@@wyominghome4857 Higgins denies your point. He threw Eliza‘s refined behavior in her face as though it was merely what he had taught her, as though behavior is not something that is learned but inherent. Pickering treated Eliza as a lady from the beginning.
Julie was too beautiful for cockney Eliza ( she’d have trouble being a “good girl”). Audrey was way too skinny. Men didn’t think that look was attractive until the 1960s. Wendy was unattractive is the beginning and so regal at the ball.
Such a beautiful movie! As a student of English literature I hope to read the original play in near future. This flawless adaptation changed my views on early cinemas and their qualities. It is on the top of my most favourite movies now. Truly, a thing of beauty is a joy forever ❤️
Goodness, you might want to invest in watching more movies then that of which are cherry picked. Plenty, plenty of movies, I think Stowaway is a fantastic one (1936), it was color in cinema too. Cinecolor which was popular in the early 1930s. As they say, the model T was not the only vehicle in the 1920s.
This is one of most beautiful movies I have seen! Wendy Hiller transforms herself from the flower girl, to the still insecure girl in the scene in which she visits Higgins' mother (one of the most hilarious scenes I have watched in a movie) to the smart, articulate woman in the last scenes of the movie. What a wonderful actor! This movie is also about education. I wished all poor girls in this world had the same luck as Eliza Doolittle in this movie.
This movie is also (very much) about self-improvement, and taking INITIATIVE - a topic close to Shaw's heart. Eliza ***took note of Higgins' address, ***spent her silver on a taxi to get there, ***got into his house (no mean feat!), and ***offered to pay for "lessons" (even haggling assertively over the price, lol). Note that she told Higgins that ***she would go to his competitors for lessons if he didn't give her a fair shake, lol. Shaw had quite a bit to say about initiative and self-improvement, and Pygmalion may be his best treatise on the subject! Just sayin! :-) Love to All
Have known of this jewel for decades. Untouchable. Any other version fails. Everyone in this film was superb. Hiller and Howard simply off the Richter Scale. Geniuses!! Hiller CRUSHES me completely!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 58, and have always loved My fair lady since I was a teenager. I was aware the source was Pygmalion and much to my delight I have found the full 1938 original version free on youtube. Popcorn time for me! :-) Simply adore these. And the musical score is still amongst the best!
I saw this when I was young and then later on My Fair Lady - which I really did not like so much - I felt Rex Harrison never showed proper respect or deference to Eliza where as Leslie Howard finally relents his stoic nature and shows humanity
I think the reason Pygmalion is superior is because of the casting (and witty screenplay writing). As much as I like Rex Harrison, he really can't pull off a role where he's supposed to come off as uncaring, while Leslie Howard does "clinical" very well. Also, did anyone actually find Audrey Hepburn believable as a "guttersnipe"? "My Fair Lady" may have won 8 Academy Awards, but "Pygmalion" is a better production.
@@MrVvulf Hepburn was totally miscast (but she did her best). Harrison was both too old for Higgins, too tanned and too one-note... always bellowing but doesn't have any of the charm, sarcastic wit and credible narcissism Howard has... not to mention Leslie Howard is incredibly attractive in this film no matter how obnoxious his character. Wilfrid Lawson is more believable as Dolittle than Stanley Holloway, who's cute but, again, too old. Marie Lohr is glowing as Higgin's mum. Then there's the Embassy scene... Hiller is stunning... far more striking than Hepburn, and it's a more amazing transformation from her flower girl self. I love the songs in My Fair Lady but the film is really quite leaden and overblown (the entire Ascot scene isn't nearly as good as Pygmalion's tea scene). Pygmalion really holds up much better than My Fair Lady.
@@PalacinkyPDX Agreed. My Fair Lady is fun, but G.B. Shaw would not have liked it. In a postscript to Pygmalion, Shaw wrote about what really happened to Eliza. After leaving Higgins, she opened a flower shop. She married a nice man. They struggled some, but ultimately did all right. She even dropped in on Higgins from time to time, but she never, ever loved him.
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@@MrVvulf WOW! I had never heard that. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the info!
Just delightful! Excellent movie! Who knew the long-suffering "Ashley Wilkes" could be funny before "Gone With the Wind"? Who knew Dame Wendy was such a pretty "gill" in her youth? You see, the first time I "met" Miss Hiller, she was already in her mid-70's playing a wealthy and lonely old rich woman in "Anne of Green Gables, the Sequel," so to now see her in her introductory role at age 25 is quite special. Highly recommended ... in BOTH roles! As they say, they don't make 'em like this anymore.
Oh, you've got to look for more Leslie Howard movies, especially the Scarlet Pimpernel and Mr. "Pimpernel" Smith - he displays all his amazing talent! And depth of his true personal moral compass. A true hero!
Wow! I would not have believed anyone could be as good as Rex Harrison! Well done! Thanks for posting. Leslie Howard very fine acting. Mrs. Pierce, Alfred P. Doolittle, the other professor...everybody! Delightful!
I notice as main difference to My Fair Lady, that here Henry Higgins is more confident, not taking three minutes to confess himself and others about being bachelor. At least the story also works in an environment, where the cabs hasn't literal horsepower and the recording machines microphones and electronical amplification.
In order to appeal "to the majority of the spectators", moviemakers always tried to change the original end of the play,- which was also perfectly happy! Ms. Doolittle became an independent strong young lady, which made sense, since all the play is about two things: dignity&education. And for the people, who had doubts about the end of the play, G.B. Shaw has written a special explanation: Eliza has got married to the noble Freddy Eynsford Hill, and Colonel Pickering gave them money to start own business, so they could support themselves. Freddy loved Eliza, and they lived happily ever after.
