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Pygmalion

  • TV Movie
  • 19831983
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
165
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POPULARITY
27,937
6,584
Pygmalion (1983)
Comedy
The standard My Fair Lady (1964) story, with a provocative rendition by Peter O'Toole. He knows how to talk, but does he know how to behave towards a lady?The standard My Fair Lady (1964) story, with a provocative rendition by Peter O'Toole. He knows how to talk, but does he know how to behave towards a lady?The standard My Fair Lady (1964) story, with a provocative rendition by Peter O'Toole. He knows how to talk, but does he know how to behave towards a lady?
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
165
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
27,937
6,584
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    • Director
      • Alan Cooke
    • Writer
      • George Bernard Shaw(play)
    • Stars
      • Peter O'Toole
      • Shelagh McLeod
      • Nancy Kerr
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    • Director
      • Alan Cooke
    • Writer
      • George Bernard Shaw(play)
    • Stars
      • Peter O'Toole
      • Shelagh McLeod
      • Nancy Kerr
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    • 8User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Peter O'Toole, Frances Hyland, Margot Kidder, John Standing, and Ron White in Pygmalion (1983)
    Margot Kidder in Pygmalion (1983)
    Peter O'Toole and Margot Kidder in Pygmalion (1983)
    Peter O'Toole and Margot Kidder in Pygmalion (1983)
    Pygmalion (1983)

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    Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole
    • Professor Henry Higgins
    Shelagh McLeod
    Shelagh McLeod
    • Clara
    Nancy Kerr
    Nancy Kerr
    • Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
    Ron White
    Ron White
    • Freddie Eynsford-Hill
    Margot Kidder
    Margot Kidder
    • Eliza Doolittle
    John Standing
    John Standing
    • Colonel Pickering
    Philip Craig
    Philip Craig
    • Bystander
    Hugh Webster
    • Sarcastic Bystander
    Helen Beavis
    • Mrs. Pearce
    Donald Ewer
    • Alfred Doolittle
    Frances Hyland
    Frances Hyland
    • Mrs. Higgins
    Donna Goodhand
    • Parlormaid
    • Director
      • Alan Cooke
    • Writer
      • George Bernard Shaw(play)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The original Broadway production of "Pygmalion" opened at the Park Theater opening October 12, 1914 and ran for seventy-two performances. The play premiered in a German translation at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on October 16, 1913 and in English at His Majesty's Theatre in London on April 11, 1914. The British production starred "Mrs. Patrick Campbell" and Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
    • Quotes

      Professor Henry Higgins: Pickering, shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we throw her out of the window?

    • Connections
      Version of Kanske en gentleman (1935)

    User reviews8

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    Top review
    8/10
    Women Have More Voice
    Comparisons with "My Fair Lady" are unfair to this fine television version of "Pygmalion." O'Tool gives a wonderful eccentric performance as Henry Higgens and Margot Kidder is a fine Eliza, but the quality which I especially find valuable when I use this version to teach in my Introduction to Literature is the speeches both Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Higgens give which are cut from the musical to make room for all that wonderful music. Thus the female voice of Mrs. Higgens, "No No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures!" (Act III line 198), is lost. Also the ending, which is even more vague than the musical about the future of the two main characters, is a wonderful leap off for class discussion about "middle class" expectations. I really enjoy all of this production.

    Anderson Rearick Mount Vernon Nazarene University Mount Vernon, OH.
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    • Jan 19, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 15, 1987 (Hungary)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • 20th Century Fox Television
      • Astral Film Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 49 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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