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Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

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Adaptations

The play led to a series of adaptations:

  • Hoi Polloi (1935), a film adaptation by The Three Stooges
  • Pygmalion (1938), a film adaptation by Shaw starring Leslie Howard as "Higgins" and Wendy Hiller as "Eliza".
  • My Fair Lady (1956), the Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe (based on the 1938 film), starring Rex Harrison as "Higgins" and Julie Andrews as "Eliza".
  • A 1963 television production of Pygmalion, starring Julie Harris as "Eliza" and James Donald as "Higgins", telecast on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
  • My Fair Lady (1964), a film version of the musical starring Audrey Hepburn as "Eliza" and Rex Harrison as "Higgins".
  • The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) A more modern adaptation by the pornographic film industry.
  • She's All That (1999), a modern, teenage take on Pygmalion.
  • Pygmalion (2007) , a broadway revival of Pygmalion starring Jefferson Mays and Claire Danes.
  • Ti Fulrani (The Queen of Flowers), an adaptation by Pu La Deshpande in Marathi
  • Santu Rangeeli, an adaptation by Pravin Joshi in Gujarati
  • Pygmalion (2007), an adaptation by Aka Morchiladze and Levan Tsuladze in Georgian at the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi
  • My Unfair Lady (2007), a Czech-language parody by S&M fetish filmmakers Lupus Pictures.
  • Man Pasand is a 1980 Hindi movie directed by Basu Chatterjee, based on the play.
  • Willy Russell's 1980 stage comedy Educating Rita, and the subsequent film adaptation, are similar in plot to Pygmalion.[3]
  • The First Night of Pygmalion a play depicting the backstage tensions during the first British production.

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