My Fair Lady

George Cukor

Higgins as Pygmalion — Audrey Hepburn's Eliza the living statue speech remakes.

My Fair Lady

Frederick Loewe

Broadway's most famous Pygmalion — the sculptor myth as musical theatre of class and voice.

Pygmalion (play)

George Bernard Shaw

Shaw borrowed the sculptor's name for Higgins — creation as social engineering, Galatea as Eliza.

Pygmalion

The sculptor of Cyprus who loved his statue into life — still the archetype of the artist enamoured of his work.