Pygmalion

Pygmalion (1938) — the non-musical film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play

Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a lady within three months. To do so, he must transform her thick-accented voice, by coaching her to speak proper English, teaching her manners, and drilling her so she will be educated. “We were above that in Convent Garden… I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me; I'm not fit to sell anything else.” “I'm a good girl, I am.”

At a tea party, in her first public testing, she blurts out, “Not bloody likely.” However, she makes a spectacular debut at a society ball proving him right. The movie drastically diverges from Shaw's play at the end by indicating that Higgins falls in love with Eliza. This is really not a love story.