final scene of pygmalion (1938) with leslie howard as higgins and wendy hillier as eliza. howard always annoyed me as sad-eyed ashley wilkes - i mean, who would ever chose him instead of rhett, please. but as higgins, i just love him…the character was always made so much less appealing to me because of rex harrison’s performance. i realize the difficulty of not wanting to give into the higgins more when watching mr howard here - if i were transformed eliza i would never leave 10 wimpole street - freddy sucks anyway. i love the expression on his face when she comes back in at the very end. love it.
