Sylvia Scarlett (1935) on Netflix
Approved19351h 35mComedyDramaRomance
In Marseilles, Henry Scarlett owes gambling debts and must leave the country. His daughter Sylvia gives him her savings and poses as a boy, Sylvester, to go with him to England.
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Plot summary
After her mother's death in Marseilles, Sylvia Scarlett and her father Henry face the gambling debts that force him to leave the country. Sylvia gives him the money her mother left her and dresses as a boy, Sylvester, so they can travel together without drawing notice. Henry also carries lace stolen from the factory where he kept the books, hoping to sell it in England, but customs officers seize it and take his money as a fine. On the train to London they find Jimmy Monkley, the man from the ferry, in their compartment, and the three join forces for a series of con games that come to nothing. Monkley brings Henry to a London house where the housemaid Maudie Tilt works.
Cast
- Lennox Pawleas Drunk
- Harrold Cheeversas Bobby
- Peter Hobbesas Steward
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
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- After a disastrous test screening of Sylvia Scarlett, director George Cukor and star Katharine Hepburn reportedly begged producer Pandro Berman to shelve the picture, offering to make their next film for free.
- According to RKO records, Sylvia Scarlett lost $363,000, beginning a downturn in Katharine Hepburn's career that saw her branded "box office poison" before she eventually recovered.
- Sylvia Scarlett was the first pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, who went on to star together in Bringing Up Baby, Holiday and The Philadelphia Story.
- Cary Grant played a dashing rogue with a Cockney accent in Sylvia Scarlett, and it remains widely considered the first time his famous screen personality began to register on film.
