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Born July 26, 1856 in Dublin. His father, having failed in business, became addicted to alcohol; mother, disappointed in marriage, became interested in singing. Shaw did not learn anything in the schools he attended, but he learned a lot from the books of Ch. paintings in the Irish National Gallery.

At the age of fifteen, Shaw got a job as a clerk in a firm selling land. A year later, he became a cashier and held this position for four years. Unable to overcome his disgust for such work, at the age of twenty he left for London to live with his mother, who, after a divorce from her husband, earned her living by singing lessons.

Shaw, already in his youth, had decided to earn a living by writing, and although the articles sent out returned to him with depressing regularity, he continued to besiege the newsrooms. Only one of his articles was accepted for publication, paying the author fifteen shillings - and this was all that Shaw earned with a pen in nine years. Over the years, he wrote five novels that were rejected by all English publishers.

In 1884, Shaw joined the Fabian Society and soon became one of its most brilliant orators. At the same time, he improved his education in the reading room of the British Museum, where he met the writer W. Archer (1856-1924), who introduced him to journalism. After working for some time as a freelance correspondent, Shaw got a job as a music critic in one of the evening papers. After six years of music reviewing, Shaw worked for three and a half years as theater critic for the Saturday Riviée. During this time, he published books about H. Ibsen and R. Wagner. He also wrote plays (collection Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant - Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, 1898). One of them, Mrs. Warren's Profession (first staged in 1902), was banned by censorship; the other, Let's wait and see (You Never Can Tell, 1895) was rejected after several rehearsals; the third, Weapons and Man ( Arms and the Man, 1894), no one understood at all. In addition to those named, the collection includes the plays of Candida (Candida, 1895), The Man of Destiny (1897), the Widower's Houses (1892) and the Heartthrob ( The Philanderer, 1893). Staged in America by R. Mansfield, The Devil's Disciple (1897) is Shaw's first play, which was a box office success.

Shaw wrote plays, wrote reviews, acted as a street speaker promoting socialist ideas, and, in addition, was a member of the St. Pancras Borough Council, where he lived. Such overloads led to a sharp deterioration in health, and if not for the care and care of Charlotte Payne-Townsend, whom he married in 1898, things could have ended badly. During a protracted illness, Shaw wrote the plays of Caesar and Cleopatra (Caesar and Cleopatra, 1899) and the Appeal of Captain Brassbound (Captain Brassbound's Conversion, 1900), which the writer himself called "a religious treatise." Brasbound were published in the collection Three Plays for Puritans In Caesar and Cleopatra, Shaw's first play to feature real historical figures, the traditional notion of hero and heroine is changed beyond recognition.

Not having succeeded in the path of commercial theater, Shaw decided to make the drama the vehicle of his philosophy, publishing in 1903 the play Man and Superman (Man and Superman). However, the following year, his time came. The young actor H. Granville-Barker (1877-1946), together with the entrepreneur J. E. Vedrennom, took over the leadership of the London Theater "Court" and opened the season, the success of which was ensured by old and new plays Shaw - Candida, Let's wait and see, John Bull's Other Island (John Bull's Other Island, 1904), Man and Superman, Major Barbara (Major Barbara, 1905) and The Doctor's Dilemma (1906).

Shaw now decided to write plays entirely devoid of action. The first of these play-discussions, Marriage (Getting Married, 1908), had some success among intellectuals, the second, Misalliance (Misalliance, 1910), was difficult for them. Having given up, Shaw wrote an openly box office trifle - Fanny's First Play (1911), which went on the stage of a small theater for almost two years. Then, as if recouping for this concession to the taste of the crowd, Shaw created a genuine masterpiece - Androclus and lion (Androcles and the Lion, 1913), followed by the play Pygmalion (Pygmalion, 1914), staged by G. Beerbom-Three at His Majesty's Theater with Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle.

During World War I, Shaw was an exceptionally unpopular figure. The press, the public, colleagues showered him with insults, and meanwhile he calmly finished the play Heartbreak House (Heartbreak House, 1921) and prepared his testament to the human race - Back to Methuselah (Back to Methuselah, 1923), where he dressed in a dramatic form their evolutionary ideas. In 1924, fame returned to the writer, he gained worldwide recognition with the drama of St. John (Saint Joan). In Shaw's eyes, Jeanne d'Arc is a herald of Protestantism and nationalism, and therefore the verdict handed down to her by the medieval church and the feudal system is quite natural. In 1925, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he refused to receive.