Sorry for Freddy then, because he deserves some ease and real love too, where Eliza mostly leads him on in order to escape her broken self-confidence and pride, as well as to punish and make prof Higgins jealous, or show she manages without him and his approval. Freddy needs a woman -or therapist first -who helps him heal his people-pleasing insecurity and gain self-confidence and independence. Although he does show some independence in appreciating her ways at the reception, where the others are inhibited and bewildered.
Leslie Howard, what an incredibly talented actor. To think we lost him so young, at aged 50. His poor family. And to fathom the long career & number of Oscar worthy performances that were ahead of him. RIP to a great one.
Oh yes so agree with ya lol. This might sound weird but when I was introduced to Howard's films via mom as a ten year old I dreamed of marrying him I was so smittened. lol
Leslie suggested bogart for the role of a gangster in the movie the petrified forest and that kick started bogarts film career and then bogart named his daughter Leslie after Leslie Howard...
58:00 Miss Doolittle, absolutely charming. The entire party watches her dance, she is adorable to me! Great movie; wonderful story line, acting and action. Endless fun. Thanks!
It is a play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1912, then adapted into a movie, then adapted into a Broadway musical as My Fair Lady in 1956, then as a musical film in 1964.
@@mandboat thanks for the info ( I didn't know)....Leslie Howard is one of my favorite actors of that era ...."The Petrified Forest" being at the top of my list.
I love this movie so much also in Egypt we take this movie in my school as a drama and after I had watched this film the drama in my school become more easier so thank you so much
Even without the music we all associate with this story, it is the story, itself, which is marvelous and Wendy Hiller, astonishing as she is beautiful and an amazing actress. GB Shaw's writing shall be remembered for so many things, but for especially this story., taken from an ancient Greek one and so on and so on.
The music let look all characters not very confident. Henry Higgins needs 3 minutes and many arguments, to justify his bachelor status and why it is better to keep it.
I always enjoy viewing this film. The acting is impeccable. Leslie Howard is a consummate Henry Higgins, and Wendy Hiller is a most perfect Eliza Dolittle--a true Shavian heroine.
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Good point. :-) I always FORGET that the acting is impeccable - when it IS impeccable - BECAUSE it is impeccable!
I'm pleased to see this Pygmalion 1938, a few years older than I am. I've a younger Pygmalion-My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn. I love these movies. Thanks!
I agree, but my focus was My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn, i once again saw at home two weeks ago. To my opinion the best of the best. I love and still love this movies. Thanks!
Ah, the wonder of great literature, great actors all, great acting, a great film and time well spent watching said film. God bless you for sharing and may the endeavors of your sponsors flourish.
All thanks to G.B Show for this charming story of a poor young woman towards a highly mannered professor of phonetics. And thanks to the director for this wonderful work. And show the true affection of love
I've passed over this movie many times. I'm so glad I finally watched it. It amazes me how my perception never grasped all the Kabbalistic hints that are in these old movies. It's very enlightening.
This movie knocked my socks off! I was thoroughly impressed with the entire storyline, acting, chemistry, everything! Captains Courageous has always been my all time favorite movie/story (by Rudyard Kipling), up until NOW. This little gem of a master piece is giving my all time favorite, a run for its money.
I so adore Leslie Howard. One of my favorite classic comedy's. For the life of me, I can't think of his lovely co-star's name. But, they were great together. I'm at that age......to old to be young and forgetful as a cabbage leaf. Thanks for the upload. Thank you.
Love this movie. It is indeed one of the great classics. I could not understand Howard's idol appeal after watching Gone with the Wind, but in this movie,his acting really sparkles. Leslie Howard at his finest. George Bernard Shaw also adopted his own play into a screenplay for this movie and won an Oscar in 1938. Shaw was the only individual who won both a Nobel prize (for Literature) and an Oscar.
What a wonderful movie. Don't let the first couple minutes of semi-fuzzy picture put you off. It clears up quickly, and this movie is a gem, with laugh-out-loud moments. Thanks for the upload!
Wow Wow, no words ! A masterpiece. The acting was amazing and the dialogues were delivered perfectly. I was watching it for academic purpose but ended up really enjoying it. The comic elements in this play were just cherry on top. Outstanding and beautiful.😍 G.B. Shaw's immortal masterpiece..👏
I'm from India ., today I was reading G. B. Shaw for the purpose,of cracking NET exam, suddenly my eyes consisted on PYGMALION and i shocked knowing that for it Shaw was awarded both the NOBEL Prize in literature and OSCAR for his work on the film adaptation of his plays pygmalion, I couldn't stop my fingers searching this film from the UA-cam treasury, and my curious mind satisfied seeing it. Too good movie.
Had studied the novel as a part of curriculum in school... But I must sincerely admit that the movie is much more attention grasping and resists the blink of an eye.... So good to see the characters being bought to life (surely it would have been picturized much before than I discovered) with alacrity of thoughts and sense of appeasement and amusement at the same time.... Hats off to The Great Bernard Shaw for writing such a masterpiece , an exemplary Act for the learners , praisers and entertainment seeking section of the mass.... But at the end I feel " the cockney is much cooler than the regular english"👍😊 "Ello to ya and me luv to ol"...
I studied Pygmalion at school in my native language in 1973. Little did I know that I would fall in love in My Fair Lady in 1988 in Australia. in my english class.
Hiller was awesome in The Elephant Man. Leslie Howard died too young. Most people think of him as the milquetoast Ashley Wilkes but he'll always be The Scarlet Pimpernel to me. He was a great actor.
A great work of art becomes a timeless masterpiece. George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion fits that description perfectly. This play and film portrays the plight of women in a world dominated by men. In our times, as women rise to new heights, this film inspires the hearts and minds of many, women and men alike.
No. I disagree. The play by Shaw and the film are concerned about class not gender. Eliza is held back by her class. She reveals her class through her speech, as Professor Higgins shows, when he transforms her into a presumptive princess by changing it. Though nothing else about her has changed, she is suddenly a lady, a highborn lady. Higgins has changed her life. He has to take responsibility for what he has done, and he happily does!
