PYGMALION (1938) - Full Movie

This classic centers around a conceited language professor who tricks his snobby peers by teaching a girl from the gutter to behave like a lady-and everyone thinks she is a princess! Nominated for a best Picture Academy Award, and won one for Best Screenplay (Written by famed playwright George Bernard Shaw and adapted by Ian Dalrymple). Also, the play was later remade as My Fair Lady, which also won several Oscars. Stars Oscar-winning actors Leslie Howard and Dam Wendy Hiller. NOTE: Contains profanity.

[@noc8523]

Anyone else here watching this for a class?

[@zainabkashan9325]

Role play in our school!

[@himanshikumari4306]

YuP!! Me for mY English chapTer! Nd whT about youu??

[@shamlyashraf3406]

Certainly,. Me 🖐 watching for my English Literature class

[@praisentungwa]

Heehe me

[@Ariel-ry1gb]

For English 🥲

[@connied2451]

The difference between a lady and a flower girl isn't the way she behaves, it's the way she's treated.

[@wyominghome4857]

Actually, it's also the way she behaves, if she's truly a lady.

[@Radical_Middle]

treat is for behavior

[@vitaquasus1120]

Movies are fun to watch, even when foolish.

[@denvan3143]

@@wyominghome4857 Higgins denies your point. He threw Eliza‘s refined behavior in her face as though it was merely what he had taught her, as though behavior is not something that is learned but inherent. Pickering treated Eliza as a lady from the beginning.

[@wyominghome4857]

@@denvan3143 Higgins wasn't a gentleman, as I'm sure his mother would have agreed. :)

[@kerryhorwitz4093]

Best line ever by Mrs Higgins: "I'm surprised she just threw the slippers. I'd have thrown the fire irons at you."

[@robfriedrich2822]

Or better a fire extinguisher....

[@EJLegionHonor]

What a marvelous performance of Eliza! She was astonishing!

[@snehakristall2113]

yes but so was Audrey Hepburn

[@annawan2518]

Love both Pygmalion and My Fair Lady.

[@sameeragamal5414]

Audery was the best

[@user-rc7ir3fk1v]

Audrey Hepburn andJulie Andrews both failed to find the Cockney girl Eliza must rise up out of to fulfill Shaw's conceit!

[@markbrisson2102]

Julie was too beautiful for cockney Eliza ( she’d have trouble being a “good girl”). Audrey was way too skinny. Men didn’t think that look was attractive until the 1960s. Wendy was unattractive is the beginning and so regal at the ball.

[@eddiecheung7795]

Leslie Howard was classy, handsome and charming with impeccable acting.

[@marquitaarmstrong399]

You may be right never saw him on stage stick on cinema just my opinion stay blessed and healthy

[@sherrymiller2302]

Those Doe Eyes always got to me.. and still does. LOL

[@hilaryc3203]

@@marquitaarmstrong399 Well you wouldn't have would you, unless you're a very, very elderly person, as he was killed in WWII.

[@hilaryc3203]

@sam loran No, he did not. There is absolutely no rumour about that, so stop lying for attention.

[@whydoe7929]

@sam loran wtf are you talking abt pls

[@skyisthelimit6434]

Such a beautiful movie! As a student of English literature I hope to read the original play in near future. This flawless adaptation changed my views on early cinemas and their qualities. It is on the top of my most favourite movies now. Truly, a thing of beauty is a joy forever ❤️

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Goodness, you might want to invest in watching more movies then that of which are cherry picked. Plenty, plenty of movies, I think Stowaway is a fantastic one (1936), it was color in cinema too. Cinecolor which was popular in the early 1930s. As they say, the model T was not the only vehicle in the 1920s.

[@itachigothenachi8425]

Nigga I watched the movie so I don't read the book 😅

[@bestdisco1979]

The the film Rebecca , darker than this but brilliant. Alfred Hitchcock starring Joan Fontaine. Also Ladies of retirement is brilliant.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@bestdisco1979 Oh a wicked film, I felt so bad for her, its ironic even so that the title of the movie is about Rebecca instead of the no named wife.

[@rewannada340]

I have the original written play as a pdf, if you want it

[@death2pc]

Have known of this jewel for decades. Untouchable. Any other version fails. Everyone in this film was superb. Hiller and Howard simply off the Richter Scale. Geniuses!! Hiller CRUSHES me completely!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dancingtrout6719]

Seeing the other attempts make seeing this better, so they help Grandiose it.

[@marcjames3487]

Having seen all the adaptions, I found this little gem to to be the best and truest.

