Pygmalion (1938)
"He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!"
ThumbScore
👍 84%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 94%
(RT: 94%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins
Wilfrid Lawson as Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr as Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland as Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell as Mrs. Pearce
David Tree as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Everley Gregg as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Is Pygmalion good?
Most people think so. 84% audience score, estimated from 167 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 94%.
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. Wikipedia ↗