Hmmm I saw it much differently. Clearly Eliza and Higgin's mother were the dominant ones who artfully orchestrated the desired outcome. When women unite men have no power over them.
Thank you for posting this delightful, well acted movie. I first saw Leslie Howard in "OF Human Bondage" with Bette Davis, her first role of her own, I believe. I found the very old VHS in a second hand shop, and got it due to it having Bette in it. I could not get over his role with the crippled foot, and his eyes and face reflected all he was thinking without saying, throughout the movie. Upon seeing other scripts he had played, he was an owner of the role given to him, and added his own to it. Is Ronald Howard related to him, I now wonder. I loved this as much as I did Rex and Audreys musical rendition. It was so sad to hear how he and others were killed in that plane., what a loss. Thank you again.
I can't believe this version is so underrated (I mean, it was popular in its time but seems to largely have been forgotten now) even when My Fair Lady is still quite well known and loved. I love comparing all the different versions of My Fair Lady/Pygmalion; I recently saw My Fair Lady on stage and it had some similarities and differences both with this movie and the 1964 movie. Either way I love this story for all the different ways it can be analyzed and interpreted. Great performances by all the actors! :) By the way, this is off-topic but I wanted to comment on the closed captions which were done by an organization for accessibility...but quite a few lines and words were actually completely missing from the subtitles. I don't know if that can be fixed and re-uploaded? ~:~
God how I wish i could find love as Higgins and Doolittle did. The film is about two crazily opposite people finding one another in a most peculiar manner and under the most incredbile circumstances. It is a true diamond in a sea of cubic zirconia.
I love this movie much better than the My Fair Lady; great actors, eloquent script, very well directed, good music, settings well chosen, perfect ending! What a treat during this long lock down due to COVID=19. Thank you.
The last scene where he is walking along the street is the embankment in London. It’s interesting to see how little traffic there was back then. Would love to have known it then. The traffic is so heavy now.
@@scfeng6883 The scene where Freddy and Eliza drive off with Higgins chasing after them was at first a set with back projection, then it cuts to Higgins walking along the real Embankment shot outdoors. Most films were easily shot outdoors (e.g. Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others) from the beginning of moving pictures. There was no need to wait for film technology to be "good enough".
Wonderful story ❤ I remember playing her character in a school play and getting that awful screeching sound was not as easy as it appeared 😏 Thank you for the memories 👏
He also won the Academy Award for this movie as well. One of the only two people to win both the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award, the other being Bob Dylan.
Sakalaka Matahata No he didn't! The Nobel Prize is awarded for a body of literature, not just one work. Furthermore he was awarded the prize 12 years after this play was first produced.
@@7A54G8 See my comment above. The Nobel Prize is for a body of work, not just one. See details of his citation here: www.thoughtco.com/nobel-prize-in-literature-winners-4084778
I always loved my Fair Lady, but this one beats that version as story line. Leslie Howard was amazing, regardless I love Rex Harrison in his performance so much. I think story line, loyalty to it's splendid original is the biggest winner here. Then again, it was a success all together. I was happily surprised as I was expecting a worse version. Really loved it.
As excellent as My Fair Lady was as a musical - both in its music and witty lyrics - I too was really surprised that this version was so well done. I would agree with you completely, it was a "success all together" - certainly better than what I was expecting.
Leslie suggested Bogart for the the Gangster Role in the movie The Petrified Forest and that kick started Bogy's Career and in turn Bogart Named His first Born Leslie❤
Wonderful drama had I ever watched . I wish I could watch more dramas of George Bernard Shaw..😀😀😀....... Please provide more dramas of Famous Dramatist Bernard Shaw.🙏🏼🙏🏼
For the first time in 25 years I have come to the realisation that Pygmalion is the basic play by the Irish author Bernard Shaw, for the musical 'My Fair Lady' 31 years later !! If it wasn't for this movie I would have never known it!!!
I do say, this film was quite interesting. I read a small portion of the play for an English Literature class, which prompted me to search for this movie online (I was delighted to find it). This seems like a fine way to capture the culture of the time, and I feel more refined having watched it. If there are any more play to movie adaptations like this, I must find them. I wish everybody who read this a good day, evening, or night, whichever suites you at this moment.
Un capolavoro teatrale trasposto per il Cinema -- con un magnifico Leslie Howard che domina lo schermo, accanto alla giovane protagonista -- precluso ai molti per la mancanza, quantomeno, dei sottotitoli in italiano !!
I love this film. I've been a Leslie Howard fan since I was a kid. My favorite film of his is Five And Ten with Marion Davies. It bombed at the box office in 1931, but I love it. His films with Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage, The Petrified Forest and It's Love I'm After are great too. Olivia De Havilland was in the later one before doing Gone With The Wind together.
For this being only her second appearance on film, Wendy Hiller’s regal performance during the ambassador’s reception in this 1938 gem can not only be favorably compared with Audrey Hepburn’s in the 1964 film musical; but it may also serve to explain why Hiller won an Academy Award nomination for her overall performance in this film. Audrey’s not being naturally English as Wendy was may have counted against her; for surely she had deserved an Oscar nod for her same performance…
I'm so glad Shaw agreed to change the ending and make Eliza & Professor Higgins end up together. Of course Shaw didn't like it because he was an antiromantic, but it's what everybody wanted, and I'm sure he was glad to get
It's so funny to see how completely NOT a gentleman Higgins is. I'm not speaking of what a cad he is to Eliza, but the way he puts his feet on his mother's furniture, sits on the keys of her piano, swears in front of women, and wears his dressing gown to breakfast.
But he speaks best standard English. Later Eliza can say to Higgins, that she learned manners and so she could be a better teacher for lower class people that became rich.
