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Pygmalion (1938) Pygmalion (1938) is the non-musical film version of George Bernard Shaw's 1912 stage play, a socio-economic drama based on the Cinderella story, but actually taken from the Greek myth of Pygmalion - about a sculptor who fell in love with a marble statue of his own making. The Broadway musical remake that was inspired from this film, Lerner and Loewe's 1956 production, also led to the famous film musical www.filmsite.org /pygm.html   (339 words)

SwissEduc: Shaw, George Bernard Jerry Carlson, Professor of film studies, City College of New York talks with Stanley Kaufmann about Shaw and the 1938 film version of Pygmalion; The City University of New York. Pygmalion, 1938; directed by Leslie Howard; starring Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller The Pygmalion Effect: A Dramatic Study in the Classroom. www.swisseduc.ch /english/readinglist/shawgb/pygmalion.html   (583 words)

IMDb: Venice Film Festival: 1938 Pygmalion (1938) - Anthony Asquith; Leslie Howard (I) Urlaub auf Ehrenwort (1938) - Karl Ritter (I) Teil - Fest der Völker (1938) - Leni Riefenstahl us.imdb.com /Sections/Awards/Venice_Film_Festival/1938   (110 words)

Something Old, Nothing New: She's a Fraud! However, I don't have any drug-trip movies on hand, so I had to settle for the 1938 film of Shaw's Pygmalion, with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. One more word about the infamous ending of the Pygmalion movie (people often attack My Fair Lady for "tacking on" this ending, not realizing that it's lifted directly from the 1938 movie version). And if you tried to update Pygmalion to the England of 2004, Pickering would be the rebel and Higgins, at least in terms of his manners, would be firmly on the side of the status quo. zvbxrpl.blogspot.com /2004/09/shes-fraud.html   (355 words)

1938 in India The Language of Eliza Doolittle in the 1938 Film Detailed essay analyzing Eliza's speech pattern and accent, as in the 1938 movie version of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Bantam Roadster 1938 - Małgorzata i Ryszard Gargul Strona poświęcona pojazdowi Bantam Roadster 1938, będÄ cym pasjÄ jego właścicieli. Kristallnacht 1938 Inhalt der Seite ist eine Reihe von Gedenkveranstaltungen zum Novemberpogrom 1938 (der von den Nazis als "Kristallnacht" bezeichnet wurde). www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1938_in_India.html   (355 words)

Leslie Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Howard proceeded to play stiff-upper-lipped Englishmen in films such as Berkeley Square (1933, for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Pygmalion (1938) (in which he played Professor Higgins, and earned another Oscar nomination), and Pimpernel Smith (1941). In 1943, he visited Lisbon (some say on a secret mission), and, on the return flight, his plane was shot down by the Luftwaffe over the Bay of Biscay, possibly because the Germans believed the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, to be on board. Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 – June 1, 1943) was a British film actor of Hungarian-Jewish descent. www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Leslie_Howard   (355 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Ronald Neame : Biography His most important films as cinematographer were Pygmalion (1938), Major Barbara (1939), In Which We Serve (1942), and One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942). assistant cameraman on Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929), the first English sound film. He served as a camera operator in the early '30s, and was elevated to director of photography in 1934. www.vh1.com /movies/person/92140/bio.jhtml   (425 words)

Dame Wendy Hiller Hiller was outstanding in PYGMALION (1938), opposite Leslie Howard and only her second film role, and in her third film, another Shaw adaptation, MAJOR BARBARA (1941). Following her 1936 Broadway debut in the play, Hiller appeared at the Malvern Festival honoring Shaw's 80th birthday, taking leading parts in Shaw's Pygmalion and Saint Joan with only six rehearsals for each show. Born in Bramhall, Cheshire, England, the daughter of Frank Watkin and Marie (née Hiller). theoscarsite.com /whoswho/hiller_w.htm   (503 words)

1938 Chronicle Among the year's better films were Boys Town, The Citadel, Of Human Hearts, Marie Antoinette, Three Comrades, Pygmalion, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Algiers, Holiday, Test Pilot, Sing You Sinners, and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Kirsten Flagstad, famous opera diva, made her film debut singing several Wagnerian areas in Big Broadcast of 1938. Van Dyke's Marie Antoinette and Anthony Asquith's Pygmalion, respectively, while Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was deemed a worthy winner of the art award. theoscarsite.com /chronicle/1938c.htm   (4463 words)

David Lean Lean was to become a highly respected editor, working on Gaumont Sound News (1930) and British Movietone News (1931-32), and later fictional features such Escape Me Never (1935), As You Like It (1936) and Pygmalion (1938). In 1990, Lean, who has been cited as an influence for directors such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, was the first non-American recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement award. Lean's next film, Lawrence of Arabia (1962) became the definitive dramatic film epic of its generation. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_cinema/38026   (459 words)

