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Sylvia Scarlett
Katharine Hepburn's transvestite role -- she is disguised as an adolescent boy in the company of her fugitive father -- is really not much more out of character, nor more unwholesome, than most of her early roles. Only slightly. The movie flopped on its first release, ostensibly because her fans had difficulty adjusting to her change of image; still, she certainly seems closer to Katharine Hepburn than to an adolescent boy, and the idea of trying to disguise Katharine Hepburn as anything seems utterly foolhardy. With Cary Grant and Edmund Gwenn; directed by George Cukor. 1935.
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MPAA Rating: NR