@@annawan2518 same like them both for different reasons. Sometimes I'd like to see the story without stopping for song and dance numbers lol. Howard and Hiller were both excellent in this
Extraordinary, really, that 90 years on, they can't produce movies of this quality. Just like photography; once the process had been invented, the pioneers came up with better photos than have since been produced. It's not about process, it's about imagination.
Wendy Hiller! When I first fell in love with her. The scene of her alone beginning at 13:00 in her room with her bird, battered mirror etc. She is not a 'great beauty' but has a face made for film. On stage one cannot see the exquisite little flickers of joy, wonder, amusement cross her face - only a film can catch that.
totally agree. Dame Wendy , I fell in love with her in this movie and the room scene with her bird is where we meet those eyes. They were still there when she deliciously gave a lesson in acting in the iconic Anne of Green Gables from the CBC. So thrilled to find this here on you tube.
@@marthaanderson2656 If you have a hankering to see the wonderful I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING with Wendy its free and complete on UA-cam dearie ua-cam.com/video/jclsmUgyetc/v-deo.html
Anyone else here watching this for a class?
Role play in our school!
YuP!! Me for mY English chapTer! Nd whT about youu??
Certainly,. Me 🖐 watching for my English Literature class
Heehe me
For English 🥲
Best line ever by Mrs Higgins: "I'm surprised she just threw the slippers. I'd have thrown the fire irons at you."
Or better a fire extinguisher....
The difference between a lady and a flower girl isn't the way she behaves, it's the way she's treated.
Actually, it's also the way she behaves, if she's truly a lady.
treat is for behavior
Movies are fun to watch, even when foolish.
@@wyominghome4857 Higgins denies your point. He threw Eliza‘s refined behavior in her face as though it was merely what he had taught her, as though behavior is not something that is learned but inherent. Pickering treated Eliza as a lady from the beginning.
@@denvan3143 Higgins wasn't a gentleman, as I'm sure his mother would have agreed. :)
What a marvelous performance of Eliza! She was astonishing!
yes but so was Audrey Hepburn
Love both Pygmalion and My Fair Lady.
Audery was the best
Audrey Hepburn andJulie Andrews both failed to find the Cockney girl Eliza must rise up out of to fulfill Shaw's conceit!
Julie was too beautiful for cockney Eliza ( she’d have trouble being a “good girl”). Audrey was way too skinny. Men didn’t think that look was attractive until the 1960s. Wendy was unattractive is the beginning and so regal at the ball.
Such a beautiful movie! As a student of English literature I hope to read the original play in near future. This flawless adaptation changed my views on early cinemas and their qualities. It is on the top of my most favourite movies now. Truly, a thing of beauty is a joy forever ❤️
Goodness, you might want to invest in watching more movies then that of which are cherry picked. Plenty, plenty of movies, I think Stowaway is a fantastic one (1936), it was color in cinema too. Cinecolor which was popular in the early 1930s.
As they say, the model T was not the only vehicle in the 1920s.
Nigga I watched the movie so I don't read the book 😅
The the film Rebecca , darker than this but brilliant. Alfred Hitchcock starring Joan Fontaine. Also Ladies of retirement is brilliant.
@@bestdisco1979 Oh a wicked film, I felt so bad for her, its ironic even so that the title of the movie is about Rebecca instead of the no named wife.
I have the original written play as a pdf, if you want it
This is one of most beautiful movies I have seen! Wendy Hiller transforms herself from the flower girl, to the still insecure girl in the scene in which she visits Higgins' mother (one of the most hilarious scenes I have watched in a movie) to the smart, articulate woman in the last scenes of the movie. What a wonderful actor! This movie is also about education. I wished all poor girls in this world had the same luck as Eliza Doolittle in this movie.
I wish all poor boys in this world had the same luck as Eliza Doolittle.
Is this more about love than money and luck?
This movie is also (very much) about self-improvement, and taking INITIATIVE - a topic close to Shaw's heart. Eliza ***took note of Higgins' address, ***spent her silver on a taxi to get there, ***got into his house (no mean feat!), and ***offered to pay for "lessons" (even haggling assertively over the price, lol). Note that she told Higgins that ***she would go to his competitors for lessons if he didn't give her a fair shake, lol.
Shaw had quite a bit to say about initiative and self-improvement, and Pygmalion may be his best treatise on the subject! Just sayin! :-)
Love to All
Old joke about the comment that it looks like rain: “Yes, but it’s really coffee ☕️ “. 😂😂😂😂😂
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Have known of this jewel for decades. Untouchable. Any other version fails. Everyone in this film was superb. Hiller and Howard simply off the Richter Scale. Geniuses!! Hiller CRUSHES me completely!!!!!!!!!!!
Seeing the other attempts make seeing this better, so they help Grandiose it.
I'm 58, and have always loved My fair lady since I was a teenager. I was aware the source was Pygmalion and much to my delight I have found the full 1938 original version free on youtube. Popcorn time for me! :-) Simply adore these. And the musical score is still amongst the best!
Nearing sixty and have seen My Fair Lady maybe hundred+ times. Knew what it was based of but did not know about this movie. What a pleasant surprise!
O no, Hepburn never be as good actress, but she is beautiful
I saw this when I was young and then later on My Fair Lady - which I really did not like so much - I felt Rex Harrison never showed proper respect or deference to Eliza where as Leslie Howard finally relents his stoic nature and shows humanity
Leslie Howard was classy, handsome and charming with impeccable acting.
You may be right never saw him on stage stick on cinema just my opinion stay blessed and healthy
Those Doe Eyes always got to me.. and still does. LOL
@@marquitaarmstrong399 Well you wouldn't have would you, unless you're a very, very elderly person, as he was killed in WWII.
@sam loran No, he did not. There is absolutely no rumour about that, so stop lying for attention.
@sam loran wtf are you talking abt pls
Leslie Howard was one of the best of the early cinema. A great one I hadn't seen in decades! My Fair Lady is very good, but comes in second.