The Hindu : Miscellaneous / This Day That Age : dated July 08, 1954: Gabriel Pascal Pascal became Shaw's exclusive interpreter on the screen in 1938, when he gained the late playwright's consent to film "Pygmalion" in London. Gabriel Pascal, the Hungarian-born British film producer and director, who filmed several of George Bernard Shaw's plays, died on July 6 in the Roosevelt Hospital in New York. In 1941, he produced "Major Barbara", and in 1944, produced and directed "Caesar and Cleopatra." He had planned to go to India shortly to film the life of Mahatma Gandhi. www.hindu.com /2004/07/08/stories/2004070800010902.htm   (140 words)

Leslie Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Howard proceeded to play stiff-upper-lipped Englishmen in films such as Berkeley Square (1933, for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Pygmalion (1938) (in which he played Professor Higgins, and earned another Oscar nomination), and Pimpernel Smith (1941). Born Leslie Howard Stainer to a Hungarian Jewish father and an English Jewish mother in Forest Hill, London, Howard's classic good looks won him his first screen role in a 1914 silent film, following which he served in World War I, his military career being cut short due to case of severe shell shock. In 1936, Howard appeared in the film The Petrified Forest. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leslie_Howard   (341 words)

Waste Flix In the 1938 British film “Pygmalion,” directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard, and based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play, Alfred Doolittle provides one of the first glimpses of what would become a typical film depiction of the waste hauler. Perhaps the first portrayal of waste haulers in a U.S. film was “Ham at the Garbage Gentleman's Ball” (Kalem Studios, 1915), which was part of a series of Ham and Bud films starring slapstick comics Bud Duncan and Lloyd Hamilton. wasteage.com /mag/waste_waste_flix   (2452 words)

Pygmalion In 1938, a non-musical film version of the stage play was released, starring Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins, Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle, Wilfrid Lawson as her father, Alfred Doolittle, Scott Sunderland as Colonel George Pickering and David Tree as Freddy Eynsford-Hill. It was adapted to film by Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple and Anatole de Grunwald from the Shaw play, and directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard. The play was the basis for the musical play and film My Fair Lady. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/pygmalion   (2452 words)

Gabriel Pascal Moving to the UK, his Pascal Film Productions next produced George King's REASONABLE DOUBT for MGM and Lawrence Huntington's CAFE MASCOT for Paramount (both 1936), followed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard's PYGMALION for MGM in 1938. His first screen producing credit was the German film UNHEIMLICHE GESCHICHTEN / UNHOLY TALES (1932). Pascal produced and directed his next two Shaw adaptations, MAJOR BARBARA (1941) and CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (1952). theoscarsite.com /whoswho/pascal_g.htm   (129 words)

Anthony Asquith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He directed a film version of the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion in 1938, which featured Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller and predated the better known adaptation My Fair Lady (1964). The Honourable Anthony Asquith (November 9, 1902 - February 20, 1968) was a respected British film director. He was the son of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War I, and Margot Asquith and he was known as 'Puffin'. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Asquith   (152 words)

Anthony Asquith @ Filmbug He also directed a film version of the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion in 1938, predating the better known adaptation My Fair Lady. Tell us what you think of Anthony Asquith in the Filmbug forum... Anthony Asquith (1902-1968) was a British film director. www.filmbug.com /db/34612   (152 words)

Guardian Unlimited Arts news Obituary: Dame Wendy Hiller In 1937, the actor in fact married her author, Ronald Gow, and her film triumph as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1938) came after playing both that role and Saint Joan at the Malvern festival for Bernard Shaw in 1936. And though Gow deserved high praise for his handling of the novel, it was his wife who stole all our hearts with her rustic simplicity and emotional truth. Again, the adaptation was by Ronald Gow, and to my mind it was her finest stage performance. www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/obituary/0,12723,957472,00.html   (152 words)

Biography for David Lean (I) Lean entered the film industry in the late 1920s, at first working as a clapper boy for cameramen, later graduating to the cutting room (editing 1938's Pygmalion 1941's 49th Parallel and 1942's One of Our Aircraft Is Missing among others), finally wielding the megaphone (with Noël Coward) on In Which We Serve (1942). He was noted for the care he lavished upon his films, particularly in evoking time and place and in extracting perfect performances from his casts. Lean's two Dickens adaptations, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), are very likely the definitive screen translations of those endearing works; the former netted Lean his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director. www.imdb.com /name/nm0000180/bio   (152 words)

MTV Movies Stephen Murray Biography Making his movie debut in 1938 as a constable in Pygmalion, he went on to play more substantial roles like Gladstone in 1941's The Prime Minister and Dr. Manette in the 1958 version of A Tale of Two Cities. A British stage actor from 1933, Stephen Murray was seldom seen to best advantage in his film appearances. Stephen Murray closed out his screen career in the 1960s, some two decades before his death. www.mtv.com /movies/person/45428/bio.jhtml   (147 words)