[@parulaegreet]

This is one of most beautiful movies I have seen! Wendy Hiller transforms herself from the flower girl, to the still insecure girl in the scene in which she visits Higgins' mother (one of the most hilarious scenes I have watched in a movie) to the smart, articulate woman in the last scenes of the movie. What a wonderful actor! This movie is also about education. I wished all poor girls in this world had the same luck as Eliza Doolittle in this movie.

[@buickmclean8163]

I wish all poor boys in this world had the same luck as Eliza Doolittle.

[@jaykay1053]

Is this more about love than money and luck?

[@winonamassingill7895]

Old joke about the comment that it looks like rain: “Yes, but it’s really coffee ☕️ “. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@keithgarden5840]

@@buickmclean8163 n

[@Medietos]

@@buickmclean8163 Boys generally have/ had it easier than girls. Get more attention as children, get to move more and play with boy groups=> get strong bodies and practice social skills for later work settings, less sensitive and better at restraining strong emotions. Bodily, they are more centered, grounded or incarnated, which makes for greater self-confidence and stability. parulaegreet made no mistake, even though boys have their difficulties too of course. And only because she expresses good wishes for girls doesn't mean she doesn't for boys. Anyway, the film does not show typical characters: Prof Higgins is freer a spirit and not wing-clipped by limiting paradigm and convention and is too unpolished socially, and Eliza is uncommonly self-confident, despite her emotionally dysfunctional background. But then, it doesn't have to be entirely realistic to have many good points and be a great story and film. Without Colonel Pickering though, she wouldn't have succeeded that well that quickly or at all. One can see how insecure and nervous Prof Higgins personality and treatment makes her feel, whereas Cl Pick helps her get the necessary relaxation and calm needed to learn and excel.

[@maaidakausar9802]

Leslie was and is the ultimate genius legend in acting world

[@nancyfernandes367]

Now that I have a few of his movies, indeed he is the ultimate genius legend in acting world. So is our Laurence Olivier. I just love both of them.

[@davidgeorge5909]

Leslie Howard was one of the best of the early cinema. A great one I hadn't seen in decades! My Fair Lady is very good, but comes in second.

[@MrVvulf]

I think the reason Pygmalion is superior is because of the casting (and witty screenplay writing). As much as I like Rex Harrison, he really can't pull off a role where he's supposed to come off as uncaring, while Leslie Howard does "clinical" very well. Also, did anyone actually find Audrey Hepburn believable as a "guttersnipe"? "My Fair Lady" may have won 8 Academy Awards, but "Pygmalion" is a better production.

[@claudiapagliara7667]

No way.

[@kabardinka1]

@@MrVvulf Hepburn was totally miscast (but she did her best). Harrison was both too old for Higgins, too tanned and too one-note... always bellowing but doesn't have any of the charm, sarcastic wit and credible narcissism Howard has... not to mention Leslie Howard is incredibly attractive in this film no matter how obnoxious his character. Wilfrid Lawson is more believable as Dolittle than Stanley Holloway, who's cute but, again, too old. Marie Lohr is glowing as Higgin's mum. Then there's the Embassy scene... Hiller is stunning... far more striking than Hepburn, and it's a more amazing transformation from her flower girl self. I love the songs in My Fair Lady but the film is really quite leaden and overblown (the entire Ascot scene isn't nearly as good as Pygmalion's tea scene). Pygmalion really holds up much better than My Fair Lady.

[@MrVvulf]

@@kabardinka1 Agreed. My Fair Lady is fun, but G.B. Shaw would not have liked it. In a postscript to Pygmalion, Shaw wrote about what really happened to Eliza. After leaving Higgins, she opened a flower shop. She married a nice man. They struggled some, but ultimately did all right. She even dropped in on Higgins from time to time, but she never, ever loved him.

[@melianna999]

@@MrVvulf I love My Fair Lady

[@sierramike5259]

Silly me...i am 67 yrs old and never knew that My Fair Lady was a remake of a classic movie...fantastic

[@glenndespres5317]

Oh, I am getting schooled right here! As Johnny Carson would say, “ I did NOT know that!”

[@hans-dieterjung4026]

Me to with 69

[@mandywhittles]

It is a play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1912, then adapted into a movie, then adapted into a Broadway musical as My Fair Lady in 1956, then as a musical film in 1964.

[@sierramike5259]

@@mandywhittles thanks for the info ( I didn't know)....Leslie Howard is one of my favorite actors of that era ...."The Petrified Forest" being at the top of my list.

[@youngsteph1]

If you look at films through the ages long enough, you will find little is original.

