Bernard Shaw
1) Pygmalion
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A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.
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Barbara, an officer in the Salvation Army and daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, gets upset when the Army accepts donations from Undershaft and a whiskey distiller. Regarding the money as tainted, Barbara resigns from her position but soon sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity rises from poverty.
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9) My fair lady
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Features the musical tale of Eliza Doolittle, the scruffy flower girl who is tutored by Professor Henry Higgins and passed off as a Duchess.
18) My fair lady
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Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...