The last play that brought Shaw success was The Apple Cart (1929), which opened the Malvern Festival in honor of the playwright.

In years when most people had no time to travel, Shaw visited the USA, the USSR, South Africa, India, New Zealand. In Moscow, where Shaw arrived with Lady Astor, he spoke with Stalin. When the Labor Party, for which the playwright had done so much, came to power, he was offered the nobility and a peerage, but he refused everything. At the age of ninety, the writer nevertheless agreed to become an honorary citizen of Dublin and the London district of St. Pancras, where he lived in his younger years.

Shaw's wife died in 1943. The remaining years the writer spent in seclusion in Ayot-St. Until the end of his days, the writer retained clarity of mind. Shaw died at Ayot St. Lawrence on November 2, 1950.

George Bernard Shaw is a great Irish-born playwright, Nobel Prize winner in literature, author of many plays and several novels.

Childhood and youth

The future playwright was born in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, in 1856. Father John Shaw traded in grain, but soon went bankrupt and gradually became addicted to drinking. Mother Lucinda Shaw was a professional singer. In addition to Bernard, two more children grew up in the family, the girls Lucinda Frances and Eleanor Agnes.

As a child, the boy attended Dublin Wesley College, and from the age of eleven, a Protestant school, where special attention was paid not to the exact sciences, but to the spiritual development of children. At the same time, the shepherds did not disdain physical punishment and beat the children with rods, which, as it was then believed, only benefited them.

Young Bernard hated school and the entire education system as he saw it from school. Subsequently, he recalled that he was one of the worst, if not the last student in the class.

At the age of fifteen, Shaw took a job as a clerk in a real estate office. The parents did not have the money to pay for their son's college education, but family ties helped the young man to take a good position at that time. His duties, among other things, included collecting money for housing from the poor. Memories of this difficult time are reflected in one of the "unpleasant plays" called "Widower's House".

When the young man was sixteen, his mother, having taken both daughters, left her father and left for London. Bernard stayed with his father in Dublin, pursuing a career in real estate. Four years later, in 1876, Shaw nevertheless went to his mother in London, where he educated himself and got a job in one of the capital's newspapers.

Creation

At first, upon arrival in London, Bernard Shaw visited libraries and museums, filling in the gaps in his education. The playwright's mother earned a living by giving singing lessons, and her son plunged headlong into social and political problems.

In 1884, Shaw joined the Fabian Society, named after the Roman general Fabius. Fabius defeated his enemies thanks to slowness, caution and the ability to wait. The main idea of ​​the Fabians was that socialism was the only possible type of further development of Great Britain, but the country had to come to it gradually, without cataclysms and revolutions.

In the same period, in the British Museum, Bernard Shaw met the writer Archer, after talking with whom the future playwright decided to try his hand at journalism. He first worked as a freelance correspondent, then worked as a music critic for the London World magazine for six years, after which he wrote a theater column for the Saturday Review for three years.

Simultaneously with journalism, Shaw began to write novels, which at that time no one undertook to publish. Between 1879 and 1883 Bernard Shaw wrote five novels, the first of which was not published until 1886. Subsequently, critics, after analyzing the first literary experiments of Bernard Shaw, came to the conclusion that they showed bright features inherent in the further work of the playwright: brief descriptions of situations and dialogues saturated with paradoxes.

When he was a theater critic, Shaw became interested in the work of the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen. In 1891, he published the book The Quintessence of Ibsenism, in which he singled out the main characteristics of the plays of the Scandinavian playwright. In the days of Shaw's youth, only plays dominated the theatrical stage, as well as minor melodramas and comedies. Ibsen, according to Shaw, became a real innovator in European dramaturgy, raising it to a new level by revealing sharp conflicts and discussions between characters.

Inspired by the plays of Ibsen, in 1885 Bernard Shaw wrote the first of his "unpleasant plays" called The Widower's House. It is believed that Shaw's biography as a playwright writer began with this work. A new era of European drama was also born here, sharp, topical, built on conflicts and dialogues, and not on the active actions of the characters.

