
He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly!
1938 1 hour 36 minutesWhen 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.













6th October 1938
88 years ago
1 hour 36 minutes
Finishes at 6:08am
$350,000 ($7,905,415 today)
Revenue unknown
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