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In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871.
Pygmalion and Galatea, an Original Mythological Comedy is a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert in three acts based on the Pygmalion story. It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 9 December 1871 and ran for a very successful 184 performances. [1] It was revived many times, including an 1883 production in New York starring Mary Anderson ...
My Fair Lady. My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw 's 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as ...
Pygmalion (mythology) In Greek mythology, Pygmalion ( / pɪɡˈmeɪliən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen .: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid 's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle . The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations: Best Picture ...
Eliza Doolittle. Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the 1964 movie musical My Fair Lady. Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw 's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady . Eliza (from Lisson Grove, London) is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor ...
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach ...
Pygmalion effect. The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse performance. [ 1] It is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell so much in love with the perfectly beautiful statue he created that the statue came ...