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1) Pygmalion
Author
Language
English
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Description
George Bernard Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in...
4) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
5) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
6) Pygmalion
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
7) My fair lady
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
A professor takes a wager to turn a London flower girl into someone presentable in high society.
Special features: British premiere featurette; Rex Harison BFI honor; More loverly than ever: The making of My Fair Lady then & now; photo galleries; Comments on a lady; Rex harrison Golden Globe acceptance speech; Academy Awards highlights; interview Martin Scorsese; alternate Audrey Heopburn vocals; production tests; Los Angeles premier; 1963 production...
8) Pygmalion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A cranky professor takes a bet that he can turn flower-seller Eliza Doolittle into a 'proper lady' in no time.
9) Pygmalion
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.
10) Pygmalion: DVD
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Professor Higgins succeeds in transforming an unkempt London flower girl into a society belle.
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