[@AA-hy6nb]

In order to appeal "to the majority of the spectators", moviemakers always tried to change the original end of the play,- which was also perfectly happy! Ms. Doolittle became an independent strong young lady, which made sense, since all the play is about two things: dignity&education. And for the people, who had doubts about the end of the play, G.B. Shaw has written a special explanation: Eliza has got married to the noble Freddy Eynsford Hill, and Colonel Pickering gave them money to start own business, so they could support themselves. Freddy loved Eliza, and they lived happily ever after.

[@denvan3143]

I think Shaw’s separate epilogue to _Pygmaluon_ could be developed into an excellent miniseries. And the title would, of course, be _Galatea._

[@Medietos]

Sorry for Freddy then, because he deserves some ease and real love too, where Eliza mostly leads him on in order to escape her broken self-confidence and pride, as well as to punish and make prof Higgins jealous, or show she manages without him and his approval. Freddy needs a woman -or therapist first -who helps him heal his people-pleasing insecurity and gain self-confidence and independence. Although he does show some independence in appreciating her ways at the reception, where the others are inhibited and bewildered.

[@epaddon]

And I'm glad Alan Jay Lerner thought otherwise (and shame on the recent Brodway revival for soiling the masterpiece of that great musical)

[@johnwalker-kl6pl]

@@denvan3143 thank goodness for that. The horrible arrogance of the Prof sickened me !

[@robfriedrich2822]

And Henry Higgins simply said "she's marry Freddy"

[@itstuff4744]

Wendy Hiller, was one of the greatest actresses of all time, that’s my humble opinion, of course.

[@ravikukreja7211]

I'm 58, and have always loved My fair lady since I was a teenager. I was aware the source was Pygmalion and much to my delight I have found the full 1938 original version free on youtube. Popcorn time for me! :-) Simply adore these. And the musical score is still amongst the best!

[@arilemmke5166]

Nearing sixty and have seen My Fair Lady maybe hundred+ times. Knew what it was based of but did not know about this movie. What a pleasant surprise!

[@lauradohrtv]

O no, Hepburn never be as good actress, but she is beautiful

[@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st]

I saw this when I was young and then later on My Fair Lady - which I really did not like so much - I felt Rex Harrison never showed proper respect or deference to Eliza where as Leslie Howard finally relents his stoic nature and shows humanity

[@butziporsche8646]

Hiller was awesome in The Elephant Man. Leslie Howard died too young. Most people think of him as the milquetoast Ashley Wilkes but he'll always be The Scarlet Pimpernel to me. He was a great actor.

[@jayswaminarayan7089]

Who is Indian and specialy student of English literature ❤️❤️

[@skyisthelimit6434]

Me

[@lakshmipriya38657]

Me too

[@KingsDaughter1957]

Just delightful! Excellent movie! Who knew the long-suffering "Ashley Wilkes" could be funny before "Gone With the Wind"? Who knew Dame Wendy was such a pretty "gill" in her youth? You see, the first time I "met" Miss Hiller, she was already in her mid-70's playing a wealthy and lonely old rich woman in "Anne of Green Gables, the Sequel," so to now see her in her introductory role at age 25 is quite special. Highly recommended ... in BOTH roles! As they say, they don't make 'em like this anymore.

[@ladydianepoet]

Oh, you've got to look for more Leslie Howard movies, especially the Scarlet Pimpernel and Mr. "Pimpernel" Smith - he displays all his amazing talent! And depth of his true personal moral compass. A true hero!

[@KingsDaughter1957]

@@ladydianepoet Thank you for telling me about Scarlett Pimpernel ... I just watched it and finished with a smile :)

[@user-jl7ym4en5b]

Leslie Howard, what an incredibly talented actor. To think we lost him so young, at aged 50. His poor family. And to fathom the long career & number of Oscar worthy performances that were ahead of him. RIP to a great one.

[@micheleandhenrycasavant386]

Oh yes so agree with ya lol. This might sound weird but when I was introduced to Howard's films via mom as a ten year old I dreamed of marrying him I was so smittened. lol

[@pepelemoko01]

Long before 9/11, JFK and faked moon landing, there is the controversy over Leslie Howard's death.

[@dancingtrout6719]

Leslie suggested bogart for the role of a gangster in the movie the petrified forest and that kick started bogarts film career and then bogart named his daughter Leslie after Leslie Howard...

[@pepelemoko01]

@@dancingtrout6719 I don't know but I only think of his son Stephen,even though I read a biography about him.

[@annastinehammersdottir1290]

@@micheleandhenrycasavant386 Are you from the Québec pipe organ family?

[@timgega5930]

What an excellent movie. This flick should be shown to every middle school class on the planet. Perhaps we could all learn the Pygmalion Method and start behaving better to each other.