This was followed by the plays "Red tape" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession", which literally blew up stiff Victorian England with their undisguised topicality, caustic satire and truthfulness. The protagonist of "Mrs. Warren's Profession" is a prostitute who earns a living by an ancient craft and is not going to give up this way of earning income.

The opposite of this corrupt woman in the play is her daughter. The girl, having learned about the source of her mother's income, leaves home to honestly earn her own bread. In this work, Shaw clearly manifested the reformist nature of creativity, raising topics new to English literature and theater, acute and topical, political and social. Bernard Shaw complements the genre of realistic drama with subtle humor and satire, thanks to which his plays acquire extraordinary appeal and power of presentation.

Having created an unprecedented precedent for those times with his "unpleasant plays", Shaw released a series of "pleasant plays": "Arms and a Man", "The Chosen One of Fate", "Wait and see", "Candida".

"Pygmalion" is one of the plays by Bernard Shaw, a capacious, multifaceted and complex thing, which is devoted to many books and scientific monographs. In the center of the story is the fate of the poor flower seller Eliza Doolittle and the wealthy, noble society gentleman Higgins. The latter wants to make a lady of high society out of a flower girl, just as the mythical Pygmalion created his Galatea from a piece of marble.

The amazing transformation of Eliza helps to reveal spiritual qualities, innate kindness, nobility of a simple flower girl. A comic dispute between two gentlemen threatens to turn into a tragedy for a girl whose inner beauty they did not see

The next significant work of the playwright was the play "House where hearts break", written after the First World War. Shaw unequivocally accused the English intelligentsia and the cream of society of having plunged the country and all of Europe into an abyss of devastation and horror. In this work, the influence of Ibsen on the work of Shaw is clearly traced. The satirical drama takes on the features of the grotesque, allegory and symbolism.

The war further confirmed Bernard Shaw in his commitment to the ideas of socialism. Until the end of his days, he continued to believe that socialist Russia is an example for the entire civilized world, and that the social and political system of the USSR is the only true and correct one. Towards the end of his life, Shaw became an ideological supporter of the Stalinist regime and even visited the USSR in 1931.

For a short time, the playwright was inclined to think that only a dictator could restore order in society and the country, but after coming to power in Germany, he abandoned this idea.

In 1923, the world saw the best, according to critics and admirers of the work of Bernard Shaw, the play "Saint Joan", dedicated to the life, deeds and martyrdom of Joan of Arc. The subsequent plays "Bitter but True", "Aground", "Millionaire", "Geneva" and others did not receive public recognition during the author's lifetime.

After the death of Bernard Shaw, dramas were staged by theaters of different countries, they are still on the stage today, and some works have found a new life in cinema. So, in 1974, the film “Millionairess” based on the play of the same name was released in the Soviet Union, which was a resounding success. The roles were performed by V. Osenev and other actors.

Personal life

In 1898, Bernard Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townsend, whom the writer met in the Fabian Society. The girl was a rich heiress, but Bernard was not interested in her millions. In 1925, he even refused to receive the award, and the British ambassador Arthur Duff had to receive the money. Subsequently, these funds were spent on creating a fund for translators.

With Charlotte Bernard Shaw lived in perfect harmony for forty-five years, until her death. They didn't have children. Of course, marriage isn't always perfect, and there have been fights between Shaw and his wife.

So, it was rumored that the writer was in love with the famous actress Stella Patrick Campbell, for whom he wrote "Pigmalion", inventing the lovely Eliza Doolittle.

Death

The playwright spent the second half of his life in Hertfordshire, where he and Charlotte had a cozy two-story house surrounded by greenery. The writer lived and worked there from 1906 to 1950, until his death.

Towards the end of his life, losses began to haunt the writer one after another. In 1940, Stella died, his unspoken lover, who reciprocated the playwright. In 1943, the faithful Charlotte passed away. The last months of his life, Bernard was bedridden. He bravely met his death, remaining conscious to the end. Bernard Shaw passed away on November 2, 1950. According to the will of the writer, his body was cremated, and the ashes were scattered along with the ashes of his beloved wife.