I think the reason Pygmalion is superior is because of the casting (and witty screenplay writing). As much as I like Rex Harrison, he really can't pull off a role where he's supposed to come off as uncaring, while Leslie Howard does "clinical" very well. Also, did anyone actually find Audrey Hepburn believable as a "guttersnipe"?
"My Fair Lady" may have won 8 Academy Awards, but "Pygmalion" is a better production.
No way.
@@MrVvulf Hepburn was totally miscast (but she did her best). Harrison was both too old for Higgins, too tanned and too one-note... always bellowing but doesn't have any of the charm, sarcastic wit and credible narcissism Howard has... not to mention Leslie Howard is incredibly attractive in this film no matter how obnoxious his character. Wilfrid Lawson is more believable as Dolittle than Stanley Holloway, who's cute but, again, too old. Marie Lohr is glowing as Higgin's mum. Then there's the Embassy scene... Hiller is stunning... far more striking than Hepburn, and it's a more amazing transformation from her flower girl self. I love the songs in My Fair Lady but the film is really quite leaden and overblown (the entire Ascot scene isn't nearly as good as Pygmalion's tea scene). Pygmalion really holds up much better than My Fair Lady.
@@PalacinkyPDX Agreed.
My Fair Lady is fun, but G.B. Shaw would not have liked it. In a postscript to Pygmalion, Shaw wrote about what really happened to Eliza. After leaving Higgins, she opened a flower shop. She married a nice man. They struggled some, but ultimately did all right. She even dropped in on Higgins from time to time, but she never, ever loved him.
@@MrVvulf WOW! I had never heard that. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the info!
Having seen all the adaptions, I found this little gem to to be the best and truest.
Leslie was and is the ultimate genius legend in acting world
Now that I have a few of his movies, indeed he is the ultimate genius legend in acting world. So is our Laurence Olivier. I just love both of them.
Just delightful! Excellent movie! Who knew the long-suffering "Ashley Wilkes" could be funny before "Gone With the Wind"? Who knew Dame Wendy was such a pretty "gill" in her youth? You see, the first time I "met" Miss Hiller, she was already in her mid-70's playing a wealthy and lonely old rich woman in "Anne of Green Gables, the Sequel," so to now see her in her introductory role at age 25 is quite special. Highly recommended ... in BOTH roles! As they say, they don't make 'em like this anymore.
Oh, you've got to look for more Leslie Howard movies, especially the Scarlet Pimpernel and Mr. "Pimpernel" Smith - he displays all his amazing talent! And depth of his true personal moral compass. A true hero!
@@ladydianepoet Thank you for telling me about Scarlett Pimpernel ... I just watched it and finished with a smile :)
Oh how marvelous to see this gorgeous film again. Incredible acting. Such class...bliss. Thank you so much for posting this gem.
Wow! I would not have believed anyone could be as good as Rex Harrison! Well done! Thanks for posting. Leslie Howard very fine acting. Mrs. Pierce, Alfred P. Doolittle, the other professor...everybody! Delightful!
I notice as main difference to My Fair Lady, that here Henry Higgins is more confident, not taking three minutes to confess himself and others about being bachelor.
At least the story also works in an environment, where the cabs hasn't literal horsepower and the recording machines microphones and electronical amplification.
The best version..
The actors look natural people .
Actors like them are so incredible.
I like a lots
Thank you
In order to appeal "to the majority of the spectators", moviemakers always tried to change the original end of the play,- which was also perfectly happy! Ms. Doolittle became an independent strong young lady, which made sense, since all the play is about two things: dignity&education. And for the people, who had doubts about the end of the play, G.B. Shaw has written a special explanation: Eliza has got married to the noble Freddy Eynsford Hill, and Colonel Pickering gave them money to start own business, so they could support themselves. Freddy loved Eliza, and they lived happily ever after.
I think Shaw’s separate epilogue to _Pygmaluon_ could be developed into an excellent miniseries. And the title would, of course, be _Galatea._
Sorry for Freddy then, because he deserves some ease and real love too, where Eliza mostly leads him on in order to escape her broken self-confidence and pride, as well as to punish and make prof Higgins jealous, or show she manages without him and his approval. Freddy needs a woman -or therapist first -who helps him heal his people-pleasing insecurity and gain self-confidence and independence. Although he does show some independence in appreciating her ways at the reception, where the others are inhibited and bewildered.
And I'm glad Alan Jay Lerner thought otherwise (and shame on the recent Brodway revival for soiling the masterpiece of that great musical)
@@denvan3143 thank goodness for that. The horrible arrogance of the Prof sickened me !
And Henry Higgins simply said "she's marry Freddy"
Leslie Howard, what an incredibly talented actor. To think we lost him so young, at aged 50. His poor family. And to fathom the long career & number of Oscar worthy performances that were ahead of him. RIP to a great one.
Oh yes so agree with ya lol. This might sound weird but when I was introduced to Howard's films via mom as a ten year old I dreamed of marrying him I was so smittened. lol
Long before 9/11, JFK and faked moon landing, there is the controversy over Leslie Howard's death.
Leslie suggested bogart for the role of a gangster in the movie the petrified forest and that kick started bogarts film career and then bogart named his daughter Leslie after Leslie Howard...
@@dancingtrout6719 I don't know but I only think of his son Stephen,even though I read a biography about him.
@@micheleandhenrycasavant386 Are you from the Québec pipe organ family?
58:00 Miss Doolittle, absolutely charming. The entire party watches her dance, she is adorable to me! Great movie; wonderful story line, acting and action. Endless fun. Thanks!
Silly me...i am 67 yrs old and never knew that My Fair Lady was a remake of a classic movie...fantastic
Oh, I am getting schooled right here! As Johnny Carson would say, “ I did NOT know that!”
