shaw W. P. Lipscomb Cecil Lewis Ian Dalrymple
Based on	Pygmalion 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw
Produced by	Gabriel Pascal
Starring	Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller Wilfrid Lawson Leueen MacGrath
Cinematography	Harry Stradling
Edited by	David Lean
Music by	Arthur Honegger
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	6 October 1938 (1938-10-06)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£87,000[1]
Box office	$1.4 million[2]

Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.

The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Howard), and Best Actress (Hiller). The screenplay later was adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical My Fair Lady, which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name.