Quotes and aphorisms

• If you have an apple and I have an apple, and if we exchange these apples, then you and I have one apple each. And if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
• The greatest sin in relation to one's neighbor is not hatred, but indifference; this is truly the pinnacle of inhumanity.
• An ideal husband is a man who believes that he has an ideal wife.
• Those who can do it, those who can't, teach others.

Bibliography

• "Immaturity (1879);
• "The Irrational Knot" (1880);
• "Love Among the Artists" (1881);
• "Profession of Cashel Byron" (1882);
• "Not a Social Socialist" (1882).

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on 26 July 1856 to George Shaw, a grain merchant, and Lucinda Shaw, a professional singer. He had two sisters: Lucinda Frances, a theater singer, and Eleanor Agnes, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 21.

Shaw attended Wesley College Dublin and Grammar School. He received his secondary education in Dublin. At the age of eleven, he was sent to a Protestant school, where he was, in his own words, the penultimate or last student. He called school the most harmful stage of his education: "It never occurred to me to prepare lessons or tell the truth to this universal enemy and executioner - the teacher." The education system was repeatedly criticized by Shaw for focusing on mental rather than spiritual development. The author especially criticized the system of physical punishment at school. At fifteen, he became a clerk. The family did not have the means to send him to university, but his uncle's connections helped him get a job at Townsend's fairly well-known real estate agency. One of Shaw's duties was to collect rent from the inhabitants of the Dublin slums, and the sad impressions of these years were subsequently embodied in Widower's Houses. He was, in all likelihood, a fairly capable clerk, although the monotony of this work bored him. He learned to keep books of account neatly, as well as to write in a quite legible handwriting. Everything written in Shaw's handwriting (even in advanced years) was easy and pleasant to read. This served Shaw well later on when he became a professional writer: grief typesetters did not know with his manuscripts. When Shaw was 16, his mother ran away from home with her lover and daughters. Bernard decided to stay with his father in Dublin. He received an education and became an employee in a real estate office. He did this job for several years, although he did not like it.

In 1876 Shaw went to live with his mother in London. The family welcomed him very warmly. During this time, he visited public libraries and museums. He began to work hard in libraries and created his first works, and later led a newspaper column dedicated to music. However, his early novels were not successful until 1885, when he became known as a creative critic.

In the first half of the 1890s he worked as a critic for the London World, where he was succeeded by Robert Hichens.

At the same time, he became interested in social democratic ideas and joined the Fabian Society, whose goal is to establish socialism through peaceful means. In this society he met his future wife, Charlotte Paine-Townshend, whom he married in 1898. Bernard Shaw had connections on the side.

In recent years, the playwright lived in his own house and died at the age of 94 from kidney failure. His body was cremated and his ashes scattered along with those of his wife.

