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Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

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Adaptations

Stage
  • 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
Film
  • Pygmalion (1935), a German film adaptation by Shaw and others, starring Gustaf Gründgens as Higgins and Jenny Jugo as Eliza. Directed by Erich Engel.
  • Pygmalion (1938), a film adaptation by Shaw and others, starring Leslie Howard as Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza
  • 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), an American hardcore pornography film take-off starring Constance Money and Jamie Gillis
  • She's All That (1999): a modern, teenage take on Pygmalion
Television
  • A 1963 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Pygmalion, starring Julie Harris as Eliza and James Donald as Higgins
  • Pygmalion (1983), an adaptation starring Peter O'Toole as Higgins and Margot Kidder as Eliza
  • Pygmalion (1985), a BBC adaptation starring James Villiers as Higgins and Lynn Redgrave as Eliza
  • The Makeover, a 2013 Hallmark Hall of Fame modern adaptation of Pygmalion, starring Julia Stiles and David Walton and directed by John Gray[19][20]
Non–English language
  • Ti Phulrani, an adaptation by Pu La Deshpande in Marathi. The plot follows Pygmalion closely but the language features are based on Marathi.
  • Santu Rangeeli, an adaptation by Pravin Joshi in Gujarati
  • A 2007 adaptation by Aka Morchiladze and Levan Tsuladze in Georgian performed at the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi
  • Man Pasand, a 1980 Hindi movie directed by Basu Chatterjee
  • Ogo Bodhu Shundori, a 1981 Bengali comedy film starring Uttam Kumar directed by Salil Dutta
  • Laiza Porko Sushi, a Papiamentu adaptation from writer and artist May Henriquez
  • Gönülcelen, a Turkish series starring Tuba Büyüküstün and Cansel Elcin

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