Films

May, 1956

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, a favorite of ours ever since we essayed the role of Third Bystander in an obscure 1950 production (whereupon Shaw up and died), is now a musical comedy. We rather expected the bust of G.B.S. on our office mantelpiece to glower at this news, but the stony eyes seem to be twinkling instead, for My Fair Lady (the musical under discussion) is a bright bit of work.Shaw's story of a lowly Cockney girl who is transmuted into a fine lady by a persistent professor of spe...