Me to with 69
It is a play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1912, then adapted into a movie, then adapted into a Broadway musical as My Fair Lady in 1956, then as a musical film in 1964.
@@mandboat thanks for the info ( I didn't know)....Leslie Howard is one of my favorite actors of that era ...."The Petrified Forest" being at the top of my list.
If you look at films through the ages long enough, you will find little is original.
I love this movie so much also in Egypt we take this movie in my school as a drama and after I had watched this film the drama in my school become more easier so thank you so much
same!! i have it as a play in the christmas assembly
U r in the 11th grade in a language school ... right ?!
@@MohamedAlaa_729 yes and the exam after some days 😩😂
@@malaklifestyle702 mine is on this Thursday 😩
@@MohamedAlaa_729 no my exam will be on Monday 😭😭
Even without the music we all associate with this story, it is the story, itself, which is marvelous and Wendy Hiller, astonishing as she is beautiful and an amazing actress. GB Shaw's writing shall be remembered for so many things, but for especially this story., taken from an ancient Greek one and so on and so on.
The music let look all characters not very confident. Henry Higgins needs 3 minutes and many arguments, to justify his bachelor status and why it is better to keep it.
I always enjoy viewing this film. The acting is impeccable. Leslie Howard is a consummate Henry Higgins, and Wendy Hiller is a most perfect Eliza Dolittle--a true Shavian heroine.
Good point. :-) I always FORGET that the acting is impeccable - when it IS impeccable - BECAUSE it is impeccable!
Thank you for the uploading.l liked 1938 version most of all. The heroes are REAL
people
I'm pleased to see this Pygmalion 1938, a few years older than I am. I've a younger Pygmalion-My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn. I love these movies. Thanks!
Но Лесли Ховард мне больше нравится!
Rex Harrison was WAY too hold, the man had a dowager's hump! Leslie Howard was young, fierce and obnoxious in a hilarious way.
I agree, but my focus was My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn, i once again saw at home two weeks ago. To my opinion the best of the best. I love and still love this movies. Thanks!
Wendy Hiller, was one of the greatest actresses of all time, that’s my humble opinion, of course.
Y TIENES RAZON
i watched part of this film in my english classes several years ago. i'm glad i have found it today.
Ah, the wonder of great literature, great actors all, great acting, a great film and time well spent watching said film. God bless you for sharing and may the endeavors of your sponsors flourish.
Thank you, All Time Classic Movies, this is a true classic.
All thanks to G.B Show for this charming story of a poor young woman towards a highly mannered professor of phonetics.
And thanks to the director for this wonderful work.
And show the true affection of love
I've passed over this movie many times. I'm so glad I finally watched it. It amazes me how my perception never grasped all the Kabbalistic hints that are in these old movies. It's very enlightening.
Kabalistic hints? What do you mean?
@@kerryhorwitz4093 "Kabbalistic hints"-- that was posted by a person who'd find "kabbalistic hints" if they watched a Donald Duck cartoon.
Lovely Wendy Hiller and the incomparable Leslie Howard.
This movie knocked my socks off! I was thoroughly impressed with the entire storyline, acting, chemistry, everything!
Captains Courageous has always been my all time favorite movie/story (by Rudyard Kipling), up until NOW. This little gem of a master piece is giving my all time favorite, a run for its money.
The first scene at Higgins' mother's house is a comedy classic I never tire of it.
I so adore Leslie Howard. One of my favorite classic comedy's. For the life of me, I can't think of his lovely co-star's name. But, they were great together. I'm at that age......to old to be young and forgetful as a cabbage leaf. Thanks for the upload. Thank you.
It's better than the remake. I love it.
I absolutely loved the film. I've never seen it before. Wonderful acting.
do you maybe know what the bird signified at 11:40 ? henry said ''a reminder''
@thequrratulain oh! thank you so much :)
So good to see an older version. Loved it!
Love this movie. It is indeed one of the great classics. I could not understand Howard's idol appeal after watching Gone with the Wind, but in this movie,his acting really sparkles. Leslie Howard at his finest. George Bernard Shaw also adopted his own play into a screenplay for this movie and won an Oscar in 1938. Shaw was the only individual who won both a Nobel prize (for Literature) and an Oscar.
I agree. Ashley Wilkes annoyed me but I loved Leslie Howard after I saw this and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
WIKI "At Shaw's insistence, she (Hiller) starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins".
What a wonderful movie. Don't let the first couple minutes of semi-fuzzy picture put you off. It clears up quickly, and this movie is a gem, with laugh-out-loud moments. Thanks for the upload!
Excellent theatrical film production and holy heck what great acting chops from Howard and Hiller.
Thank you for uploading with subtitles!! ❤️💕❤️ Much love
Enjoyed the apt depiction of the play by Bernard Shaw. Leslie Howard has played the role in a classy manner .
Shaw actually LOVED the movie! He was really picky about his work being filmed.
Wow Wow, no words ! A masterpiece. The acting was amazing and the dialogues were delivered perfectly. I was watching it for academic purpose but ended up really enjoying it. The comic elements in this play were just cherry on top. Outstanding and beautiful.😍
G.B. Shaw's immortal masterpiece..👏
I'm positively smitten by this version! Thank you so much for sharing it!
I'm from India ., today I was reading G. B. Shaw for the purpose,of cracking NET exam, suddenly my eyes consisted on PYGMALION and i shocked knowing that for it Shaw was awarded both the NOBEL Prize in literature and OSCAR for his work on the film adaptation of his plays pygmalion, I couldn't stop my fingers searching this film from the UA-cam treasury, and my curious mind satisfied seeing it. Too good movie.
Had studied the novel as a part of curriculum in school...
