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Pygmalion Overview:

Pygmalion (1938) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard and produced by Gabriel Pascal.

Academy Awards 1938 --- Ceremony Number 11 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActorLeslie HowardNominated
Best ActressWendy HillerNominated
Best WritingScreenplay and Dialogue by George Bernard Shaw; Adaptation by W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian DalryWon
Best PictureMetro-Goldwyn-MayerNominated
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Pygmalion BlogHub Articles:

Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller

By Greg Orypeck on Feb 19, 2014 From Classic Film Freak

Share This!“I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.” —— Eliza Doolittle The 1964 film musical version of George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play, now retitled My Fair Lady and, some say, the most anticipated film since Gone With the Wind, earned many headlines and captured much attention ... Read full article

Pygmalion (1938)

By Beatrice on Nov 29, 2013 From Flickers in Time

Pygmalion Directed by Anthony Asquith Written by George Bernard Shaw 1938/UK Gabriel Pascal Productions Repeat viewing This may be the best adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play.  I love this film! Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) bets that he can pass Cockney flower seller Eliz... Read full article

Pygmalion

By Alyson on Dec 21, 2010 From The Best Picture Project

In the first month of this blog, I watched My Fair Lady, the musical remake of Pygmalion, for the first time in my life and simply ripped that film a new one.  I still stand behind what I said, but realize now that all I needed to enjoy the same story was less flamboyant actors and no musical inter... Read full article

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Pygmalion Quotes:

Eliza Doolittle: I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.
Professor Henry Higgins: Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?
Eliza Doolittle: Walk? Not bloody likely. I'm going to take a taxi.
[repeated line]
Eliza Doolittle: I'm a good girl, I am!
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Pygmalion Facts
Although he expressed indifference to the Academy Award he won for writing this movie, his friend Mary Pickford reported that George Bernard Shaw proudly displayed his Oscar in his home, and showed it off to his visitors.
The new character that George Bernard Shaw wrote for the ball scene - the Hungarian Karpathy - was modeled on producer Gabriel Pascal
When Shaw died in 1950, his home in Ayot St Lawrence became a museum. One of the artefacts in it is his Oscar, which initially had become so tarnished that the curator assumed it had no value and had been using it as a door stop. That situation has since been rectified.
The property buyer is manning one of the market stalls at the beginning - Baden Siddall.
George Bernard Shaw had previously rejected an offer from Samuel Goldwyn for the screen rights to his plays. He was more impressed with Gabriel Pascal's integrity as a producer, thus beginning a partnership that yielded adaptations of Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra and Androcles and the Lion.
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