Katharine Hepburn
Sylvia Scarlett, aka Sylvester Scarlett
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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.
A comedy drama romance film starring Katharine Hepburn as a girl who disguises herself as a boy to escape from France with her father. She meets Cary Grant and Brian Aherne along the way and faces various adventures and complications.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George Cukor
- 1936-01-03
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1935 comedy film Sylvia Scarlett, directed by George Cukor and based on a novel by Compton MacKenzie. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and other crew members on IMDb.
Sylvia (Katharine Hepburn) posing as Sylvester, rejects the advances of her father's new bride Lily (Natalie Paley) then frets about bunking with Jimmy (Cary Grant) in Sylvia Scarlett, 1936. Hosted Intro
After the death of her mother, Sylvia Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) decides that she can help her debt-ridden father, Henry (Edmund Gwenn), by dressing like a young man in order to move more...
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- Katharine Hepburn
- George Cukor
- Comedy, Drama
A comedy-romance film about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to escape from France with her father and a con man. She falls in love with an artist, but faces complications from her past and her disguise.
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"Sylvia Scarlett" (even though it doesn't have much in common with the very interesting novel it is based on) is a very good and surprisingly dark movie. The heroine, Sylvia (Katharine Hepburn), changes her sex and becomes "Sylvester" when she and her improvident father relocate from France to England.
