''Pygmalion'' is a 1935 German
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Erich Engel
Erich Gustav Otto Engel (14 February 1891 – 10 May 1966) was a German film and theatre director.He is often confused with another German film director called Erich Engels, who specialised in comedy, and crime films.
Biography
Engel was ...
and starring
Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo (born Eugenie Walter; 14 June 1905 – 30 September 2001) was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950.
Biography
Jenny Jugo was born Eugenie Walter on 14 June 1905, the daughter of a factory ...
,
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (; 22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg ...
and
Anton Edthofer
Anton Franz Edthofer (18 September 1883 – 21 February 1971) was an Austrian actor.
Partial filmography
* '' The Sacrifice'' (1918)
* ''Freier Dienst'' (1918) - Landovsky
* ''Maria Magdalena'' (1919)
* '' The Eyes of the World'' (1920) - Heinz ...
. It is based on
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
's 1913 play ''
Pygmalion
Pygmalion or Pigmalion may refer to:
Mythology
* Pygmalion (mythology), a sculptor who fell in love with his statue
Stage
* ''Pigmalion'' (opera), a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
* ''Pygmalion'' (Rousseau), a 1762 melodrama by Jean-Jacques ...
''.
The basic plot consists of a professor's attempts to transform an uneducated flower seller into a proper lady.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Emil Hasler
Emil Hasler (November 8, 1901 – January 15, 1986) was a German art director who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. These included a number of Weimar classics such as ''Diary of a Lost Girl, M'' and ''The Blue Angel''.Prawe ...
and
Arthur Schwarz.
Cast
*
Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo (born Eugenie Walter; 14 June 1905 – 30 September 2001) was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950.
Biography
Jenny Jugo was born Eugenie Walter on 14 June 1905, the daughter of a factory ...
as
Eliza Doolittle
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 woman, who comes to Profe ...
*
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (; 22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg ...
as Professor Higgins
*
Anton Edthofer
Anton Franz Edthofer (18 September 1883 – 21 February 1971) was an Austrian actor.
Partial filmography
* '' The Sacrifice'' (1918)
* ''Freier Dienst'' (1918) - Landovsky
* ''Maria Magdalena'' (1919)
* '' The Eyes of the World'' (1920) - Heinz ...
as Oberst Pickering
*
Eugen Klöpfer
Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer (10 March 1886 in Talheim, Heilbronn – 3 March 1950 in Wiesbaden) was a German actor.
Early life
Born to Karl Klöpfer and his wife Karoline, née Hörsch, Eugen attended the Realschule ("secondary school") in Heilbro ...
as Alfred Doolittle
*
Hedwig Bleibtreu
Hedwig Bleibtreu (; 23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952. Bleibtreu is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in ''Th ...
as Mrs. Higgins
*
Käthe Haack
Käthe Haack (born Käte Lisbeth Minna Sophie Isolde Haack; 11 August 1897 – 5 May 1986) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 200 films and 30 television productions between 1915 and 1985.
Life and career
Käte Li ...
as Mrs. Pearce
*
Olga Limburg
Olga Limburg (5 April 1881 – 7 March 1970) was a German theater and film actress. She began her artistic career in 1901 with a commitment at the Municipal Theatre of Poznan. Since 1902, she played at several of Berlin's leading theaters includi ...
as Mrs. Hill
*
Karin Evans
Karin Evans (1907–2004) was a South African-born German stage and film actress. Evans was born in Johannesburg to one British and one German parent. In 1923 she moved to Berlin to study theatre, and began performing in the stage productions of M ...
as Klara Hill
*
Vivigenz Eickstedt
Vivigenz Eickstedt was a German stage and film actor.Goble p.389
Selected filmography
* '' The Riders of German East Africa'' (1934)
* ''The Champion of Pontresina
''The Champion of Pontresina'' (german: Der Springer von Pontresina) is a 1934 G ...
as Freddy Hill
*
Erika Glässner
Erika Glässner (28 February 1890 – 21 July 1959) was a German stage and film actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Werner Krafft'' (1916)
* ''Diamonds'' (1920)
* '' The Three Dances of Mary Wilford'' (1920)
* '' The Love Corridor'' (1921)
* ''The ...
as Betsy
*
Hans Richter as Jonny
*
Erna Morena
Erna Morena (born Ernestine Maria Fuchs, 24 April 1885 – 20 July 1962) was a German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951.
Biography
Ernestine Maria Fuchs was born in ...
*
Werner Pledath
Werner Pledath (26 April 1898 – 6 December 1965) was a German actor who appeared in many films during a lengthy career. He generally played supporting roles such as in '' Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932).Youngkin p.465 Pledath specialized in pla ...
*
Josef Dahmen
Josef Dahmen (21 August 1903 – 18 January 1985) was a German stage, film and television actor.Youngkin p. 462.
Dahmen was married to the actress Gisela von Collande, with whom he had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. His granddaughter Julia Dahmen is a ...
*
Ernst Behmer
Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras.
Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kalin ...
*
Erich Dunskus
Erich Adolf Dunskus (27 July 1890 – 25 November 1967) was a German film actor. He appeared in 170 films between 1927 and 1966. He was born in Pillkallen, East Prussia and died in Hagen, Germany.
Selected filmography
* '' The King of Pa ...
*
Oskar Höcker
Oskar Höcker (13 June 1840 – 8 April 1894) was a German author of historical novels for children and a stage actor.
Biography
Oskar Höcker was born in a suburb of Eilenburg, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, as was his brother, author Gu ...
*
Wera Schultz
References
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1935 films
Films of Nazi Germany
1935 romantic comedy films
German black-and-white films
German films based on plays
Films based on works by George Bernard Shaw
Films set in London
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Erich Engel
German romantic comedy films
1930s German films
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