[@4GreaterWorldPeace]

What a wonderful idea! 1💜

[@mariapiade-rozza6749]

The best version.. The actors look natural people . Actors like them are so incredible. I like a lots Thank you

[@Yverian]

God how I wish i could find love as Higgins and Doolittle did. The film is about two crazily opposite people finding one another in a most peculiar manner and under the most incredbile circumstances. It is a true diamond in a sea of cubic zirconia.

[@gisawslonim9716]

Oh how marvelous to see this gorgeous film again. Incredible acting. Such class...bliss. Thank you so much for posting this gem.

[@alcoholfree6381]

58:00 Miss Doolittle, absolutely charming. The entire party watches her dance, she is adorable to me! Great movie; wonderful story line, acting and action. Endless fun. Thanks!

[@happyexpat3744]

Even without the music we all associate with this story, it is the story, itself, which is marvelous and Wendy Hiller, astonishing as she is beautiful and an amazing actress. GB Shaw's writing shall be remembered for so many things, but for especially this story., taken from an ancient Greek one and so on and so on.

[@robfriedrich2822]

The music let look all characters not very confident. Henry Higgins needs 3 minutes and many arguments, to justify his bachelor status and why it is better to keep it.

[@lindamcdermott2205]

Wow! I would not have believed anyone could be as good as Rex Harrison! Well done! Thanks for posting. Leslie Howard very fine acting. Mrs. Pierce, Alfred P. Doolittle, the other professor...everybody! Delightful!

[@robfriedrich2822]

I notice as main difference to My Fair Lady, that here Henry Higgins is more confident, not taking three minutes to confess himself and others about being bachelor. At least the story also works in an environment, where the cabs hasn't literal horsepower and the recording machines microphones and electronical amplification.

[@CatCat-ox7nv]

No one ( though I love Rex) can do this as Leslie, plus it’s just… eat more classy, full of wit and I love the tinges of love hints. Marvelous!

[@carolenewman5180]

Lovely Wendy Hiller and the incomparable Leslie Howard.

[@thomasdonio2129]

I always enjoy viewing this film. The acting is impeccable. Leslie Howard is a consummate Henry Higgins, and Wendy Hiller is a most perfect Eliza Dolittle--a true Shavian heroine.

[@maggieb369]

I like this version better than my fair lady. It has more charm and authenticity.

[@emamuddinrahmani931]

I'm from India ., today I was reading G. B. Shaw for the purpose,of cracking NET exam, suddenly my eyes consisted on PYGMALION and i shocked knowing that for it Shaw was awarded both the NOBEL Prize in literature and OSCAR for his work on the film adaptation of his plays pygmalion, I couldn't stop my fingers searching this film from the KZbin treasury, and my curious mind satisfied seeing it. Too good movie.

[@keithbird8910]

"Walk? Not bloody likely!" - excellent 😄

[@poetcomic1]

"We want none of that slum prudery of yours, you're going to have to learn how to behave like a duchess." Shaw at his most delicious!

[@janetstanfield7053]

I absolutely loved the film. I've never seen it before. Wonderful acting.

[@zuripetr6007]

do you maybe know what the bird signified at 11:40 ? henry said ''a reminder''

[@zuripetr6007]

@thequrratulain oh! thank you so much :)

[@wyominghome4857]

Wendy Hiller was wonderful. Her film "I know where I'm going" is a classic.

[@poetcomic1]

I've seen it a half dozen times.

[@Rishi2015]

Brilliant. What a storytelling. Beats many modern day firms. Great acting. Everything is so good.

[@AbdullahLodhi_]

The Point is: Higgins was also in love with Eliza secretly. But he didn’t express his feeling to her. I can feel him and understand him bcz i and Higgins have same nature. And i think its okay. Hats off Higgins

[@robfriedrich2822]

Shaw wasn't happy with the happy end, he preferred, that Eliza says finally, she would marry Freddie Hill. Some additions says, that she got the flower shop, but couldn't run it. Possibly it would have been the best end, when she had married Henry and also taught phonetics, maybe the first lessons, so both could have way more customers.

[@malaklifestyle702]

I love this movie so much also in Egypt we take this movie in my school as a drama and after I had watched this film the drama in my school become more easier so thank you so much

[@eltuhamyy]

same!! i have it as a play in the christmas assembly

[@MohamedAlaa_729]

U r in the 11th grade in a language school ... right ?!

[@malaklifestyle702]

@@MohamedAlaa_729 yes and the exam after some days 😩😂

[@MohamedAlaa_729]

@@malaklifestyle702 mine is on this Thursday 😩

[@malaklifestyle702]

@@MohamedAlaa_729 no my exam will be on Monday 😭😭

[@leelachatterjee4610]

What an outstanding performance by Eliza!

