Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
December 25, 1935Release Date
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
December 25, 1935Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Katharine Hepburn
Sylvia Scarlett a.k.a. Sylvester
Cary Grant
Jimmy Monkley
Brian Aherne
Michael Fane
Natalie Paley
Lily (uncredited)
Edmund Gwenn
Henry Scarlett
Dennie Moore
Maudie (uncredited)
Robert Adair
Turnkey
Lennox Pawle
l'ivrogne (uncredited)
Bunny Beatty
Maid
Harrold Cheevers
Bobby (uncredited)
May Beatty
Older Woman on Ship
Daisy Belmore
Fat Woman on Beach
Frank Moran
Minor Role (uncredited)
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Roy Webb
Original Music Composer / Music Director
Nina Borget
Minor Role
George Cukor
Director
Mel Berns
Makeup Artist
Gladys Unger
Writer
John Collier
Writer
Mortimer Offner
Writer
Compton MacKenzie
Writer
Pandro S. Berman
Producer
Joseph H. August
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 25, 1935
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Content RatingNR
Budget$641,000
Box Office$497,000
Filming LocationsMalibu, United States of America
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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. Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in large part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO makeup artist Mel Berns.
This film was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn, who later starred together in Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940).
Grant's performance as a dashing rogue sees him incorporate a Cockney accent and remains widely considered the first time Grant's famous personality began to register on film. (Grant used the Cockney accent in only a few other films, notably 1939's Gunga Din, 1943's Mr. Lucky and Clifford Odets's None but the Lonely Heart in 1944.) Cockney was not, however, Cary Grant's original accent. He was born and grew up in Bristol, which has a very different accent from that of London, where he only spent part of two years in his mid-teens working with a Vaudeville troupe. In the U.S., by sixteen, he began to attempt to sound more American to broaden the range of theatre roles for which he could be cast a decade before he ever appeared in a Hollywood "talkie".