Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Director:

George Cukor

Writers:

Gladys Unger (screenplay) &
John Collier (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

3 January 1936 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Disguise | Pursuit | Family Relationships | Scam | Chase

Cast

Katharine Hepburn	...	Sylvia Scarlett a.k.a. Sylvester
Cary Grant	...	Jimmy Monkley
Brian Aherne	...	Michael Fane
Edmund Gwenn	...	Henry Scarlett
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Adair	...	Turnkey (uncredited)
Bunny Beatty	...	Maid (uncredited)
May Beatty	...	Older Woman on Ship (uncredited)
Daisy Belmore	...	Fat Woman on Beach (uncredited)
Carmen Beretta	...	Woman (uncredited)
Madam Borget	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Thomas Braidon	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Elsa Buchanan	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Colin Campbell	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Patricia Caron	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Harold Cheevers	...	Bobby (uncredited)
E.E. Clive	...	Customs Inspector (uncredited)
Edward Cooper	...	Customs Inspector (uncredited)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt	...	Stewardess (uncredited)
Kay Deslys	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon	...	Older Woman (uncredited)
Harold Entwistle	...	Conductor (uncredited)
Gaston Glass	...	Purser (uncredited)
Daisy Goodill	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Robert Hale	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Alec Harford	...	Man Taking Half a Crown (uncredited)
Peter Hobbes	...	Steward (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten	...	Customs Inspector (uncredited)
Lilyan Irene	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Connie La Mont	...	Girl at Park Scam (uncredited)
Gwendolyn Logan	...	Concerned Woman (uncredited)
Nola Luxford	...	Woman in Bathing Suit (uncredited)
Elsie Mackay	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Ella McKenzie	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Dennie Moore	...	Maudie Tilt - the Maid (uncredited)
Frank Moran	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer	...	Park Scam Onlooker (uncredited)
Leonard Mudie	...	Train Steward (uncredited)
George Nardelli	...	Frenchman (uncredited)
Natalie Paley	...	Lily Levetsky (uncredited)
Lionel Pape	...	Sergeant Major (uncredited)
Lennox Pawle	...	Drunk (uncredited)
Ethel Rawson	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Harrington Reynolds	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Roger Roughton	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Violet Seaton	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
C. Montague Shaw	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Dina Smirnova	...	Russian (uncredited)
Pat Somerset	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Jacques Vanaire	...	Steward (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff	...	Purser (uncredited)

Directed by
George Cukor

Writing credits
Gladys Unger		(screenplay) &
John Collier		(screenplay) &
Mortimer Offner		(screenplay)
Compton MacKenzie		(novel) (as Compton Mac Kenzie)

Produced by
Pandro S. Berman	....	producer

Original Music by
Roy Webb		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Joseph H. August		(photographed by) (as Joseph August)

Film Editing by
Jane Loring		(uncredited)

Art Direction by
Van Nest Polglase

Makeup Department
Mel Berns	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kenneth Holmes	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Argyle Nelson	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Sturges Carne	....	associate art director

Sound Department
George D. Ellis	....	recordist

Special Effects by
Harry Redmond Sr.	....	special effects supervisor (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Louie Anderson	....	grip (uncredited)
Ernest Bachrach	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Muriel King	....	costumes: Miss Hepburn
Bernard Newman	....	costumes: Miss Paley

Music Department
Philip Faulkner Jr.	....	music recordist (as P.J. Faulkner Jr.)
Roy Webb	....	musical director

Other crew
Patricia Doyle	....	stand-in: Katharine Hepburn (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Radio Pictures (presents)

Distributors

• RKO Radio Pictures (1935) (USA) (theatrical) (as A Radio Picture)
• C&C Television Corporation (1955) (USA) (TV)
• Republic Pictures Home Video (1988) (USA) (VHS)
• Turner Home Entertainment (1991) (USA) (VHS) (for the RKO Collection)
• Warner Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD) (Included in the "Katharine Hepburn Collection")
• Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) (1975) (West Germany) (TV)
• Nostalgia Merchant, The (198?) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Turner Entertainment  DVD package design
• Warner Bros. Entertainment  DVD package design

Also Known As:

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor System)

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Spain:13 | Argentina:16 | Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating) | USA:TV-PG | UK:A (original rating) (cut: by 1 min 17 sec) | USA:Approved (certificate #1697) | UK:U (video rating) (1986) (1997) | UK:U (tv rating)

Filming Locations:

Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Radio Pictures

Trivia:

Dennie Moore's first film appearance.

Quotes:

Jimmy Monkley:Little friend of all the world, nobody's enemy but me own.
Sylvia Scarlett:Yeah, I can tell that by the look of you.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Kisses (1991) (TV)

Soundtrack:

WHO WANTS A KISS FROM ME?

Loved the Pink Pierrots!

I loved it when the characters became the traveling show. I thought I had read about Cary Grant entertaining in the English music halls (before he went to Hollywood?), so it seemed like he was such a natural for this hilarious scene. When I saw the characters starting to sing and dance, I was very happy. Cary Grant's character was having a good old time, and he looked like he was having a lot of fun. Katharine Hepburn's character was taking part in the hi-jinks, as well as her father and the maid. All dressed in their clown costumes made me wish there were more of these vaudeville frivolities. The makeup transformation of Katharine Hepburn into a boy is just fabulous, and the scene where she becomes a young lady for Brian Aherne is exceedingly convincing and lovely. She is just great at doing these chameleon changes.