Film

Pygmalion

1981 · 1h 30m

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.

Twiggy

Eliza

Robert Powell

Higgins

Mona Washbourne

Mrs. Pearce

Ronald Fraser

Colonel Pickering

Marsha Fitzalan

Clara Eynsford-Hill

Arthur English

Arthur Doolittle

Helen Shingler

Mrs. Higgins

Pauline Jameson

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Shaun Scott

Freddie Eynsford-Hill

• John GlenisterDirector
• Pat SandysProducer

Release date

December 27, 1981

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m