But I must sincerely admit that the movie is much more attention grasping and resists the blink of an eye.... So good to see the characters being bought to life (surely it would have been picturized much before than I discovered) with alacrity of thoughts and sense of appeasement and amusement at the same time.... Hats off to The Great Bernard Shaw for writing such a masterpiece , an exemplary Act for the learners , praisers and entertainment seeking section of the mass.... But at the end I feel " the cockney is much cooler than the regular english"👍😊
"Ello to ya and me luv to ol"...
It is a play, not a novel
@@it2313 cool ..... Whatever @Tarau , doesn't matter..... As far as u liked it if u enjoyed it .... Its all good
I studied Pygmalion at school in my native language in 1973.
Little did I know that I would fall in love in My Fair Lady in 1988 in Australia.
in my english class.
"We want none of that slum prudery of yours, you're going to have to learn how to behave like a duchess." Shaw at his most delicious!
What an outstanding performance by Eliza!
Hiller was awesome in The Elephant Man. Leslie Howard died too young. Most people think of him as the milquetoast Ashley Wilkes but he'll always be The Scarlet Pimpernel to me. He was a great actor.
The very best adaptation of a Pygmalion story!!!
A great work of art becomes a timeless masterpiece. George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion fits that description perfectly. This play and film portrays the plight of women in a world dominated by men. In our times, as women rise to new heights, this film inspires the hearts and minds of many, women and men alike.
yes Liza is treated like a piece of meat by both her pimp father and the inhuman Higgins
No. I disagree. The play by Shaw and the film are concerned about class not gender. Eliza is held back by her class. She reveals her class through her speech, as Professor Higgins shows, when he transforms her into a presumptive princess by changing it. Though nothing else about her has changed, she is suddenly a lady, a highborn lady. Higgins has changed her life. He has to take responsibility for what he has done, and he happily does!
Hmmm I saw it much differently. Clearly Eliza and Higgin's mother were the dominant ones who artfully orchestrated the desired outcome. When women unite men have no power over them.
Thank you for posting this delightful, well acted movie. I first saw Leslie Howard in "OF Human Bondage" with Bette Davis, her first role of her own, I believe. I found the very old VHS in a second hand shop, and got it due to it having Bette in it. I could not get over his role with the crippled foot, and his eyes and face reflected all he was thinking without saying, throughout the movie. Upon seeing other scripts he had played, he was an owner of the role given to him, and added his own to it. Is Ronald Howard related to him, I now wonder. I loved this as much as I did Rex and Audreys musical rendition. It was so sad to hear how he and others were killed in that plane., what a loss. Thank you again.
Just found Pimpernel Smith with Leslie Howard. Going to have a peek, got the grapes, Tillamook cheese and apple cider. :D
Ronald Howard was Leslie Howard's son.
I can't believe this version is so underrated (I mean, it was popular in its time but seems to largely have been forgotten now) even when My Fair Lady is still quite well known and loved. I love comparing all the different versions of My Fair Lady/Pygmalion; I recently saw My Fair Lady on stage and it had some similarities and differences both with this movie and the 1964 movie. Either way I love this story for all the different ways it can be analyzed and interpreted. Great performances by all the actors! :)
By the way, this is off-topic but I wanted to comment on the closed captions which were done by an organization for accessibility...but quite a few lines and words were actually completely missing from the subtitles. I don't know if that can be fixed and re-uploaded?
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God how I wish i could find love as Higgins and Doolittle did. The film is about two crazily opposite people finding one another in a most peculiar manner and under the most incredbile circumstances. It is a true diamond in a sea of cubic zirconia.
I love this movie much better than the My Fair Lady; great actors, eloquent script, very well directed, good music, settings well chosen, perfect ending! What a treat during this long lock
down due to COVID=19. Thank you.
"Walk? Not bloody likely!" - excellent 😄
The last scene where he is walking along the street is the embankment in London. It’s interesting to see how little traffic there was back then. Would love to have known it then. The traffic is so heavy now.
Pretty sure that's a set made to look like the embankment, because I don't think film technology back then was good enough to shoot outdoors.
@@scfeng6883 The scene where Freddy and Eliza drive off with Higgins chasing after them was at first a set with back projection, then it cuts to Higgins walking along the real Embankment shot outdoors. Most films were easily shot outdoors (e.g. Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others) from the beginning of moving pictures. There was no need to wait for film technology to be "good enough".
Anyone else watching this for a assignment?✋
“I’ve taught scores of American millionairesses to speak English.” Lol That was hilarious!
Anyone watch in 2024?
I do. From Germany. 😊
2025😂❤
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I like this version better than my fair lady. It has more charm and authenticity.
Wendy Hiller was wonderful. Her film "I know where I'm going" is a classic.
I've seen it a half dozen times.
Well acted, well written, and well done. I am glad I found it.
I'm having my exam for british drama tomorrow😂
Maybe I'll be able to ace it thanks to this❤
I watched this when I was a young girl, it had a great effect on my life.
which is?
Perfect demonstration of the original play!
Wonderful story ❤ I remember playing her character in a school play and getting that awful screeching sound was not as easy as it appeared 😏
Thank you for the memories 👏
Thank you so much! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Leslie Howard just loved him, such a wonderful movie, Mr Howard Directed it too.
Co-directed it; Anthony Asquith was the other director.
A little fact: G. B. Shaw won a novel peace prize for literature for writing this play.
He also won the Academy Award for this movie as well. One of the only two people to win both the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award, the other being Bob Dylan.
He supported mass genocide of the "undesirables"
Sakalaka Matahata No he didn't! The Nobel Prize is awarded for a body of literature, not just one work. Furthermore he was awarded the prize 12 years after this play was first produced.
@@7A54G8 See my comment above. The Nobel Prize is for a body of work, not just one. See details of his citation here: www.thoughtco.com/nobel-prize-in-literature-winners-4084778
@@combatantezoteric2965 are people still spreading that stupid rumor?
Brilliant. What a storytelling. Beats many modern day firms. Great acting. Everything is so good.
