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"Pygmalion (film, 1938)"

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Pygmalion 1938 British-made romantic comedy film. As in many countries of the world, it has been shown in Turkey with its original name.

Pygmalion is adapted from the same theater work written in 1913 of the Irish author George Bernard Shaw. This game was still based on Greek mythology, the same name. Bernard Shaw also contributed to the writing of the scenario. Anthony Asquith’s movie’s headroll player played together with Leslie Howard in other important roles of this satirik comedy film, playing Wendy Hiller and Scott Sunderland, a new step into cinema. The film’s fiction made David, which has not yet been directed. The black white images of the film belong to Harry Stradling Sr.

Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) from the upper layer, a scientist, voicewriter and speech teacher Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) is claiming with his friend who will turn a charming salmon-speaking street woman (Wendy Hiller) in a short time, and eventually fell in love with this work he created. In Greek mythology, which was based on the movie/game, Pygmalion, a statue of Cyprus, fell in love with a statue.

The Best Adaptation Script Academy Award was awarded with Bernard Shaw’s scenario team. The film was nominated for more Academy Award in 3 branches, including the best movie, the best male and female player branches. In Venice Film Festival, Leslie Howard was awarded the best male actor Volpi Cup.

A large number of adaptations of the work are made. The most well-known of them is the musical film of My Fair Lady dated 1956 and the same named 1964. Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison managed by George Cukor, this technicolor film had won a full 8 Oscar.

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Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard), an assety and gentle aristocrat from the upper layer. Professor Higgins, an audiologist, concentrates on British language and dialogues, and listen to a conversation for a short time, the owner of the voice can immediately tell from which region of England, or even the neighborhood of London, even from the street. The professor who has become a part of the house where the time was equipped with high-tech appliances, also gave many people to ask. Albay Pickering (Scott Sunderland) has invited her home to work together with a fundetic specialist as they follow each other’s scientific work remotely.

As always, London’s Covent Garden region, which is located for a field study, which notes different forms of speech, encounters roughly saba and argo speaking with Cockney accent in the Kir rust (Wendy Hiller). Higgins, which is endless to self-confidence in scientific field, immediately enters a claim with a colleague. Accurate speech in six months