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Higgins, Professor Henry
     
Higgins, Professor Henry
a character in the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and in the film My Fair Lady, which is based on Shaw's play, who teaches a poor girl called Eliza Doolittle how to speak and behave like an upper-class lady.
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