Leslie Howard — Director (3)
Pygmalion (1939) [Movie] TMDB
Pygmalion
director: Anthony Asquith / Leslie Howard actor: Leslie Howard / Wendy Hiller
other title: Pigmalione / Der Roman eines Blumenmädchens
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.
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
"Pimpernel" Smith
director: Leslie Howard actor: Leslie Howard / Francis L. Sullivan
other title: La Primula Smith / O Professor Smith
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.