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    Sylvia Scarlett

    1936 · Comedy drama · 1h 34m

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  1. 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.

  2. 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
  3. Oct 15, 2017 · Hepburn already had an Oscar and four years of film work behind her when she took the gender bending role of the title character in Sylvia Scarlett in 1936. In spite of her Academy Award and prior experience, Sylvia Scarlett was the beginning of a long string of oddly casted and mediocre films which eventually earned Hepburn the label of Box ...

  4. Brian Aherne admitting his attraction to Katharine Hepburn, disguised as a boy, in Sylvia Scarlett. Director George Cukor and star Katharine Hepburn were years ahead of their time when they brought the cross-dressing comedy-romance Sylvia Scarlett to the screen in 1935. Though they would pay for their forward thinking at the box office, the ...

  5. Sylvia Scarlett (1935) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Katharine Hepburn (uncredited) Crew verified as complete .

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  7. 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 freely ...

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    • Comedy, Drama
  8. Jul 3, 2019 · Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor, 1936) Few movie subgenres fit as naturally yet uneasily into the queer canon as the cross-dressing farce. While it’s difficult to envision the span of even a loosely defined gay cinema without such altogether wonderful comedies as Some Like It Hot, Tootsie, and Victor/Victoria ...

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