Oscar-winning film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.   This wonderful, Oscar-winning film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney waif Higgins intends to transform into a ‘proper lady’. ‘One of the most heartening and adult British films of the thirties’ – Halliwell’s Film Guide