THE GEORGE BERNARD SHOW(1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw - English playwright of Irish origin, one of the founders of the "drama of ideas", writer, essayist, one of the reformers of theatrical art of the 20th century, after Shakespeare the second most popular playwright in the English theater, Nobel Prize in Literature, winner of the award "Oscar".
He was born in Irish Dublin on July 26, 1956. The future writer's childhood years were overshadowed by his father's addiction to alcohol, strife between his parents. Like all children, Bernard went to school, but learned the main life lessons from the books he read and the music he listened to. In 1871, after graduating from school, he began working in a company selling land. A year later, he took the position of cashier, but four years later, hating work, he moved to London: his mother lived there, having divorced her father. From a young age, Shaw saw himself as a writer, but the articles he sent to various editorial offices were not published. For 9 years, only 15 shillings - a fee for a single article - was earned by him by writing, although during this period he wrote as many as 5 novels.
In 1884, B. Shaw joined the Fabian Society and after a short time gained fame as a talented orator. Visiting the reading room of the British Museum for the purpose of self-education, he met W. Archer and, thanks to him, became involved in journalism. After first working as a freelance correspondent, Shaw worked as a music critic for six years, and then worked for the Saturday Review as a theater critic for three and a half years. The reviews written by him made up the three-volume collection “Our Theater of the Nineties”, published in 1932. In 1891, Shaw’s original creative manifesto was published - a lengthy article “The Quintessence of Ibsenism”, the author of which showed a critical attitude towards contemporary aesthetics and sympathy for the drama that illuminated conflicts of a social nature.
His debut in the field of drama was the plays "Widower's House" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1892 and 1893, respectively). They were intended to be staged in an independent theatre, which was a closed club, so Shaw could afford the courage to display aspects of life that his contemporary art usually bypassed. These and other works were included in the cycle "Unpleasant Plays". In the same year, “Pleasant Plays” were also released, and the “representatives” of this cycle began to penetrate the stage of large metropolitan theaters in the late 90s. The first huge success was brought by The Devil's Disciple written in 1897, which was part of the third cycle - Plays for the Puritans.
The playwright's finest hour came in 1904, when the leadership of the Kord Theater changed and included a number of his plays in the repertoire - in particular, Candida, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, and others. the reputation of the author, who boldly manages with public morality and traditional ideas about history, subverts what was considered an axiom, was established. The contribution to the golden treasury of drama was the resounding success of Pygmalion (1913).
During the First World War, Bernard Shaw had to listen to a lot of unflattering words and direct insults addressed to him by the audience, fellow writers, newspapers and magazines. Nevertheless, he continued to write, and in 1917 a new stage began in his creative biography. The tragedy "Saint Joan", staged in 1924, returned B. Shaw to its former glory, and in 1925 he became the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and refuses its monetary component.
Over the age of 70 in the 30s. The show goes on a trip around the world, visits India, South Africa, New Zealand, the USA. He also visited the USSR in 1931, in July of that year he personally met with Stalin. Being a socialist, Shaw sincerely welcomed the changes taking place in the country of the Soviets and turned into a supporter of Stalinism. After the Labor Party came to power, B. Shaw was offered a peerage and nobility, but he refused. Later, he agreed to the status of an honorary citizen of Dublin and one of the London districts.
B. Shaw wrote to a ripe old age. The last plays, "Billions of Bayant" and "Fictitious Fables", he wrote in 1948 and 1950. Remaining completely sane, on November 2, 1950, the famous playwright died.
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Years of life: from 07/26/1856 to 11/02/1950

Outstanding Irish and English writer, prose writer, playwright, music and theater critic, public figure. The second most popular (after Shakespeare) English-speaking playwright. He made an invaluable contribution to English and world dramaturgy. Nobel Prize Laureate. He is also known for his wit and adherence to socialist views.

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin. Shaw's father, a civil servant, decided to go into the grain trade. but burned out and became addicted to alcohol. The writer's mother was a singer and amateur musician. The boy studied first at home, and then in Catholic and Protestant day schools, after which, at the age of sixteen, he got a job as a clerk in a real estate agency, where he worked for four years. In 1873 Shaw's parents divorced and his mother moved to London. Three years later, Bernard joined them, deciding to become a writer. However, all of his articles were returned by the editors, and none of Shaw's five novels was published. At this time, the writer was entirely dependent on the meager earnings of his mother, who gave music lessons. In 1882, Shaw turned to social problems and became a convinced socialist. In 1884, the playwright joined the Fabian Society, created to spread socialist ideas. Shaw became an extremely active member of the society, often lecturing three times a week. At the same time, Shaw met the theater critic W. Archer, on whose recommendation Shaw became first a freelance correspondent, and then the author of musical and theater reviews (since 1886) in such publications as the weekly "World" ("World"), "Pall Mall newspapers" ("Pall Mall Gazette"), the newspaper "Star" ("Star"). Shaw's critical writings brought him popularity and financial independence. In 1895, Mr.. Shaw became a theater critic in the London magazine "Saturday Review" ("Saturday Review"). Shaw is becoming more and more interested in the theater, writes several works about G. Ibsen and R. Wagner, and in 1892 the first play of Shaw "Widower's Houses" ("Widowers" Houses ") was staged. The play was not successful and was withdrawn after two performances Several subsequent plays by the playwright also turned out to be invaluable, the directors refused to stage them, and “Mrs Warren's Profession” was even banned by censors (the play is about prostitution). The show publishes its work at its own expense. In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne Townsend, an Irish philanthropist and socialist who gave him considerable support. Fame came to the playwright in 1904, when his plays became the basis of the repertoire of the London Royal Court Theater, where they were staged by D. Vedrenn and Harley Grenville-Barker who filmed this theatre. For three seasons (1904-07), almost all of the playwright's most significant plays were played at the Royal Court Theater. Simultaneously with Shaw’s confession, accusations of “insufficient seriousness” and buffoonery begin to sound, in particular, the playwright L.N. Tolstoy. Shaw himself writes plays more and more "serious", imbued with philosophical ideas and therefore less and less popular with the public. During the years of the First World War, Shaw's anti-war views (which he did not hesitate to express) caused the playwright's sharp rejection by most of the press and colleagues. After his essay "War from the point of view of common sense", in which the playwright criticizes both England and Germany, calls on both countries to negotiate, ridiculing blind patriotism, Shaw was expelled from the Dramatists' Club. In the 20s of the XX century, Shaw's works were again are becoming popular. During this time Shaw's most controversial and complex play, "Back to Methuselah" ("Back to Methuselah", 1922), was written, as well as the only tragedy in his repertoire: "Saint Joan" ("Saint Joan", 1924), about Jeanne D'Arc. In 1926, the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1925 was awarded to Shaw "for a work marked by idealism and humanism, for sparkling satire, which is often combined with exceptional poetic beauty." Being a principled opponent of all kinds of prizes, Shaw refused the monetary part of the Nobel Prize, ordering the establishment of an Anglo-Swedish literary fund for translators, especially Strindberg's translators, with this money. In 1928, Shaw released The Smart Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism ( "The Intelligent Woman" s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism") - a discourse on political and economic topics. And in 1931, the playwright visited the USSR and met with Stalin. Shaw remained a staunch socialist throughout his life and strongly supported the USSR, considering it a prototype Shaw's wife died in 1943. After that, the playwright moved from London to his home in Hertfordshire, where he spent the rest of his life in seclusion.Shaw died on November 2, 1950 at the age of 94

