Movie · 96 min
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.
Chart positions today
Currently charting in 1 countries, best placed at #460 in Guatemala.
- Guatemala #460
Cast
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, Jean Cadell, David Tree, Everley Gregg, Leueen MacGrath, Esme Percy, Violet Vanbrugh, Irene Browne, Kate Cutler, O.B. Clarence, Ivor Barnard, Cecil Trouncer, Iris Hoey, Viola Tree
Crew
Leslie Howard (director), Anthony Asquith (director), George Bernard Shaw (screenplay), Ian Dalrymple (writer), Gabriel Pascal (producer)
Awards
1 wins from 5 nominations.
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay 1939 — won
- Academy Award for Best Actress 1939 — nominated
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay 1939 — nominated
- Academy Award for Best Picture 1939 — nominated
- Academy Award for Best Actor 1939 — nominated