April 11, 2014

Pygmalion at 100: George Bernard Shaw’s classic – in pictures

On the 100th anniversary of Pygmalion's opening night in London, revisit some of the play's classic stage and screen productions, including My Fair Lady!

Pygmalion: Pygmalion, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's His Majesty's Theatre, 1914 — Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle, Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza and Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Professor Henry Higgins in the first London run of Pygmalion, at His Majesty's theatre in 1914 Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty

Pygmalion: Shaw's Corner — George Bernard Shaw in the garden of his country home in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire. He wrote Pygmalion in 1912 and it was first staged in Vienna Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty

Pygmalion: Raymond Massey and Gertrude Lawrence at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1945 — Raymond Massey and Gertrude Lawrence in the Broadway production at the Ethel Barrymore theatre, which opened on Boxing Day in 1945 and ran for 179 performances Photograph: Alamy

Pygmalion: Julie Andrews, Robert Coote and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady — Julie Andrews, centre, with Rex Harrison in Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady, based on Pygmalion. It opened on Broadway in 1956 and ran for 2717 performances Photograph: Leonard McCombe/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Pygmalion: 1964, MY FAIR LADY — Rex Harrison also starred in the 1964 film of My Fair Lady, this time opposite Audrey Hepburn Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/WARNER BROS

Pygmalion: Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison on the set of My Fair Lady — Hepburn and Harrison in My Fair Lady, which won eight Oscars Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis

Pygmalion: Diana Rigg in a production of Pygmalion at the Albery Theatre, 1974 — Diana Rigg as Eliza in a production of Pygmalion at the Albery theatre, 1974. Thirty-seven years later she played Mrs Higgins in another West End revival of the play Photograph: Marvin Lichtner/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Pygmalion: Peter O'Toole as Professor Higgins and Jackie Smith-Wood as Eliza — Peter O'Toole as Professor Higgins and Jackie Smith-Wood as Eliza at the Shaftesbury theatre, 1984 Photograph: Donald Cooper/Rex Features

Pygmalion: Peter Bowles and Fiona Fullerton in Pygmalion in Chichester, 1994 — Peter Bowles and Fiona Fullerton in Pygmalion in Chichester, 1994 Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Pygmalion: Actors Carli Norris and Roy Marsden — Roy Marsden and Carli Norris in Pygmalion at the Albery theatre, 1997 Photograph: Robbie Jack/Corbis

Pygmalion: Boyd Gaines and Claire Danes on the opening night of Pygmalion — Boyd Gaines and Claire Danes, in her Broadway debut, on the opening night of a 2007 revival of Pygmalion Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images

Pygmalion: Michelle Dockery (Eliza Doolittle) in Pygmalion — Michelle Dockery as Eliza in Pygmalion directed by Peter Hall in a 'near-perfect' four-star production at the Old Vic in London in 2008 Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Pygmalion: Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre, 2011 — Roberta Taylor as Mrs Pearce, Kara Tointon as Eliza, Rupert Everett as Henry Higgins and Peter Eyre as Colonel Pickering at the Garrick theatre's Pygmalion in 2011 Photograph: Robbie Jack/Corbis

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