Playwright George Bernard Shaw adamantly opposed any notion that Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle had fallen in love and would marry at the end of the play, as he felt it would betray the character of Eliza who, as in the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, would "come to life" and emancipate herself from the male domination of Higgins and her father. He even went so far as to include a lengthy essay to be published with copies of the script explaining precisely why Higgins and Eliza would never marry, and what "actually happened" after the curtain fell: Eliza married Freddy Eynsford-Hill and opened a flower shop with funds from Colonel Hugh Pickering. Also, as Shaw biographers have noted, Higgins is meant to be an analogue of the playwright himself, thus suggesting Higgins was actually a homosexual. Under heavy pressure from producers, for Pigmalione (1938), Shaw wrote a compromise ending, in which Eliza and Henry reconcile, but Eliza still leaves to marry Freddy. This was later changed without Shaw's knowledge nor permission to a conclusion in which Eliza returns to Higgins and supposedly marries him. It is that ending that is used in this movie.

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