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===Film=== [[Image:Pygmalion-1938.jpg|thumb|right|[[Scott Sunderland (actor)|Scott Sunderland]], [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]] and Wendy Hiller in ''[[Pygmalion (1938 film)|Pygmalion]]'' (1938)]] At Shaw's insistence, she starred as [[Eliza Doolittle]] in the film ''[[Pygmalion (1938 film)|Pygmalion]]'' (1938) with [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]] as Professor Higgins. This performance earned Hiller her first [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nomination, a first for a British actress in a British film, and became one of her best-remembered roles. She was also the first actress to utter the word "bloody" in a British film, when Eliza utters the line "Not bloody likely, I'm going in a taxi!" Hiller followed up this success with another Shaw adaptation, ''[[Major Barbara (film)|Major Barbara]]'' (1941) with [[Rex Harrison]] and Robert Morley. [[Powell and Pressburger]] signed her for ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'' (1943), but her second pregnancy forced her to bow out in favor of [[Deborah Kerr]]. Determined to work with Hiller, the filmmakers later cast her with [[Roger Livesey]] again for ''[[I Know Where I'm Going!]]'' (1945), another classic of British cinema. [[File:Wendy Hiller, Boxoffice Barometer 1939.jpg|left|upright|thumb|Hiller, {{circa|1938}}]] Despite her early film success and offers from Hollywood, she returned to the stage full-time after 1945 and only occasionally accepted film roles. With her return to film in the 1950s, she portrayed an abused colonial wife in [[Carol Reed]]'s ''[[Outcast of the Islands]]'' (1952), but had already transitioned into mature, supporting roles with ''[[Sailor of the King]]'' (1953) and as a memorable victim of the [[Mau Mau uprising]] in ''[[Something of Value]]'' (1957). She won the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Oscar for Best Supporting Actress]] in 1959 for the film ''[[Separate Tables (film)|Separate Tables]]'' (1958) as a lonely hotel manager and mistress of [[Burt Lancaster]]. She remained uncompromising in her indifference to film stardom, as evidenced by her surprising reaction to her Oscar win: "Never mind the honour, cold hard cash is what it means to me."<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864590,00.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216221529/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864590,00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=16 February 2008| title=That Honor, That Cash| magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]| date=20 April 1959| url-access=subscription }}</ref> She received a [[BAFTA]] nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the domineering, possessive mother in ''[[Sons and Lovers (film)|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1960).<ref>{{cite web| url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1961/film/british-actress| title=BAFTA Awards| website=BAFTA}}</ref> She reprised her London stage role in the [[southern gothic|Southern Gothic]] ''[[Toys in the Attic (1963 film)|Toys in the Attic]]'' (1963), which earned her a [[Golden Globe]] nomination as the elder spinster sister in a film that also stars [[Dean Martin]] and [[Geraldine Page]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.goldenglobes.com/person/wendy-hiller| title=Wendy Hiller| website=Golden Globes.com}}</ref> Hiller received a third Oscar nomination for her performance as the simple, unrefined but dignified Lady Alice More, opposite [[Paul Scofield]] as [[Thomas More]], in ''[[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|A Man for All Seasons]]'' (1966). Her role as the grand [[Russia]]n princess in a great commercial success, ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1974), won her international acclaim and the [[Evening Standard British Film Award]] as Best Actress. Other notable roles included a Jewish refugee fleeing [[Nazi Germany]] with her dying husband in ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' (1976), the formidable London Hospital matron in ''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]'' (1980) and [[Maggie Smith|Maggie Smith's]] emotionally cold and demanding aunt in ''[[The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne]]'' (1987).
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