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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 (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.
  • 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.
Non-English language
  • Ti Fulrani (The Queen of Flowers), an adaptation by Pu La Deshpande in 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.

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