I always loved my Fair Lady, but this one beats that version as story line. Leslie Howard was amazing, regardless I love Rex Harrison in his performance so much. I think story line, loyalty to it's splendid original is the biggest winner here. Then again, it was a success all together. I was happily surprised as I was expecting a worse version. Really loved it.
As excellent as My Fair Lady was as a musical - both in its music and witty lyrics - I too was really surprised that this version was so well done. I would agree with you completely, it was a "success all together" - certainly better than what I was expecting.
Leslie suggested Bogart for the the Gangster Role in the movie The Petrified Forest and that kick started Bogy's Career and in turn Bogart Named His first Born Leslie❤
A true masterpiece that transcends the passage of time
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Wonderful drama had I ever watched . I wish I could watch more dramas of George Bernard Shaw..😀😀😀....... Please provide more dramas of Famous Dramatist Bernard Shaw.🙏🏼🙏🏼
For the first time in 25 years I have come to the realisation that Pygmalion is the basic play by the Irish author Bernard Shaw, for the musical 'My Fair Lady' 31 years later !! If it wasn't for this movie I would have never known it!!!
wow
I do say, this film was quite interesting. I read a small portion of the play for an English Literature class, which prompted me to search for this movie online (I was delighted to find it). This seems like a fine way to capture the culture of the time, and I feel more refined having watched it. If there are any more play to movie adaptations like this, I must find them. I wish everybody who read this a good day, evening, or night, whichever suites you at this moment.
_I can do without anybody!_ _I have my own soul, my own spark of divine fire._
Everyone is doing Leslie's justice but not a word for the actress who portray Eliza. She is the one who makes the movie.
Don’t worry I certainly fell in love with Wendy Hiller!
Thank you for uploading this movie.
No one ( though I love Rex) can do this as Leslie, plus it’s just… eat more classy, full of wit and I love the tinges of love hints. Marvelous!
Hilarious! Hardly hable to hold my head in my hands. Frankenstein falls in love with his creation.
I was Lucky to see Peter Otoole on Briadway in Pygmalian. .Amazing
Me too! Got his autograph but lost it in hurricane Katrina
Wendy Hiller is an absolute delight!
Un capolavoro teatrale trasposto per il Cinema -- con un magnifico Leslie Howard che domina lo schermo, accanto alla giovane protagonista -- precluso ai molti per la mancanza, quantomeno, dei sottotitoli in italiano !!
Apparently our scientific understanding of arachnids has come a long way.
omg..the tea party at his mothers house had me roaring! lol so funny
"Walk? Not bloody likely I'm taking a TAXI!"
Cinematic perfection......inspired by the masterful writing of GBS.....and the brilliant casting and performances.....
I love this film. I've been a Leslie Howard fan since I was a kid. My favorite film of his is Five And Ten with Marion Davies. It bombed at the box office in 1931, but I love it. His films with Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage, The Petrified Forest and It's Love I'm After are great too. Olivia De Havilland was in the later one before doing Gone With The Wind together.
I have to watch this for school, the subtitles are very helpful :)
watching for school as well
haha same
I started watching it just for my exam purposes. But i fell in love with this masterpiece ❣️
For this being only her second appearance on film, Wendy Hiller’s regal performance during the ambassador’s reception in this 1938 gem can not only be favorably compared with Audrey Hepburn’s in the 1964 film musical; but it may also serve to explain why Hiller won an Academy Award nomination for her overall performance in this film. Audrey’s not being naturally English as Wendy was may have counted against her; for surely she had deserved an Oscar nod for her same performance…
I'm so glad Shaw agreed to change the ending and make Eliza & Professor Higgins end up together. Of course Shaw didn't like it because he was an antiromantic, but it's what everybody wanted, and I'm sure he was glad to get
It's so funny to see how completely NOT a gentleman Higgins is. I'm not speaking of what a cad he is to Eliza, but the way he puts his feet on his mother's furniture, sits on the keys of her piano, swears in front of women, and wears his dressing gown to breakfast.
But he speaks best standard English.
Later Eliza can say to Higgins, that she learned manners and so she could be a better teacher for lower class people that became rich.
This is a wonderful movie. I prefer this an infinite amount over My Fair Lady
Love both movies.
@@annawan2518 same like them both for different reasons. Sometimes I'd like to see the story without stopping for song and dance numbers lol.
Howard and Hiller were both excellent in this
@@ShawDAMAN 😊😁👍
My Fair Lady was based on this film version -- NOT GBS' original play.
@@annawan2518 Same, but found this to be much moredeeper in showing feelings of the characters.
Wonderful! It surpasses My Fair Lady in charm.
Beautiful movie. Greta acting; love Wendy Hiller! What a lady!!!
who else think that Eliza loves the professor ????????
Excellent template to which Audrey Hepburn added just the right amount of MAGIC. Both "My Fair Lady" and this are most exquisitely appealing.
Extraordinary, really, that 90 years on, they can't produce movies of this quality. Just like photography; once the process had been invented, the pioneers came up with better photos than have since been produced. It's not about process, it's about imagination.
the last sentence is so great!
Wendy Hiller! When I first fell in love with her. The scene of her alone beginning at 13:00 in her room with her bird, battered mirror etc. She is not a 'great beauty' but has a face made for film. On stage one cannot see the exquisite little flickers of joy, wonder, amusement cross her face - only a film can catch that.
Pygmalion
totally agree. Dame Wendy , I fell in love with her in this movie and the room scene with her bird is where we meet those eyes. They were still there when she deliciously gave a lesson in acting in the iconic Anne of Green Gables from the CBC. So thrilled to find this here on you tube.
@@marthaanderson2656 If you have a hankering to see the wonderful I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING with Wendy
its free and complete on UA-cam dearie ua-cam.com/video/jclsmUgyetc/v-deo.html
yes such a great scene