Pygmalion (mythology) has earned many accolades. Madhu Rye adapted "Pygmalion" in Gujarati as "Santu Rangili" (1976) which was successful. Pygmalion (mythology) Pygmalion (; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων "Pugmalíōn", "gen".: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though "Pygmalion" is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name "Pumayyaton", he is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem "Metamorphoses", in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. In Ovid's narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides he was "not interested in women", but his
Pygmalion (1938 film) controversial line "Not bloody likely!" from the playtext, making Hiller possibly the first person to utter that swear word in a British film and giving rise to adverts for the film reading "Miss Pygmalion? Not ****** likely!". Wendy Hiller was chosen by Shaw to play Eliza Doolittle after she had appeared in stage productions of "Pygmalion" and "Saint Joan" – though the film's initial credits stated that this movie was introducing her, she had in fact already appeared on film in 1937's "Lancashire Luck". Shaw's choice for Higgins had been Charles Laughton. The movie also includes the very first film