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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… Read more
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Thu · 1h 36m
Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Starring: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
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.
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson