Pygmalion [25016] Released: 1939-03-03 Revenue: $0 Budget: $350,000 Profit: $-350,000 Runtime: 96 mins Popularity: 3.7873 Vote Average: 6.993 Vote Count: 144 Overview: 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. Cast [29] Leslie HowardHenry Higgins Wendy HillerEliza Doolittle Wilfrid LawsonAlfred Doolittle Marie LohrMrs. Higgins Scott SunderlandColonel George P Jean CadellMrs. Pearce David TreeFreddy Eynsford- Everley GreggMrs. Eynsford-Hi Leueen MacGrathClara Eynsford-H Esme PercyCount Aristid Ka Violet VanbrughAmbassadress Irene BrowneDuchess Kate CutlerGrand Old Lady O.B. ClarenceMr. Birchwood Ivor BarnardSarcastic Bystan Cecil TrouncerFirst Policeman Iris HoeyYsabel Viola TreePerfide Cathleen NesbittA Lady Wally PatchFirst Bystander H.F. MaltbySecond Bystander George MozartThird Bystander Stephen MurraySecond Policeman Eileen BeldonMrs. Higgin's Pa Frank AtkinsonTaxi-Driver Anthony QuayleEliza's Hairdres Leo GennPrince Moyna MacGillWoman Bystander Patrick MacneeExtra Trailers Pygmalion 1938 - "Not bloody likely - I'm going in a taxi"