Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, Brian Aherne
Synopsis:
A daughter disguises herself as a young man, the better to look after her father, on the run to England from a French charge of malfeasance. They set themselves up as travelling entertainers, but are prey to con artists and straight artists.
Review:
Surely an Ur-text as far as gay cinema is concerned, a fact that cannot have escaped its director Cukor as much as it did most of its audiences (including the Front Office, which had greenlit The Gay Divorcee the year before). The film was the second collaboration of Cukor's with the prolific Hepburn, and provides light entertainment enough until the Aherne character bogs it down in romance.
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, Brian Aherne
Synopsis:
A daughter disguises herself as a young man, the better to look after her father, on the run to England from a French charge of malfeasance. They set themselves up as travelling entertainers, but are prey to con artists and straight artists.
Review:
Surely an Ur-text as far as gay cinema is concerned, a fact that cannot have escaped its director Cukor as much as it did most of its audiences (including the Front Office, which had greenlit The Gay Divorcee the year before). The film was the second collaboration of Cukor's with the prolific Hepburn, and provides light entertainment enough until the Aherne character bogs it down in romance.
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, Brian Aherne
Synopsis:
A daughter disguises herself as a young man, the better to look after her father, on the run to England from a French charge of malfeasance. They set themselves up as travelling entertainers, but are prey to con artists and straight artists.
Review:
Surely an Ur-text as far as gay cinema is concerned, a fact that cannot have escaped its director Cukor as much as it did most of its audiences (including the Front Office, which had greenlit The Gay Divorcee the year before). The film was the second collaboration of Cukor's with the prolific Hepburn, and provides light entertainment enough until the Aherne character bogs it down in romance.