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Pygmalion

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.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'... Read more

Watch "Pygmalion" from streaming services HBO Max, Roku Channel, Criterion Channel and several more released in 1939. It's a comedy and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.

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