Pygmalion (1938)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Directors:

Anthony Asquith
Leslie Howard

Escritores:

George Bernard Shaw (play)
George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 marzo 1939 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly ! . . . See Wendy Hiller, new star discovery, in this amazing role !

Plot:

Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady.

Plot Keywords:

Professor | Language | Culture Clash | Forbidden Love | Cinderella Story

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Good, and definitely not My Fair Lady

Reparto

Leslie Howard	...	Professor Henry Higgins
Wendy Hiller	...	Eliza Doolittle
Wilfrid Lawson	...	Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr	...	Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland	...	Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell	...	Mrs. Pearce
David Tree	...	Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Everley Gregg	...	Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Leueen MacGrath	...	Clara Eynsford Hill
Esme Percy	...	Count Aristid Karpathy
Violet Vanbrugh	...	Ambassadress
Iris Hoey	...	Ysabel, Social Reporter
Viola Tree	...	Perfide, Social Reporter
Irene Browne	...	Duchess (as Irene Brown)
Kate Cutler	...	Grand Old Lady

También conocida como:

Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (UK) (complete title)
Pigmalión (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

96 min | USA:89 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Wide Range System)

Clasificación:

Canada:G (Ontario) | South Korea:12 | West Germany:6 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #4845)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Compañía:

Gabriel Pascal Productions

Trivialidades:

When Shaw died in 1950, his home in Ayot St Lawrence became a museum. One of the artefacts in it is his Oscar, which initially had become so tarnished that the curator assumed it had no value and had been using it as a door stop. That situation has since been rectified.

Citas:

First Policeman: [to Eliza and Freddie, who are kissing on the street] Now then, now then, now then. This isn't Paris, you know.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Remington Steele: My Fair Steele (#2.10)" (1983)

Good, and definitely not My Fair Lady

After seeing Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins, there is no way I could find Rex Harrison half as appealing, with his chanting/singing, in My Fair Lady. Leslie Howard simply is Henry Higgins, and if he seems unappealing and unlikable, that's because he's supposed to be unappealing and unlikable -- Henry Higgins is not a nice man. Howard does an incredible job with the role, and Wendy Hiller's Eliza puts Audrey Hepburn, as lovely as she is, to shame.

If George Bernard Shaw thought that Howard's interpretation of his play was good, then who are we to argue?