Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady.

George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 stage play Pygmalion has been adapted to the screen in at least five versions, including the 1964 Oscar-winning musical My Fair Lady. However, it is the 1938 Pygmalion that ...

Fifty-one years ago Wednesday, Audrey Hepburn took center stage at the world premiere of “My Fair Lady” — the story of a snobbish professor and a Cockney flower girl. While it’s the most popular, “My ...

Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller; TIME, Dec. 5). Angels With Dirty Faces (James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Dead End Kids; TIME. Dec. 5). Sixty ...