Scenes from Pygmalion written by the British playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and opened at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on April 11, 1914, featuring Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle, Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle and Sir Herbert Tree as Professor Higgins.
This Sketch dubbed it Bernard Shaw's 'naughty word play' as Eliza utters the word "bloody" which had never been used on the stage.
Pygmalion, His Majesty's Theatre, 1914
Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle, Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza and Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Professor Henry Higgins in the first London run of Pygmalion, at His Majesty's theatre in 1914
Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in 'Pygmalion'. In 1914, she played Eliza Doolittle in the original West End London
1914 photos of Mrs. Pat as Eliza Doolittle. She was wearing the costume on the right (in Act III) when Eliza shocked London by uttering the phrase, “not bloody likely!”
A Sketch Magazine illustration of Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle from 22 April 1914. Shaw wrote the part of Eliza expressly for Campbell, who played opposite Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Henry Higgins.