[@coldragon2001]

Love this movie. It is indeed one of the great classics. I could not understand Howard's idol appeal after watching Gone with the Wind, but in this movie,his acting really sparkles. Leslie Howard at his finest. George Bernard Shaw also adopted his own play into a screenplay for this movie and won an Oscar in 1938. Shaw was the only individual who won both a Nobel prize (for Literature) and an Oscar.

[@lalaj5831]

I agree. Ashley Wilkes annoyed me but I loved Leslie Howard after I saw this and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

[@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st]

WIKI "At Shaw's insistence, she (Hiller) starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins".

[@boomklever100]

I'm pleased to see this Pygmalion 1938, a few years older than I am. I've a younger Pygmalion-My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn. I love these movies. Thanks!

[@user-eq4ht5zq1e]

Но Лесли Ховард мне больше нравится!

[@jazzysophie9943]

I so adore Leslie Howard. One of my favorite classic comedy's. For the life of me, I can't think of his lovely co-star's name. But, they were great together. I'm at that age......to old to be young and forgetful as a cabbage leaf. Thanks for the upload. Thank you.

[@Books_Makeup]

It's better than the remake. I love it.

[@annastinehammersdottir1290]

Excellent theatrical film production and holy heck what great acting chops from Howard and Hiller.

[@patriciaribaric3409]

I've passed over this movie many times. I'm so glad I finally watched it. It amazes me how my perception never grasped all the Kabbalistic hints that are in these old movies. It's very enlightening.

[@kerryhorwitz4093]

Kabalistic hints? What do you mean?

[@donnievance1942]

@@kerryhorwitz4093 "Kabbalistic hints"-- that was posted by a person who'd find "kabbalistic hints" if they watched a Donald Duck cartoon.

[@sukhbirdhillon2358]

The last scene where he is walking along the street is the embankment in London. It’s interesting to see how little traffic there was back then. Would love to have known it then. The traffic is so heavy now.

[@scfeng6883]

Pretty sure that's a set made to look like the embankment, because I don't think film technology back then was good enough to shoot outdoors.

[@harryroyle9137]

@@scfeng6883 The scene where Freddy and Eliza drive off with Higgins chasing after them was at first a set with back projection, then it cuts to Higgins walking along the real Embankment shot outdoors. Most films were easily shot outdoors (e.g. Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others) from the beginning of moving pictures. There was no need to wait for film technology to be "good enough".

[@priyamarimuthu3698]

Enjoyed the apt depiction of the play by Bernard Shaw. Leslie Howard has played the role in a classy manner .

[@poetcomic1]

Shaw actually LOVED the movie! He was really picky about his work being filmed.

[@MichaelCarmichael]

A great work of art becomes a timeless masterpiece. George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion fits that description perfectly. This play and film portrays the plight of women in a world dominated by men. In our times, as women rise to new heights, this film inspires the hearts and minds of many, women and men alike.

[@domainofthesun4400]

yes Liza is treated like a piece of meat by both her pimp father and the inhuman Higgins

[@goedelite]

No. I disagree. The play by Shaw and the film are concerned about class not gender. Eliza is held back by her class. She reveals her class through her speech, as Professor Higgins shows, when he transforms her into a presumptive princess by changing it. Though nothing else about her has changed, she is suddenly a lady, a highborn lady. Higgins has changed her life. He has to take responsibility for what he has done, and he happily does!

[@patriciaribaric3409]

Hmmm I saw it much differently. Clearly Eliza and Higgin's mother were the dominant ones who artfully orchestrated the desired outcome. When women unite men have no power over them.

[@christopherbellore3511]

This movie knocked my socks off! I was thoroughly impressed with the entire storyline, acting, chemistry, everything! Captains Courageous has always been my all time favorite movie/story (by Rudyard Kipling), up until NOW. This little gem of a master piece is giving my all time favorite, a run for its money.

[@poetcomic1]

The first scene at Higgins' mother's house is a comedy classic I never tire of it.

[@potita24]

“I’ve taught scores of American millionairesses to speak English.” Lol That was hilarious!

[@platannapipidae9621]

i watched part of this film in my english classes several years ago. i'm glad i have found it today.

[@rontrecker8822]

This is a much better version of Pygmalion than the newer versions with Rex Harrison and Peter O’ Tool. Probably when this version was made the studio could a more lavish production.