The correct pronunciation of the surname Shaw is “Sho”, however, the pronunciation “Show” has become entrenched in the Russian-speaking tradition.

Of the 988 performances played at the Royal Court Theater between 1904 and 1907, 701 were based on Shaw's works.

In response to the phrase “The show is a clown”, V.I. Lenin said: "In a bourgeois state, he may be a clown for the bourgeoisie, but in a revolution he would not be mistaken for a clown."

B. Shaw became the first writer to refuse the Nobel Prize.

B. Shaw is the only person to have received both the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Oscar at the same time.

Possessing an excellent sense of humor and a tenacious mind, Shaw became the author of many aphorisms.

Writer's Awards

(1925)
Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1938)

Bibliography

Cycle "Unpleasant Plays"
Widower's Houses (1885-1892)
Heartbreaker (1893)
Profession of Mrs. Warren (1893-1894)

Cycle "Pleasant Plays"
Arms and Man (1894)
Candida (1894-1895)
Destiny's Chosen One (1895)
Let's wait and see (1895-1896)

Cycle "Three Pieces for the Puritans"
The Devil's Disciple (1896-1897)
(1898)
Conversion of Captain Brasbound (1899)

Magnificent Bashvil, or Unrewarded Constancy" (1901)
Man and Superman (1901-1903)
John Bull's Other Island (1904)
How he lied to her husband (1904)
Major Barbara (1906)
The Physician in a Dilemma (1906)
Interlude in the Theater (1907)
Marriage (1908)
Exposing Blanco Posnet (1909)

Cycle "Tomfoolery and trinkets"
Passion, Poison, Petrification, or Fatal Gasogen (1905)
Newspaper clippings (1909)
Charming Foundling (1909)
A Bit of Reality (1909)

The number of productions of Shaw's plays is incalculable. The list of adaptations of the playwright's works on the Kinopoisk website includes 62 films and television films.
The most famous screen adaptations are:
Pygmalion (1938, UK) dir. E. Esquith, L. Howard. B. Shaw became the author of the script and received an Oscar for it.
My Fair Lady (1964, USA) dir. J. Cukor. Adaptation of the play Pygmalion. The film received 8 Oscars, including the main award "Best Film".

Domestic film adaptations:
How he lied to her husband (1956) dir. T. Berezantseva
Pygmalion (1957) dir. S. Alekseev
Galatea (1977) dir. A. Belinsky. Film-ballet based on the play "Pygmalion".
Mournful insensibility (1986) dir. A. Sokurov. Fantasy film based on the play Heartbreak House