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Asquith, Anthony and Leslie Howard, directors. Pygmalion, motion picture, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with screenplay by GBS, edited by David Lean. 1938. Released on DVD in a digitally restored version by Janus Films, distributed by Criterion Collection. Stars Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle and Leslie Howard as Higgins.

Linguistics professor Henry Higgins (Howard) sets out to manufacture a glorious woman from a “deliciously low” street urchin named Eliza Dolittle (Hiller). In fact, she nearly (?) reinvents him.
Asquith & Howard motion picture is a clear source text for the Broadway musical by Lerner & Loewe, which was to become in turn the source for George Cukor's 1964 musical blockbuster. This film is an adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s stage-play Pygmalion.