Gabriel Pascal (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Gabriel Pascal

Looking for reviews of films directed by Gabriel Pascal? Cinafilm has a total of 40 reviews across 2 movies directed by Gabriel Pascal.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 61%.

Major Barbara is Gabriel Pascal's highest rated movie, with a score of 63% based on 9 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Gabriel Pascal is Caesar and Cleopatra, with a score of 60% based on 31 reviews.

Director Biography

Gabriel Pascal (4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian film producer and director.

Born 1894 in Arad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro–Hungarian Empire, Pascal was the first film producer to bring the plays of George Bernard Shaw successfully to the screen. His most famous production was Pygmalion, for which Pascal himself received an Academy Award nomination as its producer. Pygmalion was later adapted by Lerner and Loewe into the musical My Fair Lady. Pascal had tried to convince Shaw to let Pygmalion be turned into a musical, but the outraged Shaw explicitly forbade it, having had a bad experience with the operetta The Chocolate Soldier, based on Shaw's Arms and the Man. Pascal died in 1954, and it was not until 1956 that Pygmalion became My Fair Lady.

Gabriel Pascal has directed films starring Stanley Holloway, Charles Victor, Felix Aylmer and Kathleen Harrison.