Movie · 1938
Pygmalion
“He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!”
Released 6 October 1938 96 min Comedy / Drama / Romance More from 1938 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Violet Vanbrugh
as Ambassadress
Kate Cutler
as Grand Old Lady
O.B. Clarence
as Mr. Birchwood
H.F. Maltby
as Second Bystander
Scott Sunderland
as Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell
as Mrs. Pearce
Esme Percy
as Count Aristid Karpathy
Ivor Barnard
as Sarcastic Bystander
Cathleen Nesbitt
as A Lady
Marie Lohr
as Mrs. Higgins
Irene Browne
as Duchess
Leslie Howard
as Henry Higgins
Frank Atkinson
as Taxi-Driver
Wilfrid Lawson
as Alfred Doolittle
Everley Gregg
as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Leo Genn
as Prince (uncredited)
Wendy Hiller
as Eliza Doolittle
Stephen Murray
as Second Policeman
Anthony Quayle
as Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)
Leueen MacGrath
as Clara Eynsford-Hill
David Tree
as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
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The numbers
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
71Violet Vanbrugh — oldest on the call sheet
23David Tree — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast