Sylvia Scarlett Poster
MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Up 6,320 this week

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

A 95 min  -  Comedy | Drama | Romance  -   3 January 1936 (USA)
6.2
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.2/10 from 1,733 users  
Reviews: 35 user | 22 critic

Escaping to England from a French embezzlement charge, widower Henry Scarlett is accompanied by daughter Sylvia who... See full summary »

Director:

George Cukor

Writers:

Gladys Unger (screenplay), John Collier (screenplay), and 2 more credits »
 Loading+Watchlist

Watch it

Buy it from Amazon »
LOVEFiLM

Related Lists

image of title
a list of 919 titles by JohnnyGray created 09 Oct 2010
 
image of title
a list of 1,051 titles by abcj-2 created 6 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 1,092 titles by manix163 created 2 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 23 titles by JTJ4783 created 1 month ago
 
image of title
a list of 153 titles by cracking_runway created 5 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Pre-Order the Kindle Fire
Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Katharine Hepburn ...
Cary Grant ...
Brian Aherne ...
Edmund Gwenn ...
Edit

Storyline

Escaping to England from a French embezzlement charge, widower Henry Scarlett is accompanied by daughter Sylvia who, to avoid detection, "disguises" herself as a boy, "Sylvester." They are joined by amiable con man Jimmy Monkley, then, after a brief career in crime, meet Maudie Tilt, a giddy, sexy Cockney housemaid who joins them in the new venture of entertaining at resort towns from a caravan. Through all this, amazingly no one recognizes that Sylvia is not a boy...until she meets handsome artist Michael Fane, and drama intrudes on the comedy. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>  

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Edit

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Also Known As:

En förtjusande pojke See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)
See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Radio Pictures See more »
Show detailed company contact information on IMDbPro »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor System)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
See full technical specs »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Howard Hughes visited the set one day, landing his amphibious plane near the beach where they were filming. Hughes said he stopped by to say hello to his good friend Cary Grant but in actuality he wanted to meet Katharine Hepburn, whom he was fascinated by. The film The Aviator recreates this first meeting of theirs. See more »

Quotes

Michael Fane: [speaking to Sylvia dressed as a boy] "I say, uh! I know what it is that gives me a queer feeling when I look at you. There's something in you to be painted."
See more »

Connections

Featured in Kisses (1991) See more »

Soundtracks

"HELLO! HELLO! WHO'S YOUR LADY FRIEND?"
Music by Henry Fragson (as Harry Fragson)
Lyrics by Worton David and Bert Lee (1914)
Sung by Cary Grant and Edmund Gwenn See more »