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Pygmalion (1983) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1983 · 109 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Alan Cooke
- Starring
- Peter O'Toole, Margot Kidder, Shelagh McLeod, John Standing, Frances Hyland, Ron White
When professor Henry Higgins boasts he can turn Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady indistinguishable from a princess in six months, Colonel Pickering bets on him. Eliza moves into Higgins’s home after he reaches a deal with her dustman father, Alfred, and begins intensive speech lessons. The experiment challenges Higgins’s prejudices.
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