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Doolittle, Eliza
     
Doolittle, Eliza
a character in the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and in the film My Fair Lady, which is based on Shaw's play. She is a working class London flower seller who is taught by Professor Henry Higgins how to speak and behave like a woman of the highest social class.
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