Pygmalion
1939 · 96 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 10,019 VOTES · DIR. Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,417 lines
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00:02:57 So long, ducks. See you in Piccadilly.
00:07:36 Oh, but I meant no harm.
00:10:43 Woman, cease this detestable boohooing instantly.
00:15:16 Amazing.
00:18:23 It's handsome, enormous. It's the biggest offer I've ever had.
00:21:19 I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too ladylike to take it out of me mouth.
00:25:12 she becomes jealous, exacting, and a confounded nuisance.
00:28:33 Now look here, guvnor. Is this reasonable? Is it fairity?
00:31:47 As a matter of morals, it's a positive crime to give this chap a farthing
00:34:57 No, guvnor, not me.
00:38:45 I don't remember asking her.
00:42:50 Hampshire, Hereford and Hartford
00:46:48 - Good-bye, Colonel Pickering. - Good-bye, Miss Doolittle.
00:50:31 - Your Worship. - No.!
00:55:03 Miss Elizabeth Doolittle, Colonel Pickering
01:00:37 When he gives the game away to the ambassadress, there'll be the deuce of a row.
01:05:53 Take your slippers! And may you never have a day's luck with them!
01:09:44 Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else.
01:14:37 - This isn't Paris, you know. - No. Sorry, Constable.
01:19:33 - Thank you, ma'am. - What has my son done to you?
01:23:11 because he always treats me as a flower girl and always will.
01:26:22 About you, not about me.
01:29:51 Not forgetting the difference between us...
01:35:02 Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?
Cast & Characters
Leslie Howard
Professor Henry Higgins
Wendy Hiller
Eliza Doolittle
Wilfrid Lawson
Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland
Colonel Pickering
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Pearce
David Tree
Freddy Eynsford Hill
Everley Gregg
Mrs. Eynsford Hill
Leueen MacGrath
Clara Eynsford Hill
Esme Percy
Count Aristid Karpathy
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,417
Dialogue density14.8 lines / min
First line00:02:57
Final line01:35:02
Production Record
DirectorAnthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
LanguageEnglish
Budget$350,000
IMDb votes10,019