UK,
1938, 96 min
Cinematography:
Harry Stradling Sr.Composer:
Arthur HoneggerCast:
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Patrick Macnee, Anthony Quayle, Leo Genn, Jean Cadell, Irene Browne, Cathleen Nesbitt, Hans Richter (more)Plots(1)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) as a princess with only six months’ training, Colonel George Pickering (Scott Sunderland) 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 (Wilfrid Lawson). But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation. (Bounty Films)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 1939 - Cecil Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, W.P. Lipscomb (Best Adapted Screenplay)
- 1939 - Best Motion Picture of the Year
- 1939 - Leslie Howard (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role)
- 1939 - Wendy Hiller (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 1938 - Wendy Hiller (Best Actress)
Venice Film Festival
- 1938 - Leslie Howard (Volpi Cup for Best Actor)
- 1938 - Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard (Mussolini Cup)