Released:
1938-10-06

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.

Directors:
Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith

Runtime:
1h 36min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Leslie Howard
  as
  Henry Higgins
• 
  Wendy Hiller
  as
  Eliza Doolittle
• 
  Wilfrid Lawson
  as
  Alfred Doolittle
• 
  Marie Lohr
  as
  Mrs. Higgins
• 
  Scott Sunderland
  as
  Colonel George Pickering