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Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film, directed by George Cukor. In this film, Katharine Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist who masquerades as a boy to escape the police. This film was the first pairing of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, who both later went on to star in Bringing Up Baby, Holiday and The Philadelphia Story
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Plot

Escaping to England from a French embezzlement charge, widower Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn) is accompanied by daughter Sylvia who, to avoid detection, "disguises" herself as a boy, "Sylvester." They are joined by amiable con man Jimmy Monkley (Cary Grant), 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 (Brian Aherne), and drama intrudes on the comedy.

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