Pygmalion

Pygmalion was one of the high prestige films which David Lean edited from 1936 until his first directing credit in 1942. After Paul Czinner's Shakespeare (As You Like It, 1936), came Gabriel Pascal's first attempt at putting George Bernard Shaw on the screen. Joining Lean on the production team were people who would famously work with him later; Jack Hildyard was the camera operator and John Bryan was the art director. Actor Anthony Quayle, later to play Colonel Brighton so brilliantly for Lean in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), took the uncredited role of the hairdresser in one tiny scene as Eliza is preparing for the Ball.

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