Pygmalion (6)

I really don't know what impulse made me choose this ancient film from 1938, but it's supposedly such a famous story and film that I probably reasoned that I should. Maybe something like when you decide to something out of the ordinary, like go to an opera for the very first time, just to see what it is like. (Though, I've never been to an opera.) I give this a 6 (it wasn't bad, it was ok).

The story of Eliza Doolittle, a Coventry flower girl, being trained in speech and manner by Professor Henry Higgins to win a bet that she could be transformed into a "lady", has been told many many times before, and since. The most interesting portion is what happens after she's succeeded - return to the street, marry off, stay with Higgins?

The film quality is very poor in parts, the sounds is clear (has it been dubbed?) but most interesting to me was the language. It was probably hammed up for the film, but included many gems such as:
"Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these noble columns, you incarnate insult to the English language, I can pass you off as the Queen of Sheba"
"You might marry you know. You're not bad looking. Quite a pleasure to look at you sometimes. Course now you've been crying you look as ugly as the very devil. When you're quite alright and yourself, you're what I'd call quite attractive - that is, to people of marrying mind you understand."