Cinema 100 - DOUBLE FEATURE: "Jezebel" & "Pygmalion"

Ep 71 "Pygmalion" Release Date: October 6th, 1938 Directed By: Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard"Jezebel" Release Date: March 26th, 1938Directed By: William Wyler Pretty Woman and Gone Girl have almost nothing in common… except Hollywood was making versions of both stories way back in 1938.In Pygmalion, a man takes a working-class woman and decides he can transform her into someone society will accept—a premise that would eventually become My Fair Lady and echo through countless modern romantic comedies.Then there’s Jezebel, where Bette Davis plays a fiercely independent woman whose pride, jealousy, and obsession turn her into the kind of complicated female character we’d expect from modern psychological dramas.Different stories. Different worlds. But somehow, 1938 got there first. So let’s go back nearly 90 years and see how Jezebel and Pygmalion still feel surprisingly familiar today.