[@AnuradhaSharma2601]

Wow Wow, no words ! A masterpiece. The acting was amazing and the dialogues were delivered perfectly. I was watching it for academic purpose but ended up really enjoying it. The comic elements in this play were just cherry on top. Outstanding and beautiful.😍 G.B. Shaw's immortal masterpiece..👏

[@shaharazon2449]

I was Lucky to see Peter Otoole on Briadway in Pygmalian. .Amazing

[@VValkyrie]

Me too! Got his autograph but lost it in hurricane Katrina

[@hudsonbailey674]

Thank you, All Time Classic Movies, this is a true classic.

[@spmauzy]

This is a wonderful movie. I prefer this an infinite amount over My Fair Lady

[@annawan2518]

Love both movies.

[@ShawDAMAN]

@@annawan2518 same like them both for different reasons. Sometimes I'd like to see the story without stopping for song and dance numbers lol. Howard and Hiller were both excellent in this

[@annawan2518]

@@ShawDAMAN 😊😁👍

[@steveweinstein3222]

My Fair Lady was based on this film version -- NOT GBS' original play.

[@mariann1982]

@@annawan2518 Same, but found this to be much moredeeper in showing feelings of the characters.

[@sakalaka4153]

A little fact: G. B. Shaw won a novel peace prize for literature for writing this play.

[@jagerin]

He also won the Academy Award for this movie as well. One of the only two people to win both the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award, the other being Bob Dylan.

[@combatantezoteric2965]

He supported mass genocide of the "undesirables"

[@sharonnorris7015]

Sakalaka Matahata No he didn't! The Nobel Prize is awarded for a body of literature, not just one work. Furthermore he was awarded the prize 12 years after this play was first produced.

[@sharonnorris7015]

@@7A54G8 See my comment above. The Nobel Prize is for a body of work, not just one. See details of his citation here: www.thoughtco.com/nobel-prize-in-literature-winners-4084778

[@domainofthesun4400]

@@combatantezoteric2965 are people still spreading that stupid rumor?

[@estheraguirre3807]

For the first time in 25 years I have come to the realisation that Pygmalion is the basic play by the Irish author Bernard Shaw, for the musical 'My Fair Lady' 31 years later !! If it wasn't for this movie I would have never known it!!!

[@melianna999]

wow

[@nemichand598]

Had studied the novel as a part of curriculum in school... But I must sincerely admit that the movie is much more attention grasping and resists the blink of an eye.... So good to see the characters being bought to life (surely it would have been picturized much before than I discovered) with alacrity of thoughts and sense of appeasement and amusement at the same time.... Hats off to The Great Bernard Shaw for writing such a masterpiece , an exemplary Act for the learners , praisers and entertainment seeking section of the mass.... But at the end I feel " the cockney is much cooler than the regular english"👍😊 "Ello to ya and me luv to ol"...

[@it2313]

It is a play, not a novel

[@nemichand598]

@@it2313 cool ..... Whatever @Tarau , doesn't matter..... As far as u liked it if u enjoyed it .... Its all good

[@melianna999]

I studied Pygmalion at school in my native language in 1973. Little did I know that I would fall in love in My Fair Lady in 1988 in Australia. in my english class.

[@butimar68]

I always loved my Fair Lady, but this one beats that version as story line. Leslie Howard was amazing, regardless I love Rex Harrison in his performance so much. I think story line, loyalty to it's splendid original is the biggest winner here. Then again, it was a success all together. I was happily surprised as I was expecting a worse version. Really loved it.

[@andrewcurrie1373]

As excellent as My Fair Lady was as a musical - both in its music and witty lyrics - I too was really surprised that this version was so well done. I would agree with you completely, it was a "success all together" - certainly better than what I was expecting.

[@dancingtrout6719]

Leslie suggested Bogart for the the Gangster Role in the movie The Petrified Forest and that kick started Bogy's Career and in turn Bogart Named His first Born Leslie❤

[@fatfrreddy1414]

GREAT actors. thanks.. poor old Howard died in a plane-crash.

[@harshmnr]

I can't believe this version is so underrated (I mean, it was popular in its time but seems to largely have been forgotten now) even when My Fair Lady is still quite well known and loved. I love comparing all the different versions of My Fair Lady/Pygmalion; I recently saw My Fair Lady on stage and it had some similarities and differences both with this movie and the 1964 movie. Either way I love this story for all the different ways it can be analyzed and interpreted. Great performances by all the actors! :) By the way, this is off-topic but I wanted to comment on the closed captions which were done by an organization for accessibility...but quite a few lines and words were actually completely missing from the subtitles. I don't know if that can be fixed and re-uploaded? ~:~

[@noelgarcia8309]

A true masterpiece that transcends the passage of time

[@jiznimore]

right

[@Just-a-name198]

Anyone else watching this for a assignment?✋

[@rindordrums]

So good to see an older version. Loved it!

