When 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.

Leslie Howard
as Henry Higgins

Wendy Hiller
as Eliza Doolittle

Wilfrid Lawson
as Alfred Doolittle

Marie Lohr
as Mrs. Higgins

Scott Sunderland
as Colonel George Pickering

Jean Cadell
as Mrs. Pearce

David Tree
as Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Everley Gregg
as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Leueen MacGrath
as Clara Eynsford-Hill

Esme Percy
as Count Aristid Karpathy
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Even though it was made some 25 years, or so, before "My Fair Lady" it still takes a few minutes before you get used to the fact that it has no singing... Once that has been established, we can enjoy a witty and pithy observation of class and superficiality that raises both smiles and heckles in equ...