Cinema series "Camouflaged Genre"

Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor, 1935, 90’)

Presentation given by a member of the Cinema Club

Director: George Cukor Script Gladys Unger, John Collier, Mortimer Offner Music: Roy Webb Photography: Joseph August Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, Dennie Moore, Natalie Paley, Robert Adair, Bunny Beatty, May Beatty, Daisy Belmore, E.E. Clive.

Plot: Accused of misappropriation, widower Henry Scarlett decides to scape from France to Great Britain accompanied with his daughter Sylvia who, trying not to be noticed while helping his father with contraband, dresses up and assumes the identity of a man, ‘Sylvester’. In the boat they take to run away, they meet Jimmy Mokley with whom, after an argument, they decide to associate to earn easy money in London with swindly and fraud.

All sessions in original version with English subtitles, digital screening, with presentation and subsequent conversation

Free admission limited to the capacity of the venue