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  1. Aug 7, 2020 · A romantic melodrama of gender ambiguity that swerves into screwball comedy and back, “Sylvia Scarlett,” from 1935, is among the most boldly idiosyncratic films of Hollywood’s studio era....

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  2. Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 American romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a 1918 novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor , it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s.

  3. Jul 3, 2019 · The film that best and most explicitly exploits her appealing androgyny, Sylvia Scarlett allows Hepburn to be one of her best selves. It’s clear that Sylvia—and Hepburn—enjoys being a boy.

  4. May 4, 2024 · It makes its intended genre entirely clear from the outset – there are versions of this story that lean into the melodrama and psychological thriller aspects more prominently, but they lack the elegance of the well-crafted comedy that Cukor is actively seeking when telling this story.

  5. Sylvia Scarlett: Directed by George Cukor. With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn. When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.

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    • Comedy, Drama, Romance
    • George Cukor
    • 1936-01-03
  6. If someone only had the fortune to watch the opening five or so minutes of George Cukor's 1935 film, Sylvia Scarlett, one would have taken the idea that this was more of a lugubrious, sad-eyed family melodrama about a father and daughter on the run.

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  8. www.thespinningimage.co.uk › cultfilms › displaycultSylvia Scarlett Review (1935)

    Sylvia Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) has been placed in a difficult position by the deeds of her father Henry (Edmund Gwenn), for he has been embezzling at the lace company where he works as an accountant and has recently been found out. On breaking the news, he has another bombshell: he is leaving Marseilles and going to England with a good few ...

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