It took me a while to get to this one - primarily because I'm just not a big fan of these 1930's English dramas, and because it was out of print but in the public domain
What we have here is a film adaption of a George Bernard Shaw play just a year before the start of WWII. It actually ended up turning out to be a fairly entertaining story that I appreciated watching. The theme of someone being pulled up or turned into someone they're not is a pretty common one - (Pretty Woman, Trading Places, She's All That) and in this one, we have two upper class Englishmen working to turn a Cockney flower girl into a Duchess. The Scene at the ball has some of the most delicious tension I've ever seen in a film as they attempt to ascertain if they've been successful :)
The DVD is out of print but there are some public domain copies out there on youtube although this one seems much cleaner than those.
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