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    Sylvia Scarlett

    1936 · Comedy drama · 1h 34m

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  1. 73% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 47% 500+ Ratings Audience Score After the death of her mother, Sylvia Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) decides that she can help her debt-ridden father, Henry (Edmund...

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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. 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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    • George Cukor
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    • Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
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  5. 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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  6. SYLVIA SCARLETT is perhaps most notable for recognising the typical ambuiguity in Hepburn's own character between her feminine charm and masculine behaviour, and realising it on film. It is probably the only film she made in the 1930s that fully acknowledged this aspect of her persona, and in fact traded on it to benefit plot and character.

  7. Extract of a review from 1936. Running time: 90 MIN. With: Katharine Hepburn Cary Grant Brian Aherne Edmund Gwenn Natalie Paley Dennie Moore. Sylvia Scarlett is puzzling in its tangents and...

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