In Greek mythology, Pygmalion, the king of Cyprus, found so much fault in womankind that he resolved to live unmarried. But after painstakingly sculpting a statue of a beautiful woman that he named...
I think you must mean the 1964 movie "My Fair Lady. " The two main characters are Professor Henry Higgins (played by Rex Harrison) and Eliza Doolittle (played by Audrey Hepburn).
In the mid-1930s, film producer Gabriel Pascal acquired the rights to produce film versions of several of George Bernard Shaw's plays, Pygmalion among them. However, Shaw, having had a bad experience...