"Pygmalion" to be Screened on December 4, 2009
1938 Film Regarded as Best Adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Play
ALBANY, NY (11/19/2009)(readMedia)-- "Pygmalion" (United Kingdom, 1938, 96 minutes, b/w, directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard) will be shown on Friday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.
Many critics regard this as the very best of several adaptations of George Bernard Shaw's popular play about a Professor of Phonetics who teaches a Cockney flower girl how to speak. The film received an Oscar for Best Screenplay, and Leslie Howard (Professor Henry Higgins) and Wendy Hiller (Eliza Doolittle) were both nominated for Best Actor/Actress awards.
For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
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