He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly !
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
bet
professor
bath
transformation
tea
etiquette
elocution
based on play or musical
teacher
teacher student relationship
high society
guttersnipe
pygmalion
flower vendor
social class
class system
social reception
mother son relationship
speech lessons
taken for granted
phonetics
quick learner