Harry Stradling Stradling gained renown for his work on a number of British productions, including KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR (1937) and PYGMALION (1938), before returning to Hollywood in 1940. Entered film in the early 1920s as a Hollywood cameraman and emerged as a prominent cinematographer following his work in France on director Jacques Feyder's CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS (1935) / KERMESSE HEROIQUE. theoscarsite.com /whoswho2/stradling_h.htm   (147 words)

Playbill News: Dame Wendy Hiller, a Favorite of Shaw's Who Played London, Bway and Films, Dead at 90 Gabriel Pascal directed her in the film "Major Barbara" in 1941 and she had a fine screenwriter for 1938's Pascal-produced "Pygmalion" — Shaw himself got the credit. Shaw also championed her for casting in the two Gabriel Pascal-produced Shaw films. According to The Times of London, Love on the Dole was seen by Shaw who was so impressed he asked Hiller to play Saint Joan and Eliza Doolittle at the Malvern Festival in 1936. www.playbill.com /news/article/79612.html   (640 words)

Biography for Patrick Macnee Shortly after graduating from Eton (from which he was almost expelled for running a gambling ring), Macnee first appeared on stage and made his film debut as an extra in Pygmalion (1938). The British actor Patrick Macnee was born in 1922 in London, England, into a wealthy and eccentric family. His father, Daniel Macnee, was a race horse trainer, who drank and gambled away the family fortune, leaving young Patrick to be raised by his lesbian mother, Dorothea Mary, and her female lover. www.imdb.com /name/nm0001495/bio   (506 words)

Leslie Howard In the late 1930s, Howard began dabbling in directing, notably in his starring films Pygmalion (1938) and Pimpernel Smith (1941). Howard was tapped for the film version, but refused to make the movie unless Bogart was also hired (Warner Bros. had planned to use their resident gangster type, Edward G. Robinson). Only after the war ended was it revealed that Howard had selflessly taken that plane ride knowing it would probably never arrive in Lisbon; it was ostensibly carrying Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and was sent out as a decoy so that Churchill's actual plane would be undisturbed by enemy fire. www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+94979   (375 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Wilfred Lawson : Main Lawson was unforgettable as Alfred P. Doolittle ("I'm one of the undeserving poor...and I means to go on being undeserving") in Pygmalion (1938), no less impressive in the title role in The Great Mr. A stage actor from the age of 16, Briton Wilfrid Lawson made his film debut in the 1931 comedy East Lynne on the Western Front. E-commerce on this website is brought to you by MTVN Direct Inc. www.vh1.com /movies/person/36183/personmain.jhtml   (93 words)

MMI Tribute: Wendy Hiller One burst onto the international scene in 1938 like a rare wildflower in full bloom, winning an Academy Award nomination for her first major role: Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion." Her name was Wendy Hiller and her vibrant personality outshone her shifting speech patterns and her many costume changes. She was VERY particular about the roles she accepted and if that meant five or six years between film projects, so be it. As in her youth, Hiller played little old ladies with strength and conviction, and she gave a ferocious intelligence to the part of the elderly headmistress, clinging like a tiger to the independence of her life and the accuracy of her perceptions. www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/wendyhiller-ms-110678012.html   (251 words)

Hiller, Wendy Pygmalion (1938)- Starring Lelsie Howard, Wendy Hiller Wendy Hiller - Wendy Hiller Age: 90 celebrated British stage and film actress best known for her roles as Eliza... I Know Where I'm Going - Starring Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown, Walter Hudd www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0157090.html   (102 words)

Variety.com - Wendy Hiller Although she only made a handful of films in her long career, she became beloved and an international star as spirited flower seller Eliza opposite Leslie Howard's Henry Higgins in the 1938 film version of Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and heiress-turned-Salvation Army worker opposite Rex Harrison and Robert Morley in the playwright's "Major Barbara." (1941). Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Oscar winner Wendy Hiller, one of Britain's most acclaimed actresses of the 20th century and George Bernard Shaw's choice to play some of his most memorable characters, including Eliza Doolittle and Major Barbara, died Wednesday May 14 at her home in Beaconsfield, England. www.variety.com /article/VR1117886566   (423 words)

Wendy Hiller A justly renowned stage actress with a beautiful speaking voice and a uniquely crisp brand of charm, in relatively few film roles, Hiller was outstanding as Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" (1938), opposite Leslie Howard, and in another George Bernard Shaw adaptation, "Major Barbara" (1941). Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit She also graced the charming Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger romance, "I Know Where I'm Going" (1945) and later played fine character roles including the lonely hotel keeper in "Separate Tables" (1958), for which she won an Oscar, and the concerned wife of Sir Thomas More in "A Man for All Seasons" (1966). www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/197348   (307 words)

Leslie Howard @ Classic Movie Favorites - Biography He was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Henry Higgins in the 1938, Pygmalion with Wendy Hiller and also nominated for his performance in Berkeley Square, 1933. His performance as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel is considered the best on film. classicmoviefavorites.com /howard/bio.html   (307 words)

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