Professor Henry Higgins

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fictional character phonetics professor protagonist

Professor Henry Higgins is a brilliant but arrogant phonetics expert who attempts to transform a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady in the musical film "My Fair Lady."

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Henry Higgins 3
Professor Henry Higgins canonical 3

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instanceOf fictional character ⓘ
phonetics professor ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ
adaptedInto My Fair Lady (1956 stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ
My Fair Lady (1964 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ
appearsIn My Fair Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pygmalion NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith Alfred P. Doolittle NERFINISHED ⓘ
Colonel Pickering NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mrs. Pearce NERFINISHED ⓘ
Professor Zoltan Karpathy NERFINISHED ⓘ
attemptsToTransform Eliza Doolittle NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOn Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterArc develops emotional attachment to Eliza Doolittle NERFINISHED ⓘ
createdBy George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ
famousSong I’m an Ordinary Man NERFINISHED ⓘ
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face NERFINISHED ⓘ
Why Can’t the English? NERFINISHED ⓘ
filmAdaptation My Fair Lady (1964 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstAppearance Pygmalion (1913 play) NERFINISHED ⓘ
gender male ⓘ
genre romantic comedy ⓘ
goal transform a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady ⓘ
inspiredBy mythological figure Pygmalion ⓘ
languageSpoken English ⓘ
makesWagerWith Colonel Pickering NERFINISHED ⓘ
medium musical film ⓘ
stage musical ⓘ
nationality British ⓘ
notableQuote I’ve grown accustomed to her face. ⓘ
occupation linguist ⓘ
phonetics expert ⓘ
personalityTrait arrogant ⓘ
blunt ⓘ
brilliant ⓘ
eccentric ⓘ
portrayedBy Rex Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ
residence London, England ⓘ
surface form: London

Wimpole Street NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingOfActivity Higgins’s laboratory ⓘ
socialClass upper middle class ⓘ
specialization English accents ⓘ
phonetics ⓘ
speech training ⓘ
student Eliza Doolittle NERFINISHED ⓘ
teaches proper pronunciation ⓘ
upper-class English accent ⓘ
workOfFictionType musical theatre ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

My Fair Lady (film) → character → Professor Henry Higgins ⓘ
Leslie Howard Steiner → portrayed → Professor Henry Higgins ⓘ
Pygmalion (1938 film) → character → Professor Henry Higgins ⓘ
this entity surface form: Henry Higgins
Eliza Doolittle → mentor → Professor Henry Higgins ⓘ
this entity surface form: Henry Higgins
Eliza Doolittle → studentOf → Professor Henry Higgins ⓘ
this entity surface form: Henry Higgins
Pygmalion → character → Professor Henry Higgins ⓘ