Pygmalion

Pygmalion (1937)

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.

Date of release
1937-02-26
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Ludwig Berger

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Pygmalion

Pygmalion is a 1937 Dutch film, based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, directed by Ludwig Berger.

Production

George Bernard Shaw, the writer of the same play, sold the rights in 1935 to several film studios from different countries, including the Netherlands. The Dutch company NV Filmex bought the film rights for a sum of 500 guilders. The first film was The German version from 1935, to which Shaw gave very little praise. The star of the Dutch version was Lily Bouwmeester.

The film was completed in 1937. Shaw spoke condescendingly about the film because he thought it outrageous that the ending was changed. Nevertheless it was a huge success and was even screened in cinemas internationally. It was one of only two films from the Netherlands between 1934 and 1940 to be praised by both critics and audiences. This was remarkable, because during this period, 37 films were released.

Today the film is seen as one of the three most successful films from the period before the Second World War. On January 25, 2007 the film was released on DVD by the Dutch Filmmuseum.

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