[@philzmusic8098]

It's so funny to see how completely NOT a gentleman Higgins is. I'm not speaking of what a cad he is to Eliza, but the way he puts his feet on his mother's furniture, sits on the keys of her piano, swears in front of women, and wears his dressing gown to breakfast.

[@robfriedrich2822]

But he speaks best standard English. Later Eliza can say to Higgins, that she learned manners and so she could be a better teacher for lower class people that became rich.

[@christophermorgan3261]

Both this film and the 60's musical end ambiguously. Don't we want Higgins to be changed by Eliza? Brought low by Freddie jealousy. But he can't change and never will. Shaw was a cynic, an early "Feminist," what kind of man wants a women to fetch his slippers? That's ridiculous. Wendy Hiller with a phenomenal performance, a character actor, and just as regal as was Audrey Hepburn. Some are saying she isn't a classic beauty, but she brings greater depth than Audrey. That's a sign of beauty of soul, which she brings to the role. Wow, 1938, the next year launched the classics Gone With the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, etc. I prefer this in black and white. More emotion. Stage actors bring something special to the screen.

[@GeneRogers-lo1qy]

You didn’t get the ending! Wendy Hiller obviously changed as she was meant to change, but Leslie Howard’s part was not supposed to change outwardly. He tells her at the end “He’s grown accustomed to her”. That’s his own way of telling her as he is what he’s always been. A rather famous phonetics teacher and a confirmed bachelor (which in the end he really isn’t). He changed her outwardly which is obvious and she a woman shows her feelings. He on the other hand is not meant to change or show his change. But, if you really listen he has! He jealous, arrogant against her liking Freddy’s attention, mad that she left. There’s many of couples that don’t have to say they love their wife or girlfriend. Even today I see it in life. But, I can easily see Henry Higgins is hurt and jealous as she was the one who mostly changes outwardly as the original play. But, it’s plain to see they love each other. I felt it his reactions, responses without saying “I’m madly in love with you “. Remember in Pygmalion the woman was originally a statue. Love comes in many forms and is shown and spoken to many differently! I think we are naive at times and not really seeing or hearing as we expect.

[@user-gw3ln3pd8d]

Thank you for the uploading.l liked 1938 version most of all. The heroes are REAL people

[@rgmobiletech]

All thanks to G.B Show for this charming story of a poor young woman towards a highly mannered professor of phonetics. And thanks to the director for this wonderful work. And show the true affection of love

[@cathyshaw1227]

Leslie Howard just loved him, such a wonderful movie, Mr Howard Directed it too.

[@autodidact2499]

Co-directed it; Anthony Asquith was the other director.

[@nadiazayman779]

Wendy Hiller is an absolute delight!

[@lauradohrtv]

The best Pygmalion I've ever seen, Howard and Hiller superb performance, but really she fell in love with this selfish guy? Only man could write it :-)

[@imochiexe5056]

Ah, the wonder of great literature, great actors all, great acting, a great film and time well spent watching said film. God bless you for sharing and may the endeavors of your sponsors flourish.

[@marthabenner6528]

I watched this when I was a young girl, it had a great effect on my life.

[@melianna999]

which is?

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Apparently our scientific understanding of arachnids has come a long way.

[@LachezarFilchev]

Everyone is doing Leslie's justice but not a word for the actress who portray Eliza. She is the one who makes the movie.

[@GeneRogers-lo1qy]

Don’t worry I certainly fell in love with Wendy Hiller!

[@ashharijaywardena]

I'm positively smitten by this version! Thank you so much for sharing it!

[@queenlegitimate5015]

omg..the tea party at his mothers house had me roaring! lol so funny

[@poetcomic1]

"Walk? Not bloody likely I'm taking a TAXI!"

[@cansofswine126]

Thank you for uploading with subtitles!! ❤️💕❤️ Much love

[@johngalvin6010]

Hilarious! Hardly hable to hold my head in my hands. Frankenstein falls in love with his creation.

[@fimasobak2520]

The very best adaptation of a Pygmalion story!!!

[@moosound]

Anyone who really wants to know what the play is about should read the original. It was not a romantic comedy. Shaw was very interested in language, and wanted to create a phonetic spelling for English. Never quite got there, but used this play to show how it might be done. However, even with it's deviations from the original, it's still a good movie. I have enjoyed it several times.

[@rjlev]

Cinematic perfection......inspired by the masterful writing of GBS.....and the brilliant casting and performances.....

[@osori4690]

Perfect demonstration of the original play!

