Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio before, demonstrating that radio can be a tremendous force in whipping up mass emotion. Playwright of the Year was Thornton Wilder, previously a precious litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich mine of dramatic material when other famed producers had given up all hope of ever tapping it. Men of the Year, outstanding in comprehensive science...
...Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Wendy Killer; TIME...
...Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller; TIME...
Shaw did indeed write all the dialogue for Pygmalion, which was taken verbatim from the stage play except for two new scenes showing Eliza's first bath and her first ball. In doing so, however, he showed his regard for American ideas to the extent of allowing most of Eliza's Cockney dialect in the opening scenes...
...member of the cast of Pygmalion whose work pleased everyone was 26-year-old Wendy Hiller. Famed as the star of Love on the Dole, whose coauthor, Ronald Gow, she married in 1937, Wendy Hiller plays Eliza with a minimum of frills, and complete sincerity. To her, as much as to Playwright Shaw and Producer Pascal, goes the credit for making Pygmalion come to life on the screen more completely than it ever did upon the stage...