Pygmalion - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Pygmalion"

Pygmalion (1939)

Timing: 1:36 (96 min)

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There was no scene in the 1912 play by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), which served as the literary source for the film adaptation, in which Eliza accidentally swallows a marble during a speech therapy lesson. During the rehearsal of this scene, pain was reflected on the face of actress Wendy Hilder (1912-2003); she spat out the marbles she was holding in her mouth and said, “Leslie, I swallowed one,” to which director Leslie Howard (1893-1943) immediately responded, “It’s alright, we have spares.” This incident amused the film crew and other actors, and they decided to leave the situation in the film during final editing, and also included it in the musical version – the 1964 film “My Fair Lady” by George Cukor (1899-1983).

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