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...Pygmalion (Gabriel Pascal) is Bernard Shaw's famed comedy about the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a lady by a phonetics expert; the simultaneous transformation of the phonetics expert into a human being by the flower girl. As the first authorized, full-length screen version of a play by the world's No. 1 living dramatist, Pygmalion could scarcely have avoided being important. It could easily have avoided being good. As produced by Gabriel Pascal and acted by Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, it is not merely good but practically perfect...
...Pygmalion delighted both critics and cinemaddicts in England, where it has been playing for seven weeks. It is likely to delight U. S. critics and cinemaddicts. More significant, it pleased its own author. Heretofore adamant in refusing to sell cinema rights of his plays (with the exception of two shorts: How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man), Bernard Shaw not only helped write the script for Pygmalion but agreed to let Producer Pascal film all his other plays. Producer Pascal will soon start work on Caesar and Cleopatra...
...Producer Pascal acquired possession of the world's richest mine of entertainment material would be as good a story as how the heroine of Pygmalion acquired the poise of a duchess but for the fact that it is utterly implausible. A squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, ex-farmer, cavalry officer and economist. Producer Pascal's best previous contribution to cinema was Franz Lehar's Frederica. His reward for the ripple of applause which it aroused in 1932 was a succession of minor jobs producing shorts...
...There has been one very important omission from the toast list," observed Playwright George Bernard Shaw when he was called upon to speak at a luncheon given by England's Pascal Films to inaugurate the filming of his play, Pygmalion. "And therefore," he concluded, "I ask you to drink to the health of George Bernard Shaw...
...this success down to a variety of good plays. The nation puts it down to the bickering, wrestling, fighting, cooing, unfailingly endearing intimacy of Lunt-Fontanne on-stage relations, their expert charm. The Guild paired them in Arms and the Man, The Goat Song, At Mrs. Beam's, Pygmalion, Juarez and Maximilian. In 1927 they did The Brothers Karamazov, The Second Man, The Doctor's Dilemma together, and in 1928 Actress Fontanne opened Strange Interlude on Broadway and Actor Lunt played Marco Millions and Volpone. Since then they have not been separated. They played Caprice in Manhattan...