[@city3b]

Leslie Howard was nominated for two Oscars but never won, contrary to the above description. Wendy Hiller won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

[@SCBJQ]

I love this film. I've been a Leslie Howard fan since I was a kid. My favorite film of his is Five And Ten with Marion Davies. It bombed at the box office in 1931, but I love it. His films with Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage, The Petrified Forest and It's Love I'm After are great too. Olivia De Havilland was in the later one before doing Gone With The Wind together.

[@mikepalm6452]

One of my most favourite actors.....died too young......or was murdered.

[@itsthem5699]

One of my favorite*.

[@harryroyle9137]

Leslie Howard worked as a spy for the British Government during World War II. The Germans had realised this and so deliberately shot down the plan he was flying in, resulting in his early death.

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

"Pygmalion" was also adapted into a play for cable tv..which featured:Peter O'Toole and Margot Kidder.

[@espenbjerke1905]

This is 1000x times better than My Fair Lady

[@prinspray]

Not really

[@melianna999]

disagree

[@terencedove5047]

For this being only her second appearance on film, Wendy Hiller’s regal performance during the ambassador’s reception in this 1938 gem can not only be favorably compared with Audrey Hepburn’s in the 1964 film musical; but it may also serve to explain why Hiller won an Academy Award nomination for her overall performance in this film. Audrey’s not being naturally English as Wendy was may have counted against her; for surely she had deserved an Oscar nod for her same performance…

[@cgpyper7536]

Leslie Howard playing an overbearing, self-centered, abusive character??!! 'Never would have thought of it. Wendy Hiller captivated with her outward aplomb; indicating deep inward beauty. Until this viewing, My Fair Lady was all I knew of motion picture versions of the story ... which is one of my favorites, even in view of two very irritating scenes; Higgins and Pickering laughing it up after Liza's embassy success (all three should have been celebrating and congratulating Liza); Higgins' "Liza where are my slippers" comment at the end; big let-downs, both. Thank you for posting A.T.C.M.

[@GeneRogers-lo1qy]

That was Higgin’s way and nature of without saying he loved and needed Eliza. Eliza’s transformation was obviously seen as it’s about her transformation, but inwardly it’s also about Higgins transformation inwardly.

[@sunithanair3412]

Most enjoyable....spirit, impeccable characterisation..and humour and of course, middle class morality ...where all are welcome! With help from the Higgins-Pickering duo!

[@josephinepeery6938]

Wonderful story ❤ I remember playing her character in a school play and getting that awful screeching sound was not as easy as it appeared 😏 Thank you for the memories 👏

[@annip5573]

Two of the best British actors: Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller

[@Kpink744]

Agree 💯

[@nancyfernandes367]

And Laurence Olivier.

[@aestroai8012]

This is phenomenal. It's interesting to see this after years of watching My Fair Lady. I still have trouble seeing Eliza as a "girl". They treat her like she's 10. It's odd that she doesn't want to disrobe and have a bath.

[@autodidact2499]

The poor everywhere sleep in the clothes they always wear, including in the poorest parts of America.

[@kevinmichaelcallihansr5053]

Cultivation and improvement of the mind in Athens, Appalachia! A classic in every sense of the way.

[@AC-ih7jc]

My understanding was that Wendy Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's personal choice for the role of Eliza Doolittle.

[@marquitaarmstrong399]

Thank you

[@YiannisPho]

Wonderful! It surpasses My Fair Lady in charm.

[@shirleysavitts9647]

Thank you for posting this delightful, well acted movie. I first saw Leslie Howard in "OF Human Bondage" with Bette Davis, her first role of her own, I believe. I found the very old VHS in a second hand shop, and got it due to it having Bette in it. I could not get over his role with the crippled foot, and his eyes and face reflected all he was thinking without saying, throughout the movie. Upon seeing other scripts he had played, he was an owner of the role given to him, and added his own to it. Is Ronald Howard related to him, I now wonder. I loved this as much as I did Rex and Audreys musical rendition. It was so sad to hear how he and others were killed in that plane., what a loss. Thank you again.

[@shirleysavitts9647]

Just found Pimpernel Smith with Leslie Howard. Going to have a peek, got the grapes, Tillamook cheese and apple cider. :D

[@guntherpfunfnagel2183]

Ronald Howard was Leslie Howard's son.

[@monicarapp1521]

I'm so glad Shaw agreed to change the ending and make Eliza & Professor Higgins end up together. Of course Shaw didn't like it because he was an antiromantic, but it's what everybody wanted, and I'm sure he was glad to get

[@patrickryan1515]

Excellent template to which Audrey Hepburn added just the right amount of MAGIC. Both "My Fair Lady" and this are most exquisitely appealing.