Sylvia Scarlett

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Sylvia Scarlett

film by Cukor [1935]

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George Cukor
The films of the mid- to late 1930s
Sylvia Scarlett (1935) reunited Cukor with Hepburn, whose character masquerades as a boy and is taken under the wing of a Victorian-era cockney con artist played by Cary Grant. Because the film bombed commercially, Hepburn began to be perceived as “box-office poison.” Cukor’s next film,…
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Sylvia Scarlett (1935) reunited Cukor with Hepburn, whose character masquerades as a boy and is taken under the wing of a Victorian-era cockney con artist played by Cary Grant. Because the film bombed commercially, Hepburn began to be perceived as “box-office poison.” Cukor’s next film,…
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